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    A Visiting Chicken in my yard. Please help me!

    Looks like you have yourself a very beautiful hen. She doesn't look like some "stray" but more like she may have wandered too far from home. You may want to check with your neighbors, or even run a lost/found ad in local area before keeping her. I know if she was my chicken, I'd be worried. In...
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    Washingtonians

    Here in Tacoma/Spanaway area it's been a mixed bag today. Sometimes rain w/black clouds and sometimes it clears up with sun. Poor chickens keep getting their exercise, running back and forth from yard to coop to yard to coop. Maybe that's why they are so skinny and has nothing to do with worms...
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    has anyone used wood pellets for litter?

    I have heard the wood stove pellets were "binded together" with some kind of salt or atleast some brands do this. I don't know for sure cause it was a sales person that said it. But the more I think of it and hearing here on BYC, I think I might opt out on the pellet idea. I do know when the...
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    has anyone used wood pellets for litter?

    Quote: Sorry, but we don't have a TSC in our area so I can't say if it's better or cheaper. The closest one is in California, I love my chickens but not THAT much. I sometimes wish we did have a TSC atleast for some of their prices in comparing the costs here in Western Washington to what I've...
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    has anyone used wood pellets for litter?

    Quote: I have heard from horse owners that horse pellets and wood pellets are pretty much the same. I wonder if putting up a flower scented room deoderizer in the coop might help with those smelly chickens?
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    newbie and not sure what to do.....

    Thanks all, but we went to another feed store and got the paste for horses labeled "ProMectin E Paste" (ivermectin paste 1.87%) before reading newer replies and as I understand it, this would be given as a BB sized drop inside the beak? This is in a syringe-single dose for 1200lb horse. And how...
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    has anyone used wood pellets for litter?

    Right now I have hay for deep litter method, but it has started raining and getting wet in the pen and I think the hay is getting moldy even though I try to keep it turned and fluffed. I did attached some tarps around the pen to keep out the rain but too late. I want to replace the hay with a...
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    newbie and not sure what to do.....

    Thanks again....guess I'll have to bully my way to get the ivermectin. grrrrr! Though I still wonder about Nugget with possible Ascites, egg bound, or just a fat lazy hen??? Does anyone know how long a hen can be egg bound before dying? Thanks for any suggestions.
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    newbie and not sure what to do.....

    Thanks, PunkinPeep. I'm not too worried (just enough to keep a close watch) about most of it all. But I had tried to get Ivermectin, but was told they only have injectable and pour on for beef cattle NOT poultry. Sheesh you would have thought I asked if eggs in the store were really laid by real...
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    newbie and not sure what to do.....

    Another thing I've noticed, is all the chickens will open their beaks and stretch their necks. Especially the rooster. Is this normal? or some kind of gagging, coughing or ??? Thanks again........
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    Newbie - what to plant for a forage crop?

    I've also heard "Italian Ryegrass" is a good poultry pasture, but I'm new also and don't know for sure and am really clueless about your area. sorry. I just know that my chickens will eat just about anything and everything, including anything green or greenish tint. (LOL)
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    Immpacted Crop!! Hen laborious breathing, purplish face! HELP HELP!

    I have a hen that is very similar. Much larger bottom half than the others, very grounded-not a flyer/jumper and will walk ALL the way around something instead and not much of a runner either, has yet to lay an egg, sleeps in the box not on roost, much larger crop that never seems to get filled...
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    newbie and not sure what to do.....

    Thank you for replying. I did dust them with Permethrin (active ingredient of garden/poultry dust). I asked at the feed store about wormers and was told the "Pig Swig" (piperazine) was the thing to have. I had noticed the "ivermectin" and asked about it for chickens and was told in no uncertain...
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    newbie and not sure what to do.....

    We have 3 red sex link hens and 1 bantam rock roo since Sept 14, 2009. All about 1 1/2 years. They have Purina Layena crumbles, grit, oyster shell and ACV water 24/7 in the pen-door is left open during the day. They are let out to free range all day, locked up at night. I give treats of whatever...
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    Have you ever been told you look like a celebrity?

    I've been told by a few people I look like Nicole Brown Simpson, but I wasn't sure if they meant before or after the tragedy.
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