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    Cocci? Please HELP!!! **UPDATED**

    Wishing you the best Loralei! Our flock had cocci at about the same age as yours, maybe a few weeks earlier. We caught it right away, and immediately began treatment with Sulmet. It worked great and we didn't lose any birds. Like silkiechicken says, be sure to finish the treatment---ours looked...
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    Warning about Flock Block and similar snacks!

    Not finger pointing---this was the diagnosis and recommendations provided by the veterinary diagnostic lab at the University of Georgia after performing a necropsy on my chicken and considering everything our birds eat. Their regular diet is Layena crumbles. They get an apple or two each week...
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    Warning about Flock Block and similar snacks!

    Hi everyone. I wanted to relate a recent unfortunate experience we had with a food supplement called Flock Block. Flock Block is a compressed block of seeds, corn, molasses, etc. (kind of like a suet cake) that you can put in your pen to give your birds something to scratch around, peck at, and...
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    YO GEORGIANS! :)

    Commerce, GA, about 12 miles north of Athens!
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    Will my chickens go in when it rains?

    The first time it stormed on our chicks we had to go out and carry them, one by one, into their coop. It was ridiculous. They were all huddled together right in the corner of the open end of the coop, being pelted by run-off. It was so sad. BUT, ours were only about 4 or 5 weeks when we let them...
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    The day I go out ..........

    Y'alls posts are funny! We found our first egg back in early October and were so ecstatic! But it was bittersweet---while we were in the coop that very morning, we noticed some blood in some poops. Coccidiosis! We began treating them immediately and then of course had to wait about 10 days or so...
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    Poke Salet (pokeweed) purple berry poo or coccidiosis?

    Well, after removing some of these pokeweed berries from above their run and getting the purple juice all over my hands and face and glasses, I went over and checked out the poo again, and it was most definitely berry-poo, not blood. I looked at it much closer and could actually see the tiny...
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    Poke Salet (pokeweed) purple berry poo or coccidiosis?

    I was wondering if anyone's birds have ever eaten purple poke salet berries and then the resulting poops made you think you had an outbreak of coccidiosis? We have several pokeweed plants that grew up from the run and through the chicken wire, and yesterday I blew some leaves off the chicken...
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    Mating question--polish roosters, regular hens

    Thanks BK. What about all those others you have? Will they "party" with your polish? (Excluding the cats and kittens and boxer.)
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    Mating question--polish roosters, regular hens

    We have a friend who has Black Australorp hens, and she wants two roosters for mating. We have two silver polish roosters that we need to get rid of, also two Auracanas. However, it seems like I've read that sometimes regular breeds won't mate with cresteds...anyone know this to be true?
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    Question about sleeping habits

    Great suggestion--thank you so much. Makes perfect sense! Shouldn't be too hard to get down. Once it's down, you think they'll start sleeping on the roost since that's what's there?
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    Question about sleeping habits

    We have our nesting boxes on one wall in the back of the coop, little ladder going up to it. On another wall, I made these great roosts for them, slanted out from the wall, bottom rung about 2 feet off the ground, each succeeding one a foot or so higher. Well, the birdies never sleep on their...
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    Mystery Chick

    He's cool! If he's a boy, you should name him John Shaft. Are those other ones auracanas? They come in so many colors. I see you also have what looks like a chipmunk, over on the right in the second picture. We had one too, and we named him Chipmunk, but now, 8 weeks later, he doesn't look like...
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    Show us your baby bird pics ! ! ! ! !

    Here's a sweet picture with some cool ambient lighting, and another of one of our sweet little hairdos. I've never posted a picture before, maybe this will work:
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    Thanks everyone

    My first post! I wanted to tell EVERYONE who posts here what a big help y'all have been as we have raised our 21 babies....they are 8 weeks old now and happy, healthy, and hilarious. We got so many ideas and suggestions and "things to look out for" and stuff like that just by reading answers to...
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