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    Curled toe babe

    That's great! Mine is doing much better as well! His toes are much straighter than before, but not completely yet. His feet have been taped for a week, so I'm just gonna tape them up another week and see how he progresses. :) I also switched from bandaging tape to vetwrap for his hobbles...
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    HELP! What is the right place to inject my hen?

    It was a pretty regular occurrence for the vet I worked for to flush traumatic and surgical wounds with penicillin. However, it is not a very broad-spectrum antibiotic, and tissue permeability isn't great. Staph aureus, which is a prevalent source of infection in chickens, is particularly...
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    Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

    It looks really cozy! :)
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    Curled toe babe

    Did you ever sort your baby's gait problem out? Could he have been reluctant to walk because he had no traction? I ask because I picked up a d'Uccle from TSC and just now noticed he's got some toe curl. But it's only the one toe on the outside of each foot. He was getting around fine at...
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    Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

    What a clever doggo! <3
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    Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

    She's not the least bit obsessed about carrying things in her mouth... lol She doesn't smile, either.... And she's NEVER greedy with her sister!
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    Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

    Yes. Mind you, she's laying less and less. Now she's barely laying. This spring she laid a total of 6 gigantic blue eggs. She laid about ten the year before that. And only in the spring, when the temperature's really really comfortable. I reckon if she'll stop entirely in another year or...
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    Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

    To me, this is not so farfetched. I actually do keep a chimnea in my run as a nesting box, and it works great! My old girls love it, especially my 10 year old EE who can't get around so well anymore.
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    Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

    Well, since I didn't have time to react to take a picture, my black hen totally did not lay a random egg in the middle of my yard. And I totally did not discover it, because my pit bull totally didn't pick it up and bring it to me. There was no look on her face that suggested she was thinking...
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    Crushed Chocolate to Chickens?Crushed Granola/Cereal Bars to Chicken?

    Really, sugar's not got much to do with it. Cocoa itself contains a chemical that can make most animals' heart rates skyrocket and damage their kidneys. Our own metabolisms are different when it comes to chocolate.
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    Crushed Chocolate to Chickens?Crushed Granola/Cereal Bars to Chicken?

    Mind you, I'm not arguing. I hope I haven't been doing an awful thing, because I've been feeding my birds mandarins for years, and they love them. o.o Thankfully, they haven't been having the issues described in the article. In fact, they look S3XY.
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    Crushed Chocolate to Chickens?Crushed Granola/Cereal Bars to Chicken?

    I think it's probably just best to assume chocolate is one of those things that's bad for pretty much everything but primates. That being said, my chickens DO LOVE multigrain cheerios! Can't go too far wrong with those, if you're just giving them as a treat. :)
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    Silkie color question

    Adorable. That's what I call her. <3 :D
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    Grisly Halloween Mystery

    Egad! Where do you live?!
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    Comment by 'petspoiler' in article 'Dealing With Roosters Roo Behavior'

    Yeah, if he's dropping his wing and dancing around you, he thinks you're HAWT! ;D
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