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    Lucky needs help ASAP

    Hey, she's not doing very well at all. I've wormed her and so it's not that. I've wormed them all twice.
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    Lucky needs help ASAP

    Hi, everyone. Some of you will remember that I had a rescue chicken that was found upside down in a fence and had been eaten by the other chickens. Her crop has never been right and she's got dough crop. I've just finished treating her in a cage and just thinking we had got as good as it's...
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    Hen Injury Turned Green

    Oh, excellent news. I'm glad you've made her well. Thank you for letting me know. :)
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    Comment by 'LoveMyGurls' in article 'How to Cull a Chick with Kitchen Sheers (Scissors) for Squeamish People *slightly graphic*'

    I think quite possibly that is cruel and not a quick way to kill any animal. I've looked it up on the internet and it's a bit of a myth that they just go to sleep. They actually freeze to death which isn't very nice.
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    Should I keep bald Mary warm?

    I'm going to have a go with a bit of fleece tomorrow as I have some squares. They are cheap and don't matter if I mess up. I'm in iso so will have to guess and give it to my kids to try on her tomorrow. She's about to go to bed in her straw-filled coop soon so she will have the other three to...
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    Should I keep bald Mary warm?

    Hello, she came to me like this from a commercial farm. She's been badly henpecked. They have a coop full of straw and we've added extra. I have got a photo on another thread. She only has feathers on her wings and now her head. She's not been pecked at all by the others and my run is large...
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    Hen Injury Turned Green

    How did you get on with your chickens sore?
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    Help me indentify whats wrong in my chicken mouth: and object, specific disease, solidfied purulence...? and what should I do?

    How did you get on? Did she make it?
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    Should I keep bald Mary warm?

    I have too but I can't afford to buy one and I can't find a pattern to make her something.
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    Should I keep bald Mary warm?

    Hi everyone. I'm laid in bed with Covid and have not had a great week but I'm alive and today breathing has become easier. I've been told that my little Mary that I got as a rescue who has very little feathers is struggling with the cold as it's -1 here at the moment and so what should I do? Do...
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    Feeding with mealworms as the only protein source

    I've just read that and yes, that's for the UK and I see it's against the law to do what we used to do and have waste bins from schools etc, It caused disease in the farm animals and so the days of slop buckets from institutes was thrown off years ago when I was very young. I see what they're...
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    Feeding with mealworms as the only protein source

    Mines blind so if you don't tell her she will never know. 😇
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    How to make bedding for hen who sleeps on the floor?

    Mine go to bed in a little coop at night and I've lined it with straw. I've taken out the roost bar as none of them was using it and it was getting in the way. They go in and make nests out of it and seem to really like it. I'm sure someone will come along and tell me I'm all wrong for doing...
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    Chicken found alive after 1-2 months of being trapped

    My chicken was doing that head movement thing when she had sour crop and I fed her live yogurt with scrambled eggs for a few days and gave her a treatment of oral thrush cream for a week and it's cleared it away. I think giving chickens live yogurt is a really good thing and it might help put...
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    Feeding with mealworms as the only protein source

    I've been reading and reading this thread and do not any of you feed your chickens scraps? It has always been the done thing on the smallholding I was brought up on as it saved on money, they would be given any scraps. I give my chickens what is about to go out of date in the fridge. They love...
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