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    serious head injury!!! What can I do?

    UPDATE! I took some photos and headed to my vet's office. Here's what he told me (maybe the advice will help someone else down the road)... Chickens have a very high metabolic temperature so they seldom suffer from surface bacterial infections. Use a non-sting spray-on bandage to cover the...
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    serious head injury!!! What can I do?

    Oh boy, I've got trouble. After about 2 weeks apart but visual to each other, I picked last night to introduce 2 young chickens (14 weeks) to by 2 existing hen (1.5 yrs). Under the cover of darkness, I put the new birds onto the roost in the coop with the door open to minimize any "encounters"...
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    rubbery egg mystery

    Hi, Everyone! I'm new to this forum and new to chicken husbandry. I have a small backyard flock of 5 hens. Three are a year old and two are about a year and a half old. They have all laid really well, even through our West Coast winter. In the last 2 or so months, I have found 3 rubbery eggs...
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