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    Dog attack!! Help please!!

    thank you! i gave him some tetracycline water & raw egg... he has pooped twice now but pretty runny just going to keep him cozy and offer food/water every hour or so... wait it out fingers crossed!
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    Dog attack!! Help please!!

    thanks for responding... i can assure you we did try to shoot them. think thats why it drop my guy and i could rescue him. the other one is just gone... he can stand but pretty weak. other than the eye bleed no obvious signs of injury.... lots of missing feathers... normal coloring. im just...
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    Dog attack!! Help please!!

    2 big dogs attacked my flock this morning... one roo is gone :( the other is hanging on. I'm just not sure what else to do. I gave him a warm bath (and blow dry) to asses any punctures /bleeding. I do not see any other than his left eye was bloody and he's keeping it shut. He's wheezing and...
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    Please help hen

    I have a small silky mix that just yesterday started acting different. so I isolated her and found out that when I pick her up (but she normally won't let me) her croup just feels full and squishing and if I press on it then she starts vomiting out of her mouth all this liquid!! By evening...
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    Please help hen

    I have a small silky mix that just yesterday started acting different. so I isolated her and found out that when I pick her up (but she normally won't let me) her croup just feels full and squishing and if I press on it then she starts vomiting out of her mouth all this liquid!! By evening...
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    Sticktight Fleas!!!

    I know this is an old thread but I'm experiencing these sticktight fleas for the first time ever on my birds and Its kinda freaking me out too! We live in central California and I've never heard of these before! The thread was useful in the talks about DE, seven and Vaseline... I'm just a...
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    how do you know if eggs are bad??

    just found a random clutch of eggs all from different hens... i know that its at least 9 days worth becuz of the 1 EE green egg per day... are they all bad and need to be thrown out?? it has beeen hot about 100 daily but nobody has been sitting on the eggs....
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    HELP! Super Thin Hen...

    thnak you again for your help... i've kept her isolated today and in a cage tonite will see how her crop is in am... still very full this pm...the worming will have to wait till after trip :( will keep her seperate till we get back... hope she makes it!!
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    HELP! Super Thin Hen...

    thanks again! i'll check out the link :) ok my bird looks nothing like yours!! i thought she was a leg horn, mine is partridge in color with white ears, fold over comb.... btw her comb is not very red. i get the difference in types, and i will def compare to the siblings tonite... about the...
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    HELP! Super Thin Hen...

    thank you!! very helpful... hard to compare her weight since i have never been able to handle her since she was a peep! i have 3 and they are hard to tell apart... but i'm pretty sure they just got thru a molt... feathers all look nice right now.... since i have already fed her for the...
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    HELP! Super Thin Hen...

    i have a hen (2yrs leg horn) that i just noticed last nite how thin she has gotten... she has always been very unfriendly / skittish... last nite at lock down i took my head count and found her in a nesting box rather than her normal high perch spot... picked her up and was shocked to find her...
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    sitting hen got off her clutch after first one hatched??

    thanks! every new experience is a learning curve!! ok, i want to make sure i get this right... on a staggering hatch, you need to remove the 1st peep so that mama will continue to sit, thus continuing until all are hatched? or pull all the other eggs and put in an incubator? how sad :( i...
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    sitting hen got off her clutch after first one hatched??

    a friends hen was sitting on a clutch, one hatched last monday the other eggs were layed ramdomely after the first one was (by other hens) the eggs were candled and looked fertile... since the 1 hatched she is now off her eggs and they dont look to be pipping and eggs are cold now... is this...
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    no clue what i'm doing..

    thanks for your feedback... all is well and so is baby!! after trying to read every thread on hatching i decided to bring it in the house and put it in my bathroom sink with towels and heat lamp... i wa so concerned becuz it just looked so dried out so i took a rag an soaked in in warm water and...
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    no clue what i'm doing..

    FREAKING OUT... went out to check on junior...was doing fine earlier, pecked a hole thru and could see the beak and saw movement.... now about 2hrs later, went out to see progress and found mama sitting on other egg and junior egg gone, saw a wet spot in the bedding, started panicking and moving...
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