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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2012

    Hi Ron, Oh Good, I'm NOT going crazy! I started light from 4AM to 9AM everyday about a month ago and with the daylight hours, the girls are getting about 13 hours. With daylight savings time starting Sunday, I'm changing the timer to 2AM tonight. I guess I didn't realize that the hens (12...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2012

    i know what you mean! I started with (2) 6 month old RI Reds and 15 chicks last June. I was so proud of myself because all last winter I was getting 14-16 eggs a day! Then came Spring molt, worms?, molting, foxes and replenishing my brood! Right now I've got 22 hens of various breeds and...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2012

    My two year old Rhode Island Red Henrietta is the scruffiest looking bird I have ever seen! Between the white feathers and the naked neck she's quite the site!
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    Keep or Go?

    Well, decision was made. Sent them home with someone today that will try out a few new recipes with them. I'm sad because they were wonderfully comical, not friendly but ciuldn't take the hen stress any longer. Maybe if I ever get chickenless, I'll try them again.
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    Keep or Go?

    I have the book and it didn't cover any of this! I've separated them into a large dog pen in the run and they spent the day there today. Stressed them out, but the hens were happier. I'm torn with whether to keep them or not. I don't have any roosters because I hated how they beat up the...
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    Keep or Go?

    I got 3 keets about 2 months ago and love watching their antics. I had one female (found her dead in the coop last night, not sure what happened.) The two males are mean to my hens, chase them, pull feathers, keep them away from the food especially when they are in the run or at the end of the...
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    HELP!!! Lame chicken, green poop

    Betsy, how did you make outwith your sick chickens? Mine recovered and is still doing well. She's even laying small eggs now!
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    Just sat 37 eggs. Hatch date of Jan 12th and january 19th.

    Put 9 eggs into a still air incubator on 12/24 and I'll candle on 12/31 to see if anything is happening. These are from my chicks I got in June and they just started laying about a month ago. We'll see what happens! Anyone else a novice or any suggestions?
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    HELP!!! Lame chicken, green poop

    Hoping it's not my imagination, but she seems to be perking up now Still not drinking a ton of water, but little sips every so often. I replenished the plain yogurt that she was nibbling at with a fresh batch with some olive oil and parmesian cheese mixed in and she's eaten quite a bit of that...
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    HELP!!! Lame chicken, green poop

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7044610/Lame%20chicken.MOV is a movie of her walking yesterday when I thought she was egg bound. She's pooping today, so I don't think that was the problem
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    HELP!!! Lame chicken, green poop

    I saw the part about not digesting food and I've attempted giving her plain yogurt, but not interested in food right now I went to Blue Seal and they suggested Oxytetracycline HCI antibiotic at the rate of 1/2 t./gallon of water for her as well as the rest of the flock for 7-14 days. No one...
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    HELP!!! Lame chicken, green poop

    I'm new at chickens! My 5 month old Golden Wyandotte isn't walking right. I have 18 chicks now beginning to lay so I'm not sure if she is. Her vent is oblong and pale and seemed to pucker constantly when I hold her. I thought she might be egg bound, so I soaked her in warm water bath and...
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