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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    Hi everyone, this is my Barred Plymouth Rock hen, Bumblebee. She's a little more than a year old, has never laid an egg (apparently that's normal if the Rock is too fat, which she definitely is (or was)), and has always been a little out of it and unsociable. This, unfortunately, means that...
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    Hen stopped laying, put her on antibiotics, now she's off them, back to how she was before

    It was a complete surprise, but after a couple nights of injecting water into her throat and keeping her warm in a dark place, she perked right up the day before yesterday and has been getting steadily brighter and more energetic! She's back with the other chickens outside, and behaving like...
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    Hen stopped laying, put her on antibiotics, now she's off them, back to how she was before

    Discovered the culprit of the green droppings - we fed them spinach a couple of days ago, and it seems to be spinach residue staining the droppings. Otherwise, they're just white and runny. I'm keeping her hydrated, hoping for some improvement tomorrow. I'll be calling the vet back on Monday to...
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    Hen stopped laying, put her on antibiotics, now she's off them, back to how she was before

    That's what the vet said. I tried the scrambled egg thing - she wasn't interested. She seemed dehydrated so my dad and I injected some water into her mouth - like we did with the liquid calcium. To my knowledge, she hasn't been drinking on her own. All day today, she stood in the yard in the...
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    Hen stopped laying, put her on antibiotics, now she's off them, back to how she was before

    This is a last-ditch effort to save my young Isabrown hen. I posted a few weeks ago that she was sitting in her nest box a lot, and someone determined that she could be broody. Fast forward a few days, she lays a massive egg (double-yolker) and hasn't laid since. It's been about three weeks...
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    One of my hens seems to be commandeering the laying box in the coop so she can eat the eggs...

    Hi everyone! I'm new to the whole flock business - when I was a kid, we had varying levels of chickens until we only had one left, and that was quite a while ago. Living in Sydney, Australia. Back in November 2014, we got five more chicks in and my dad resurrected the coop in the corner of our...
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