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    Ode to Old Hens... Pictures of the Seniors in Our Flock

    I'm sorry to hear of your losses, it never gets any easier. Speaking of house chickens they really can be great, make or buy a diaper and your good to go. Cru has a large indoor rabbit hutch with a perch and all the basics, and if the weather is OK she goes outside onto the front lawn with the...
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    Ode to Old Hens... Pictures of the Seniors in Our Flock

    Have you considered a heat pad? Either a low watt one or one of the horticultural style ones? I had Darla on a reptile one over winter because she went broody and lost half her body weight from trying to incubate an egg. And with Darla there is no chance of breaking her broodiness. So until I...
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    Ode to Old Hens... Pictures of the Seniors in Our Flock

    Yes I got carried away with stuff in the real world, and I see a lot of the byc stuff on the fb page. My time has been taken up with normal life stuff, health issues and ducks. I started with 3 rescue mallards in Sept last year, now I have about 30-40 ducks of various breeds, and they like the...
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    Ode to Old Hens... Pictures of the Seniors in Our Flock

    Speckledhen I am sorry to hear of the passing of your beloved birds, although I have not been on here a while and thus had a few pages of posts to catch up on, I can tell you that reading of them left me with tears running down my cheeks. Its never easy to loose them, especially when they are...
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    seriously injured silkie chick.. does it have a chance?

    that's a good idea, we don't have flock swaps here. im sure he will buddy up to something slightly different or even a couple of hens
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    seriously injured silkie chick.. does it have a chance?

    that's a real shame about the hen. I am glad we don't have foxes here. Hes looking like a fine boy and looks like he takes his job of daddy and now mummy seriously which is good. do you think you will get him another pullet/hen once the babies are gone?
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    seriously injured silkie chick.. does it have a chance?

    That's great that he recovered so well, and what a shame about his wee friend :( any idea what took her?
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    Day 21 bantam egg... no pip, peep, or movement

    Congrats on the broody silkie, My Darla went broody again.... so 5 times 17 months. I had said no babies ( its almost winter) but she was determined, I also had no adult working roo ( we had to put him down due to failing health and old age) so no babies from the eggs she was sitting on. I...
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    10-m-o female has never been "right", failure to thrive, now very weak, possible seizure, diarrhea,

    Good luck with the tablets, if not you may have to tube feed so she doesn't taste it so much. Im currently tube/syringe feeding a white silkie pullet who has stopped eating, not sure why she has no other issues, she eats enough to stay alive but not enough to recover have energy etc, so I know...
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    Day 21 bantam egg... no pip, peep, or movement

    Im sure she will go broody again, and hopefully have some chicks this time and fufill her dreams of motherhood. one of mine is broody again, 4th time in 15 months, its coming into winter here so ill have to break her broodiness, shes done 3 hatches and raised them (and another 2 that she...
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    Ode to Old Hens... Pictures of the Seniors in Our Flock

    Thanks, he certainly was and still is, I am keeping 3 of his daughters as a rememberance of him. That's a shame that Panda sounds like she is slowing down, It sounds like she is having a good retirement tho, and it is clear that she and your other birds are very well loved. Its a shame that...
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    Ode to Old Hens... Pictures of the Seniors in Our Flock

    Wow, they are looking good for their age, how is panda doing now? I recently had to put my old rescue rooster Brucester down. :( His exact age was unknown, however experts I spoke to/showed him to thought 7 was the figure ( he had a very hard life before I rescued him) . He started having...
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    10-m-o female has never been "right", failure to thrive, now very weak, possible seizure, diarrhea,

    What a shame that she isn't getting 100% better, Im sorry I don't know about the lump above the nostril, in reality it could be anything from an ingrown feather, acne/skin issue tumor etc. Also you may want to file back her beak a bit. That poop doesn't look good, once again im suspecting...
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    Hawk or other preditor

    Trim away all feathers sourounding it so they don't get stuck, keep it clean and wash with a saline solution ( such as lightly salted water or contact/eye solution. Keep her away from the others in the warm, she is likely in shock, if you can get some sugar water or nutri drop water into her...
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    chicken attecked by hawk

    They are amazing creatures and can live through some pretty traumatic events. A picture would help. Make sure the wound it clean, a saline solution can be dabbed on it, if it looks infected treat with antibiotics. trim any feathers away from it so they don't get stuck in the wound, and make...
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