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    Disastrous Broody - Time to Intervene?

    Only the one pipping is making noise. It has pecked a hole in the shell and we can see it moving.
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    Disastrous Broody - Time to Intervene?

    I have no idea. They're under the heat lamp and I keep turning them in hopes that they'll still hatch. I honestly thought they were all dead after being so cold for 3 days.
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    Disastrous Broody - Time to Intervene?

    We did but this is the only one pipping. I was trying to hatch babies for my mom so if this one survives, I'll buy it some friends.
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    Disastrous Broody - Time to Intervene?

    She's no longer broody. She was actually leaving the eggs a lot before we moved her. She was in the coop. We just assumed it was a snake because an egg went missing 2 days in a row with no mess, nothing at all. We couldn't find any other clue though.
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    Disastrous Broody - Time to Intervene?

    Days before the anticipated hatch we had to relocate our broody to the garage due to a suspected snake stealing her eggs. She got so upset she wouldn't sit on the eggs and turned her water over on them. A few days later we gave up & returned her to the gen pop. We kept the eggs so we could use...
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    Gross Abscess on chest

    My hubby had an even grosser picture. He's delighted in growing out our friends with it today.
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    Bad mite/lice infestation

    We went nuclear Holocaust with regular Permethrin and it did nothing. We tried spraying and powder multiple times. This stuff is incredible. You can see bugs walk through it and just keel over.
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    Bad mite/lice infestation

    Have you ever tried demon dust? I think it is basically a suped-up version of Permethrin. I got it at the co-op and it has, by far, the most effective thing we have ever dusted with. We dusted the birds, the coop, and all through and around the run. I couldn't really find any information online...
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    Gross Abscess on chest

    I'm happy to report that she is still alive today! I put some clindamycin in her water today and we will do wound care when we get home from work. It is truly astonishing what these birds can live through.
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    Gross Abscess on chest

    Y'ALL. I've dealt with some seriously nasty stuff in the past few years of having chickens but this definitely takes the cake. This is the same chicken that we had to treat for having a very infected dog bite. This bird either has 9 lives or is just horribly unlucky.
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    Gross Abscess on chest

    Check THIS out! We decided to treat our girls for mites today because we periodically struggle with them. When I picked up my lavender orpington I realized she had bumblefoot. When I turned her over, I found this nastiness! It was actually very simple to surgically remove and my husband stitched...
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    Hawk or Fox?

    That's exactly what we thought. Scary predator because they're so smart!
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    does a scab on foot definitely mean bumblefoot?

    This post is exactly what I was looking for! We surgically removed 2 obvious bumblefoot plugs today then decided to inspect everyone else. We found SO many other black scabs (no swelling or limping) & started surgically removing. After 2 more tiny ones we decided surely they didn't all need...
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    WHY is this so hard?!

    No offense taken at all! I do take great care of them, I've just made dumb decisions over the years. Unsupervised free ranging & I had a second hand junky unsafe coop when I first started is where predators come into it. Worms & lice came when I bought pullets from the county fair & didn't...
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    WHY is this so hard?!

    We're in Wilson County . Maybe as well be the jungle with all these predators!
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