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    goopie bottom

    thank you so much for replying I so appreciate it. I wish I could take a sample to the vet we are having trouble just keeping gas in the car for my hubby to get to and from work and get our son to school. I will do another warm water bath and will try to get her to eat and will just keep...
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    Duramycin??

    I am so so confused here, I thought tylan was mostly a antibiotic for respatory stuff, if it is a gut or intestine thing will tylan help?
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    goopie bottom

    I have a barred rock hen that we got on the 25 of march. she is acting sick and I don't know what is wrong. she is panting, her belly feels swollen and warm and she had a bunch of poo stuck to her bottom, I cleaned her up and saw it looked like she was trying to poo or pass an egg as her vent...
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    worming my flock

    I hope this is the right place to post this, I want to worm my flock with ivermectin and I only have the paste, does anyone know how much I should put in a gallon or two of water so I can just do it that way instead of having to catch each bird pry open there beak and give them a pea sized...
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    egg yokes broken when I first crack egg's

    egg yokes ruptured when I open eggs, what causes this? seems when I crack some of my eggs the egg yoke is ruptured or breaks and I dont know why?
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    Mystery: bald tummies, egg production down- what could it be??

    my hens pull out fethers when they want to go broody, and even if they dont have eggs they can just set on the empty nest for a long time... are they eating and drinking or do they just set on the nest get up and grab a drink and go poo, a big poo would kinda conferm they are trying to go...
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    amaracan chicken stagering and acting almost drunk

    I have an Americana chicken that is staggering she had a drooping wing and I thought it was just do to the heat but it is cooler today and she is still kinda staggering not as bad as she was but still a bit. she is thin and did not want to eat. the only thing she would eat is berries. she...
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    Chicken Manure for Fertilizer

    I took some hort classes and two teachers had so many different feelings on manure of any kind one said he would never use it on veggies or even flowers unless it had aged for at least 6 months due to diase and contamination of food. the other teacher when I brought this up in his class said...
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    helping chickens in high temps

    we are getting some hot weather and we usaly do not get hot weather like this or at least not for a long time. my birds seem very stressed. I am keeping water full and wondering is there anything elese I can do to help them in this heat?
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    my french coper maran was told he is not breeding quality, or I was told he was not

    thank you for that comment, I am so worried abot mine getting sick that I try to limit where I get my birds. I got one from a friend one time and then had some get sick. we got lucky and when I had a couple of others checked they were OK. the one that got sick had the thing were the eye swells...
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    which roo to keep

    we have way to many roo's and we only have two coops. we have aprox oh maybe 30 hens and wow we have like 5 roo's we are trying to decide which roo's to keep, now the one coop is mostly a Cochin coop it has some small and large girls and then it has two frizzle bantam roo's very cute and one...
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    hen mating with hen

    it is so odd that these hens are mating each other. they have been best buds for so long they go and take there dust bath together and eat together and all that good stuff. I was just so surprised. when I pulled the Americana off she was so upset she just acted like I had broke her hart. we...
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    hen mating with hen

    I went to the coop to collect any stray eggs and make sure they had water this evening and I saw the weirdest thing. we have some hens that have been raised together since they were chicks they are about 4 years old one is a Americana and one is a road island red. at first thought the...
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    my french coper maran was told he is not breeding quality, or I was told he was not

    yes I am thinking I will get a picture and put it on line. now if I can just remember how to upload the picture..I would get one from the man who has the really nice ones but he has had trouble with merix and I am just terified of putting my flock even close to that. does anyone know can merix...
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    how often do you clean your coop?

    I will look into the deep liter method, our coop is a dog run outside play area and then the back side of the coop that they wont go into. I just like to give them fresh straw becuse the stuff they have gets so dirty looking. I dont know if it is really bad for them dirty or just looks that...
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