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    Bumblefoot surgery was hopefully a success!!!

    Thank you for the response. It makes me feel better knowing we did the right thing. I honestly felt horrible for having to hold our hen down and cut into her. We were soooo lucky that very little cutting was needed and it was basically as simple as popping a pimple. I feel for those people who...
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    Bumblefoot surgery was hopefully a success!!!

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    Bumblefoot surgery was hopefully a success!!!

    More photos. So grateful for backyard chickens.com!!! [/IMG][/IMG]
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    Bumblefoot surgery was hopefully a success!!!

    When My husband and I first got our chickens almost three years ago I immediately noticed one hen had a growth between her toes. It was very hard but didn't seem to affect her. She walked normally and the growth never grew any larger. It never grew any larger....until about three weeks ago. I...
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    Broody hen

    I have a silkie. She is about a year old. She has decided to sit on her "nest" all the Time. There are no eggs on the nest and she hasn't laid In days (she normally lays every day/every other day). I normally check the nesting box and pull eggs twice a day. I however was out of town and didn't...
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    Chicken has one curled toe?

    I have a hen who is about a year old (Easter Egger). Last week I noticed her exterior toe on her left foot is is curling sideways/backwards. It is not curling under, but sideways like a scythe (you know the one the Grim Reaper is depicted as carrying?). She is not having trouble walking. She is...
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    Mouse living with chickens?!

    Quote: I dont have any roosters because I am in a residential area. We are allowed to have chickens, and theoretically could have a rooster, but the neighbors would surely complain about the noise so until we move to an area with more land we are forced to live without a roo.
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    Mouse living with chickens?!

    So what are the chances of this....but I got the mouse in one of the traps!!!!! I've been dealing with this darn mouse for a month at least and as soon as I post something about it I catch him! Now I feel bad though because he is dead I wish catching this mouse was the end of my problem but I...
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    Mouse living with chickens?!

    I have put out about 3 different kinds of traps with so many different baits on them. I even tried peanut butter with some chicken scratch on it because I thought if the mouse was in the chicken coop it was most likely attracted by chicken food. The traps haven't even been touched though; as if...
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    Mouse living with chickens?!

    My thoughts exactly! It grosses me out because sometimes this mouse will run out of the coop and over our shoes. It seems to have no fear! At first I thought it might be sick and disorented and would die soon (maybe the neighbors put our poison or something?) but it seems to not be letting up...
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    Mouse living with chickens?!

    It appears that there is a mouse living WITH my chickens! There are mouse droppings on a ledge inside the coop....right next to where the chickens sleep. Every night when I go out to check on my chickens a mouse jumps down off the perch, the same perch where the chickens are sleeping, and runs...
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