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    Egg bound... Or worse

    Hi all One of my girls is really poorly. She's a black star and she's a big girl (we chose her cos she's huge) A few days ago I noticed her being a bit more sedentary than usual. And by the way she is by far the laziest hen I have ever seen on a good day. Anyway I saw her in the old tail...
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    Ill chook, liquid poo, no apatite... No eggs

    Hi all Here is today's poop update This morning I was treated to two little poops like that in her cage. She has been following me around the garden most of yesterday and so far all day today eating grass, bugs and most of all lots an lots of worms !! (I've been digging post holes for a new...
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    Ill chook, liquid poo, no apatite... No eggs

    I have only treated for Coccidosis so far. Also she had a bowl of grain, and each day bowl of mushed up bold egg (with shell an all) mixed with yogurt. I hope dhe turns round, she is very thin and weighs in a 1.4kg tho I didn't weigh her before she was I'll so have nothing to compare to...
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    Ill chook, liquid poo, no apatite... No eggs

    Hi all, after three days of treatment here is a poop update. Does this look like she's on the mend ? Hope you weren't about I eat :)
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    Ill chook, liquid poo, no apatite... No eggs

    Thanks everybody, lots of good information there ! So i went to a vet today and picked up some Métoxyl (sulfadimethoxine). I also have some Flagyl (metronidazole) that i keep for our rabbits. I have started the metoxyl treatment, do you think i can start the antibiotics at the same time? I...
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    Ill chook, liquid poo, no apatite... No eggs

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    Ill chook, liquid poo, no apatite... No eggs

    I should point out. This particular hen is a typical red hen.
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    Ill chook, liquid poo, no apatite... No eggs

    Hi all One of my girls is sick. I only have 8 hens and its my first flock. It may be nothing but being inexperienced i thought id run it by all you experts. Symptoms. The following contains terminology and ideas i have only picked up during this weeks research in to this illness so if i...
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    Pail eggs

    Hi all Todays eggs were fine, yesterdays too. But a couple of days ago two of my girls layed practically white shelled eggs. I only have three layers so its easy to keep track. They have had no change, same food same weather ... Any idea what that was?
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    My chooks dont like pellets ! Also, no eggs :/

    Hi all Thanks for all this input. I have bought another brand of layer feed from the "other" suplyer (i have one farm supply warehouse and one garden center with in reasonable distence distence and eachs ell their own brand) Of the three birds one of them eats the pellets. She is the "newer"...
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    My chooks dont like pellets ! Also, no eggs :/

    Hi all As the title says my chooks dont like their pellets. I have made a feeder and filled it with pellets. First i put pellets mixed with with cracked corn but they just dug out the pellets to get to the corn. Then i put just pellets... They dug out the pellets looking for the corn that was...
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    Update, questions and help for a feather brain

    Hi everyone, there are a few things i'd like to wrap in to one post so here it is in sections.. Update I started this little checken journey in November when i finally talked my wife in to letting me keep chickens. I bult my first coop out of pallets and learned the hard way that this was...
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    Perma-Coop

    5.3 45 The coop is 5.5 sqf and the run is about 45 sqf aprox
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    Perma-Coop

    The whole thing is about 4.5m (15ft) long. I'll keep in mind about it getting ikky, the idea is it's there for a year, the other beds will be growing and "SHMBO" doesn't want me to put them any where other than "my corner" of the garden :/ I'll keep planty of hemp chips in there and dig it...
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    Perma-Coop

    Hi all I didn't get a lot of feedback from my previous post. Thank you though to Aart for your input :) So I decided to just go ahead and build it and try it as an experiment. Here it is, the "Perma-Run" on top of one of my 5 vegetable beds. it will stay there with the chickens in it until...
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