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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    OK I have been dragging my feet with the flock elimination.....Dawg53, I hope you read this because I have a few last questions and I think you have the answers for them (I have been stalking your other posts for info pertaining to my situation). I am so ambivilant about this. I am not opposed...
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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    Thank you all for your help. I've decided to cull. I searched for necropsy and mycoplasma testing options and maybe AZ is just weird but just to get a culture from the state lab was $90 plus I have to fed ex my chicken on ice halfway across the state. The necropsy option was $280 (plus I would...
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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    Thanks for the info! I have been waiting to see what happens and more of the birds are starting to sneeze so whatever it is, it is spreading. Sickie number one still seems quite happy and frisky. They all do. They are just slightly congested. They don't have eye discharge or mites and so I guess...
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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    So I have isolated the two sickies and am waiting to see what happens. If none of the other birds get sick is it safe to bring in more birds at some point later in the year?
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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    Thank you!! Very helpful! Will call both places in the morning : ) I did hear back from the state vet and they will not do it until I have had at least 5 birds die.
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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    Thanks. I called the state vet and was told they "didn't handle that" so I asked her to double check. Still waiting to hear back....hopefully they will be able to perform a necropsy on my little roo.
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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    They are fed organic layer crumbles and I supplement with greens since they don't free range. I give them vegetables and other scraps a few times per week but try not to give them too much so they don't have a wacky diet. I give whey from making yogurt a few times per month. They seem to be very...
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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    Thanks dawg53. So how would my chickens have gotten this disease? we have no other pets or livestock but we do have many wild animals in the area (pack rats, raccoons, coyotes, quail). If I cull the flock, will bleach be sufficient for disinfecting their coop/run? How many months should I wait...
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    Chicken sneezing, culling, treating...questions not answered by searching threads

    I have been reading about sneezing chickens on this site for 2 days now and I am so confused! CRD mareks allergies mites.........I am not sure what I've got here and could use some help. here's my situation: 4 days ago I noticed my silkie rooster was sneezing. Yesterday my EE hen was...
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    Silkies

    I can't speak to egg laying because my silkies are around 10 months and haven't started laying but they have been amazing pets. My 5 year old loves to carry them around and they will literally go to sleep in his arms while he cradles them. When I go in the coop they rub up against my legs (like...
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    Something pulled off my chicken's head!

    Raccoon? We have a coop with a 30" (i think) high brick wall. The upper part of the coop was welded wire. I found my hen headless next to the wall with evidence of a struggle and the wire was bent. So: something reached in and pulled her head off! So sad. So I put up hardware cloth and they now...
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    Can't afford hardware cloth!! What do we do?

    Just a note about welded wire: I had it and an animal (raccoon?) grabbed my chicken through the wire and pulled her head off. So now I have hardware cloth.
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    Hi from Prescott!

    Hello. I'm a new chicken owner. This will be my second year with chickens. I am addicted and fairly confident that at some point we will have 50 + chickens! ha ha. They are so fun! I have had a rough year with my ladies since we moved and lost some due to predator attacks but am looking forward...
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    EE Stopped Laying...Again. Stress?

    I know WHY my hen doesn't lay. But can someone help me figure out how to help her relax? My EE/Americauna is very susceptible to stress and she's had a lot of it lately! She has only laid for about 10 weeks of her life (she's a year old). We moved and then a coyote ate her BFF and THEN a raccoon...
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