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Sorry to interrupt this thread but I am having the same problem, only worse. We only have three hens, two are RIRs and the other is a mutt. The mutt is just over a year old and this is the second time she has gone broody. The first time, I put her in a very large dog cage with no straw or...

Thank you, gritsar. I don't have a need for it at the moment but I like knowing about different products and people's opinions about them in case I ever do need it.

I haven't heard about pine tar. Where can you get it?

Thanks for answering my questions, y'all! Hope Cracker lays an egg for you, Bedste!

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Sorry to hi-jack this thread, but really? Hens stop laying eggs after a couple years or so? Just curious!

I wash only if they're poopy.

Thank you both for your responses, it makes me feel better for them if that's pretty much the "norm". I will still check them for mites, just to be sure.

No, I haven't checked for mites. Would it be easy to see them, are they white? Or do you need a magnifying glass to see them?

About three weeks ago or so, I bought four RIR chicks from a local feed store and they said the babies were about a week and a half old. They were little fuzz buckets, very cute. As these babies have grown and developed feathers, they just don't....look pretty. I'm not one for looks, it's not...

We posted at the same time, kathyinmo. Is Blu-Kote the right stuff to use?

Please help!

Oh dear. I just went out to check for eggs and look in on everybody. Had some scraps to throw to the big chickens and they all filed out of the coop into the yard. Went around to where the baby chicks are separated and I was missing one chick. Looked and looked and finally found it over...

Thanks, lovinlife. He's been in this large dog cage all afternoon and right now when I look at him, he's beginning to get more and more frantic. The girls have been walking around the cage from time to time and one in particular seems concerned about her man, but I also notice that the young...