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    Poor Egg Condition

    We have been giving our hens (no roosters) 17% layer pellets, we switched to pellets from crumble when they started laying eggs, now that the eggs have been dropping off, and the hens are almost a year and a half, we will start switching to 18% (all non-GMO) layer pellets. They have access to a...
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    Poor Egg Condition

    I'm on Vancouver Island in BC. My chickens are a year old now and we have just started feeding them 18%, up from 17% (all non-GMO). I've never had an issue with egg yolks. The only supplement that our chickens get is a nice grassy field in the afternoon; but no scraps.
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    cleaning poopy vent area

    My hens have everything they could possibly need to be healthy and happy; so I'm not sure how she got to be so badly poopy. I have 36 hens, and none of them have ever been this bad. I mean, it was so bad she could hardly move. It must have been painful for her. I was thinking of some kind of...
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    cleaning poopy vent area

    One of my girls has some hardened poop around her vent that is difficult to clean. I have washed the area, and gotten rid of most of the poop; but there are bits still stuck to the shaft of some feathers that I'm having trouble cleaning off. I don't want to stress her out too much, so I'm...
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    Do you count your chickens before bed?

    We have trained our 4 teenage grandchildren to head count and close up the coop. We have 30 new girls; so sometimes there are 1 or 2 that haven't figured out the routine yet and are hiding somewhere outside. In our last group of hens we had several completely disappear, one was attacked by a...
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    Controlling sparrows they spread disease and lice.

    I too have a problem with wild birds; but am dumbfounded as to how I can solve the problem. We have a row of Hawthorn, wild rose and Pacific Willow that are growing next to my chicken coop and free ranging areas and there must be hundreds of all kinds of small birds living there. The major...
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