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I've had them a good couple months now and they were restricted to the coop in the begining. So I thought they would figure out the ramp eventually. I have put food on the ramp and that helps them somewhat but they still won't travel all the way up it on their own.

I definitely read up on them regarding restricting their feed. they were not very mobile when I got them but are much better now. They move around easily and I move their food to different covered areas outside the run so that they have to go out and walk. My bigger concern is housing them at...

I adopted six Cornish mix meat hens. I am not intending to eat them. Just letting them live their life and they are laying eggs for me. The problem I'm havnig with them is they won't go up the ramp to the coop at night. We've adjusted the ramp to be longer, less incline and even has a...

I have a 4 year-ish old Cuckoo Maren who has a ping pong sized tumor hanging off her mid section. It's very hard. It's dangling and not hanging on by much skin. Any thoughts on what I should do besides the vet? (I realize I may end up there but just brought another chicken in recently for...

Thank you for your suggestions. I did only put the DE in the coop under the hay in the nest boxes because of the respiratory concerns. I never heard of the wood ash but I will try that. And maybe some of the other dust baths. Do you think I should be worried about the baby chickens around...

So I am still having problems with mites. They are not red. I see them in the daytime a lot of times on eggs that no chick is sitting on. And they are on the hens around the vent area. They don't look like the red mites and I don't see any clumping like the northern fowl mites. They are not...

Thanks. I did see some on one of my hens now though just a few. I guess I will start with some of the treatments and see what works!! Thank you.

So I have found these very small, round, black/brown bugs on the eggs in our coop. Not on every egg and I can't find anything on the chickens themselves. I've cleaned out two of the next boxes and laid new hay. Just did the third next box today. I have two hens that have been sitting on eggs...

I was thinking of trying to make something with all of our chicken feathers. Do you do anything to the goose down after you harvest it? Does it have to go through any process for drying or cleaning?

My girls are molting too. They look so pathetic! But seeing we have so many feathers around, does anyone know of a way to make down pillows out of all the feathers falling off the chickens? My mom said that my grandmother used to do it and used to lay the feathers out in the attic. We can...

well, my girls seem to be getting better. I did the VetRX on a cotton swab to the roof of their mouths (WOW, was that fun getting their beaks open!) but nothing came out the eye when I did it. I continued to flush the girl with bubbly eye with the sterile eye solution, put Terramycin in it and...

the Tylan at my feed store is labeled as an injectable. Is that still the same type to mix with water? Can I eat the eggs from the girls that don't have an issue? The two that have the eye problems have distinctive eggs! Should we just not be eating the eggs while they are getting the Tylan...

I got the sterile wash, terramycin and VetRX. i didn't get they Tylan yet but our feed store does have some. if I get the Tylan, how much do I give? The bottle dosages are for cattle and swine. Also, it was recommended to put the VetRX on a cotton swab and dab the upper roof of their mouths...

Is vetRX something I can likely get at a feed store? I did look up Coryza and really the only similarities so far is the puffy eye lid are and foamy bubbles from the eye. I would guess that all of the other symptoms could show up in the next few days but I'm hoping they'll get over it quickly...

So we have five female chickens that were a year old this past April. No roosters. We went on vacation last week and our neighbors took care of the chickens (and have had chickens in the past.) They reported no problems. I didn't notice anything wrong with the girls when we came home on...