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    Pasty butt - cant get rid of it // Also chickens are eating the eggs!!!!

    Please help!! Any advice would be much appreciated.... I have given deworming, probiotics... giving a bath and cut the fluff feathers around my hen's bottom.... But it keeps coming back and looks like it is getting worse... she has a really bad pasty butt and after getting all of it of the...
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    Prolapsed Vent... HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Please help... looking for advice... my Dixie girl, who u have shared pics of on your page... has a prolapsed vent... what do u suggest for treatment? Honey, Prep H, both? Decrease food? Add greens? Try and stop egg production? Separate from flock? Am I missing anything? She is my favorite...
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    My hen is limping and it has been getting worse and worse!!! HELP

    I would like to try the anti inflammatory.... how much and what type to i give her?
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    My hen is limping and it has been getting worse and worse!!! HELP

    THis has been going on for about 3 wks.... she started a little limp... now she will barely put any weight on it.... She has stopped laying too.. which i am assuming is common when a chicken is hurt... I am not sure how she did it... I have looked at picks of bumblefoot and it doesnt appear to...
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    Hen or Rooster???? HHHMMMMMM Can you tell...

    I only got 1 of the Rainbow... I also have 2 Barred Rocks and 3 Rhode Island reds.... I havent found a lot of information on the Rainbows but here is a pic of one full grown.. And the one I have does seem to be the leader of the other 5..,... I am soooo hoping it isnt a Roo ... will...
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    Hen or Rooster???? HHHMMMMMM Can you tell...

    Me too... Thanks... anybody else have any information to pass along to a first time Chicken Mom?????
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    Hen or Rooster???? HHHMMMMMM Can you tell...

    It is a Dixie Rainbow.... and I havent found a lot of information on the breed either.....
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    How would you interpret this law

    This is what is written in the bylaws for our city.... the way I read it ... it is ok to have chickens.... how would you take it... § 147-7 Keeping of fowl or animals. Editor's Note: See also Ch. 65, Animals. [Amended 4-2-1979 by Ord. No. 11] Whenever it shall be a nuisance or menace to...
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    Hen or Rooster???? HHHMMMMMM Can you tell...

    We got them the first weekend in March.... But I will surely post pics again in the next couple of weeks... I have read things about if the feather tips are round then its a hen... have you heard that?
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    Will it cock-a-doodle-doo??? What do you think.....

    I have also read that if it has tail feathers it is a roo... is that true???? I am still learning... Thanks!!
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    Hen or Rooster???? HHHMMMMMM Can you tell...

    anybody.... somebody... any help is appreciated.... this is my first time raising chicks so I am still learning about all the different things... But I was really hoping and praying all of the chicks were females.... but they are from a straight run.. which after some research I found out its a...
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    Will it cock-a-doodle-doo??? What do you think.....

    Here is a close up of her/his head
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