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    Thin egg shell

    My three hens are all about seven months old, give or take a few weeks. They just started laying at the beginning of December. The Banty started laying white eggs on 12/2, and Faith, one of the Barred Rocks, started laying brown eggs a week later. Of the two BRs, only Faith was doing the hen...
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    Thin egg shell

    I have a D3 question: Can I open up a D3 capsule and mix it into the warm kitchen scraps I give them? I don't want them to OD, but if D3 is the issue, I am equipped with supplements for humans. Anybody?
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    NEED HELP! Advised to put down sick BR!!!

    I posted some photos of my banty's legs on LJ, and was given a decisive chorus of scaly leg mites (I'm so tired, not sure if I have the name right). So I'm treating them all with vaseline and essential oils of lavender, clove and thieves. I do want more, it's true. I'll give it a little while...
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    NEED HELP! Advised to put down sick BR!!!

    Thanks for your kind words. I did end up telling my daughter straight out that Tep-Tep had died, and how it happened. She took it amazingly well, actually. Much better than I did (but then, I was there; it's different). I'm feeling a little paranoid, though, about my other birds. My banty is...
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    NEED HELP! Advised to put down sick BR!!!

    Tep-Tep died this morning. I'm pretty sure it was Marek's. You can read the whole story on my blog: http://julietma.livejournal.com I'm just wondering what happens now? I called rodent control to pick up her body. Are my other chickens going to die now too? Assuming they've all been...
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    NEED HELP! Advised to put down sick BR!!!

    Great news!!! I took TepTep to the vet and he found she had a terrible bird lice infestation. He said he was sure that was her worst problem, that everything else was coming from the severe malnutrition and anemia brought on by the lice. But he said that because she is alert enough to eat from...
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    NEED HELP! Advised to put down sick BR!!!

    Thanks EVERYONE for the informative and sympathetic responses. I put her on a heating pad this morning and gave her vitamin and electrolyte solution when I got home a half hour ago. I checked her abdomen for eggbinding. I've never had to check that sort of thing before, but I didn't feel any...
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    NEED HELP! Advised to put down sick BR!!!

    Thanks. I'm just sick over this.
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    NEED HELP! Advised to put down sick BR!!!

    My hen is about seven months old and typically free-ranges around the yard, eating grass, bugs, whatever. I feed her layena, supplement with oyster shell, and plenty of fruit and veg. She is a Barred Rock - my very first chicken, a rescue I got in June - and she started limping 10 days ago or...
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    Limping hen with poopy bottom

    Things are really not getting better. Now she can't take weight on either leg. She can't even hold herself up! When I set her down, even on pine shavings, she topples over. A wing goes out, but then she's stuck, face down, wing out, unable to right herself. She was crying piteously on Tuesday...
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    Limping hen with poopy bottom

    Thanks. I have tried to examine her leg and foot, and can't see a visible injury. She seems to be keeping the weight off it, so maybe it will heal. She's only about six months old, so too young to be hobbling around like this!
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    Limping hen with poopy bottom

    My hen, Tep-tep, started limping yesterday morning. She seems to have pain (on palpitation) in her right knee. Should I just keep an eye on her for a few days to see if it goes away? Or is there something else I should worry about? She is a Plymouth Barred Rock, about six months old. We put a...
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    Oyster shell to encourage immature hens to lay?

    More Feed Store lore here, just checking it with you all. My hens are big, fat, beautiful Barred Plymouth Rocks, the eldest must be at least six months (she's a rescue, so exact age not known). The younger two are about four and a half months. None of them has a red comb or wattle yet...
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    When'd yours start laying?

    Quote: I'm totally new to chickens, reading this thread because the rescued plymouth barred rock I got *might* be near laying age, *if* she's a hen. That said, what IS laying mash? What is mash, anyway? What is the dry feed I get from the feed store (starter-grower at this point because it's...
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    in need of home made feeder and drinker designs

    This is a brilliant idea! Next time my dad comes to visit, we're building one!
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