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    Review by 'Merrykh' in article 'Common Mistakes Poultry Keepers Make (And How to Fix Them)'

    I NEED ALL THE INPUT I CAN GET so thank YOU and this community for helping me not completely lose my mind 🙌🏽🐥🐓
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    Chick with badly twisted leg...suggestions? PICS AND VIDEO

    Hello, it’s been years since you posted, but I’m here reading because I, too, have a chick with this exact problem. I was terrified of her suffering, laughed at by vets as I called everywhere looking for one to see her, finally having my vet agree to see her, telling me basically what your vet...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    1-2 a week from only my RIR but nothing since November from my Americana or Buff Orpington, but I still treat them like the Queens that they are!!
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    How much grass for 10 chickens to graze without killing the grass?

    I have just 5 hens and they ate ALL of my zoysia in a 10 x 15 ft area! It still hasn’t come back and it’s been a year. I do let the hens out every day into the main backyard to search for bugs etc but they MUST be nipping off the new grass tips as they come up. I have no way to let them on a...
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    Picky

    Thank heavens someone else is familiar with my stressful issue! I have the WORST eaters for anything other than plain feed😭 and anything I try on them must be put in some type of corralled situation for spillage or I end up feeding RATS and cockroaches at night 🥵😡. Rats aren’t taking ANY kind of...
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    for healthy birds , plant alfalfa for chickens to graze .

    Sounds healthy for the hens and I’d like to try it as an experiment in my small suburban plot!
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    An effort to raise healthy birds is required

    She is mobile but only slightly. She can associate with the 4 other ladies, which used to attack but now tolerate. I had brought in a new chick to be with her and even though there is 6 weeks or so between them, they have bonded. So I don't think the handicapped hen will be alone. I did take her...
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    An effort to raise healthy birds is required

    I have my first handicapped hen from the farm supply that is now 2 months old and she struggles with walking but still does some. She experienced splayed leg at about a week old, took 3-4 weeks to get that “corrected”, then perosis on one leg a week later!! My first time seeing and dealing with...
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    Review by 'Merrykh' in article 'The Chicken World's Worst Chore, culling the injured and sick babies.'

    I am so relieved to find your humane method of ending an animal's life without the usual horrific fear of their suffering. I have had to take many loved pets, dogs and cats, to the vet, making their last minutes so stressful, and me hating every moment that they would possibly be in so much...
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    Review by 'Merrykh' in article 'Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors'

    I'm starting with my first 5 chicks in YEARS and your essay has fueled my ambition and excitement to raise them your way! Makes so much sense!
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    HELP..why is my Hen clicking beak together????????

    If your hen is like mine, it's a clicking/clacking sound like two little boards or sticks hitting together and has nothing to do with her mental state. She can hardly get anything in her beak or hold on to it, and i mean anything. her favorite mealworms drop right off, her lettuce is flung but...
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    Help! Hen's vent covered in maggots. Treatment?

    I realize this is an old post/thread, too, but in hopes that I can get some help on this matter, I am reaching out here. I have 1 hen, Iris, with which I experienced flystrike for the first time and I was horrified for her! This forum helped me identify and treat her, so I am VERY grateful!! I...
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    Finicky Eater with Egg Shells Rapidly Getting Softer

    Thank you! I WILL increase the shell(from other eggs than hers). There was a time when I could just put the dried out, crumbled shells on the ground and she'd pick at it with eagerness. Then, she stopped. I am hopeful this corrects her problem.
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    Finicky Eater with Egg Shells Rapidly Getting Softer

    Thank you so much! It was Layena crumble that she was on and when I saw that she was not eating it, I thought I'd try the pellets to see if that appealed to her. There was so much crumble dust that I thought she wasn't able to pick up anything and lost interest, hence going to the pellet. She...
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    Finicky Eater with Egg Shells Rapidly Getting Softer

    I hope someone can help me. Forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong manner. My hen has always been a good layer. She is free range in my urban back yard for the last 3 years. She is so picky. I had her on Layena, which after a while, wouldn't eat it, and then I later found a recipe for a mix that...
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