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    Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

    Congrats on all your layers! It's so much fun listening to them...even our 5mth old rooster joins in lol (maybe he's confused haha)
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    Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

    I'm new as well and was like an excited new grandparent with their first grandchild when one of our RIR laid the first egg out of our 8 hens! She was 19 wks old and has given us an egg a day since then. Our black sexlink just joined in the egg song this past weekend and I'm expecting the rest...
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    MY BARRED ROCK

    I'm really sorry you had to put her down...Hopefully all the rest of your flock are still healthy?
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    HELP A Barred Rock - desperate need

    Bummer...so sorry to hear that! I'm def not looking forward to that day...
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    MY BARRED ROCK

    Hi there, I'm glad to see that you started a new thread in this forum and have a few more replies! Hope your Jeanie gets back to normal soon! I'll keep an eye out for updates :)
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    HELP A Barred Rock - desperate need

    From what I've read about similar symptoms you might want to quarantine the affected chicken and keep a watch on the rest...hopefully none of the others are experiencing the same symptoms? I was hoping another BYC veteran might have seen your post by now and responded with some suggestions...
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    HELP A Barred Rock - desperate need

    You didn't mention how long she's been this way... I'm new to keeping chickens, too and it seems like there are soooo many things that can go wrong! Be sure to search on BYC or just online in general for symptoms similar to what is going on with your chicken and try what makes the most sense!
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    HELP A Barred Rock - desperate need

    How's her neck/head? Any droopiness? I had a droopy necked BR when it was about the same age a few months ago and we put vitamin E in the water we gave her to drink out of a medicine cup. (Be careful she doesn't aspirate when using a syringe) When I looked for treatment I ran across chickens...
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    What age to start BOSS?

    so as long as there are small rocks/pebbles/sand available to them they should eat what they need of the grit and be fine with foraging and BOSS? They're coop is surrounded by pea gravel haha
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    coop bedding- what do you prefer??

    We dug the gravel out of the bottom of the coop but can't agree on what to do. This is a photo of the layout - it was all wet (not soggy) but I was thinking that if the area was dry in the morning I would just try the pine shavings and see if there is a moisture problem. If that doesn't work...
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    coop bedding- what do you prefer??

    You mean use cloth to separate the gravel from the shavings?
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    coop bedding- what do you prefer??

    You mean use the cloth to separate the gravel from the shavings?
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