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    Feather pecking in rescue hens

    Yay, it works. Thank you. I will read through this today.
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    Feather pecking in rescue hens

    That link isn’t working for me. What can I search for to find the page another way?
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    Feather pecking in rescue hens

    That’s an interesting idea. I wonder whether high quality fish wet cat food would work and possibly be cheaper than human grade stuff. I will have a look. I did consider feeding them their eggs but I have had terrible experiences in the past of a whole flock turning into egg devouring monsters.
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    Feather pecking in rescue hens

    The difficulty with changing feed is that where we live is fairly remote. A big farm about 15 minutes away sells the bags so it’s easy to buy the mash in bulk. Otherwise, it would be significantly more expensive and require a much longer journey to get the feed. They are ridiculously friendly...
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    Feather pecking in rescue hens

    10 rescue barn hens brought home a month ago. Several have been treated for respiratory infections (ongoing). Some arrived with good feathers, others looked pretty terrible. While most of the scruffy ones are growing nice new feathers there are some that are lacking around their necks and...
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    Eating Egg Storage

    I hope this is the right place to put this, I couldn’t find anywhere that it really fitted. How on earth do people store and keep track of the eggs? It’s the very beginning (barely) of the laying season in the UK and not all of them are laying yet but that is still 5-6 eggs per day. The eggs...
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    Jelly egg and tiny lash egg?

    They get a layers mash with virtually unlimited access (feeder refilled to top daily). I can look at the composition of the mash but it is the stuff they feed indoor barn hens as a complete diet, it contains grains, oyster shell and fish meal but I can’t remember what else or in what...
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    Jelly egg and tiny lash egg?

    Hi, I have been finding a lot of broken eggs in my chicken house recently. As well as getting some eggs with thin, papery or jelly shells. There are some older (3-4 year old) warren (uk term for hybrid intensive layer breed) hens in the group. Tonight I found an unbroken jelly egg with what...
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    Feeding Eggs

    Sorry I don’t know the exact answer to your question. I don’t think dogs can be fed egg as the main basis of their diet as it does not have the same nutrients as meat, that being said, it could probably be rotated in regularly. It sounds like you would make the food in batches, am I correct? If...
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    When to stop turning?

    I think its head may have been in a strange position. From the angle of this picture the comb is facing towards the camera and the underside of its chin facing the wall. Don’t have much hope left for the other two now unfortunately, also, not quite sure how to clean the stinky goo that has...
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    When to stop turning?

    This morning it had goo oozing from the pores on the surface.:( I have removed the shell so now it is a gooey wobbly lump. Any ideas what went wrong from these pictures?
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    When to stop turning?

    Just candled it. Unfortunately I only have a phone torch which is not great for super thick maran eggs. This is all the same egg. Feathers seem to be visible in one place and I can still see the air sac thought I couldn’t last night. Any thoughts?
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    When to stop turning?

    All nesting boxes were emptied and treated, all perches and the inside edges of the house as well as the outside. I believe they were northern fowl mites rather than red mites. They were very large and ran quite fast, they also didn’t cluster the way red mites do. So far, I haven’t actually seen...
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    When to stop turning?

    Thank you for helping. The hen was treated with a powder that I think is lemon eucalyptus based, she has shaken the majority of it off but there is still a coating on her skin and deep in her feathers. The chick was responding when tapped or squeaked too but has now stopped moving entirely...
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    When to stop turning?

    One was squeaking back when they egg was lightly tapped yesterday and is squeaking by itself today so I am thinking it has internally pipped and will hatch very soon. The other two are questionable, one is still dark but the contents now turn as the egg is tuned on the candler so is probably...
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