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    The Best Herbal Remedies for Chicken Ailments

    Hi everyone! I want to keep my hens chemical- and toxin-free. I was wondering if there are any HEALING herbal remedies or PREVENTATIVE herbal remedies that you use to keep your hens healthy? Here are a few of my questions: 1. What are your favorite herbal healing remedies for your...
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    Rhode Island Reds have weak shells - do yours??

    Thanks guys. I've been providing oyster shells over baking their egg shells and giving it back to them mainly because it's a "closed system" of calcium, if you will. I imagine the calcium gets recycled and eventually depletes over time. But I think I will try and still leave their oyster...
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    Rhode Island Reds have weak shells - do yours??

    Of my 9 girls, 2 are Rhode Island Reds. They both have incredibly weak shells, and lately I've been finding theirs broken in the nest boxes. (Luckily they aren't eating them!). All my chickens have oyster shells available free-choice in a designated feeder. And my other chickens (non-RIR)...
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    a good chicken magazine ??????

    Agreed on Hobby Farm's "Chickens" magazine!! I've found it to be really great (they've only put out a few issues: 3 in 2010), but I've read them all cover to cover! Again, not available for subscription yet, but it only took 2 seasons for "Urban Farm" magazine to get to a subscription, so...
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    Caught that dastardly Egg Eater!! Now what???

    P.S. If there are others, keep an eye out. I've found that putting up "curtains" in front of the nest boxes (with a slit down the middle for them to get in and out) keeps most of the nosy, egg-eating ones out. Out of sight, out of mind.
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    Caught that dastardly Egg Eater!! Now what???

    Agreed. Get her out ASAP. Watch her for a few weeks (even try leaving her egg in there to see what she does). You can try putting a golfball in the nest boxes - they peck at it and realize there's nothing good there. If all else fails, make a stew. You do NOT want that spreading to the rest...
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    WESTERN RED CEDAR COOP???

    I know I'm very late to the game on this post, but I thought I'd put my 2 cents out there in case anyone references this post in the future. Cedar should be avoided for chicks, but once they're adult birds, the cedar does not affect their respiratory systems quite as severely. I know several...
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    If you have a dog.....

    Two chihuahuas (one who thinks chasing the chickens is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and they chase back!) and one golden retriever/shepherd mix. The golden mix was raised as a puppy around the chickens and is as sweet as can be. She's more interested in eating their droppings than...
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    Sudden drop off in eggs - should I be worried????

    Handy Hen, it sounds like we have very similar flocks! I have a hen named Eleanor too (!) but she's a Black Aussie. I also have one BR and one BO (who's been my egg-laying machine lately as well.) I absolutely do find soft eggs laid in the night (or very early morning when they're still...
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    Sudden drop off in eggs - should I be worried????

    Sorry, I should have mentioned; they're only 9 months old, and we've only been getting eggs for a few months. They just started! Maybe that's why I'm confused by this change in behavior (they were all laying regularly for a while before the days got shorter and we don't put a light in the...
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    Sudden drop off in eggs - should I be worried????

    I have 3 Ameraucanas that lay green/blue eggs, and they were very heavily producing a few weeks ago (almost more than my brown egg layers), but all three have suddenly stopped. A few weeks back, I was getting almost one per day from each of them (and all my eggs were practically green!), and...
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    What color egg does your MCMURRAY "Americana" lay??? pics??

    hkwdesign - are you girls from McMurray? I've never seen a black and gray EE from McMurray! I know from reading another thread on here that hatcheries tend to have the same strain of EE and so have similar colors. Two of my EE's from McMurray are the common yellow/black (or gold/black) with...
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    They arrived

    Congrats on the new babies!! Take LOTS of pictures to show friends and family...they grow up faster than you could ever imagine!
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    The color of your EE's

    I have 3 EE's from McMurray, and 2 are the brown/gold partridge that appear to be very common (though they lay me beautiful green eggs!), and I have one white, similar to a wheaton gold laced, but her coloring is not very distinct. She started by laying a beautiful sky blue egg, but after about...
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    Yogurt? Good for them? What type?

    My girls LOVE yogurt! I've been giving it to them since they were chicks. Get plain, with live cultures if possible. Flavored is great, but it has added sugar, which they don't need. Sometimes I mix it with some of the feed to make a mash, and they really enjoy that as well! As with all...
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