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    Camplyobacter and Ecoli

    Our family has come down with both campylobacter and ecoli. It started with my 2 & 5 year olds and now we have it as well. We have free range chickens and the health unit is stating this is the likely cause. We are also having our water (well) tested. I LOVE our chickens but this has been...
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    Diarrhea after upping protein.

    The battery hens we took in had flock pox and a lot of them had serious feather loss. We started mixing their laying feed with a game feed to up their protein intake in hopes it would help them get their feathers back. About a week in and I'm noticing diarrhea poops from them. It looks yellow...
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    Feather growth on exbatt!

    Indeed! We've been mixing their food with a game feed to up their protein and giving them tons of snacks. This girl loves peanut butter :D
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    What is this chicken thinking?

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    Feather growth on exbatt!

    This girl was missing a great deal of feathers but they are now coming back :D
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    Flock Pox?

    Thank-you! So even if the spots don't look bad they could be in the middle of the break out? I was thinking it could just be nearing the end since it looks so mild. Is there anything we can do to prevent it from turning wet?
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    Flock Pox?

    We took in 20 battery hens. They have been doing so well and are really starting to act like chickens do! A lot of them have bad feather loss. Then last night I noticed some black circular spots on the chickens combs. Also some have black spots on their back's where feathers are missing. None of...
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    Chicken Names- whats your chickens name?

    Hot Sauce Ranch T-Rex Bertha Pulaford Olive Petunia Rosie Arnold Ms. Frizzle My 4 year old son named most of them :)
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    The Bantam Thread!

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    Sharing some pics of our old flock and ex-batts.

    http://www.huronbirth.com/blog/our-adventures-in-chicken-farming These new girls are already showing so much spunk!
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    Calcium Coated Eggs

    We just took in 20 laying hens that were headed for slaughter and in very tiny cages/ debeaked/ have massive feather loss. They are 1.5 and still laying. They have only been with us 2 days and I'm noticing all of their eggs are coated in calcium. They look identical to the picture in this...
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    Just brought home some caged layers

    They are walking today! I have put in a ramp/ ladder to the nesting boxes but they are yet to get off the ground. I do have other chickens and theses chickens are being kept separate for the time being. I noticed this morning some had been debeaked and also a lot were missing a ton of feathers...
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    Just brought home some caged layers

    They came from a barn not too far from us. They were clearing out their chickens. They are just over a year. The cages were in a line and attached to the barn wall. I've seen other cages for laying hens before but these were small! We put a dull light in there for the night.
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    Just brought home some caged layers

    We just brought home 20 caged layers. They were living in such tiny cages they couldn't turn around. We are planning for them to be free range but have just placed them in their coop for the evening. A bunch of them aren't even walking and the rest of them look drunk. Is it too overwhelming for...
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    Who's egg is this?

    I know this isn't the best picture but these are the 2 that we were told we light brown leghorns. We have 2 of them the same age and only 1 white egg. We have gotten all our chickens with quite the space between them so it's been obvious who lays up until now. These 2 have been laying eggs that...
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