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    Hen with vent problem

    I have heard scratch as "chicken ice cream" so I understand and maybe I am guilty of making them happy but unhealthy in the process. They love warm oatmeal too so I can see them loving their food with water mixed in, Cutting down on the never ending ordering of scratch then. I just got in a...
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    Hen with vent problem

    I ordered the medication to spray on her butt and also an ointment to prohibit dirt from adhering and is said to keep other chickens from pecking at the area
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    Hen with vent problem

    Hard to read for sure, but thank you! I will do my best for her poor sore behind. I changed my mom's diapers when she was dying at age 96, so I can manage a chickens butt problems. Thank you for the link.
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    Hen with vent problem

    thank you for all that to think about! I have 4 feeders in the lower coop 3 trays and 1 hanging large feeder for 20 birds. I also have a feeder in the top section of the coop but it is seldom used. I give them food and scratch every morning in approximately 4 large scoopsk out in their run of...
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    Hen with vent problem

    I will keep her separated from the flock until I can see she is gaining weight and her butt remains less than disgusting. When the weather breaks, I will put her outside for the day or in the green house where she will be protected. I'd like to allow the injured hen to hang out with her. The...
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    Hen with vent problem

    She is young and I can't tell you that she has laid successfully yet or not. My younger hens have just started production. I need to move into the coop with them to keep a better eye on them. (not going to do that!). I read that the bone sticking out could be Mereks but hoping I am wrong...
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    Hen with vent problem

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    Hello From Oregon

    My name is Karen Clark. I live up river on the Southern Coast of Oregon near the community of Brookings. I have had chickens for approximately 4 or 5 years. I now have about 20 hens with too many roosters! I have three and two of them need to go elsewhere! They are all under one years old...
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    Hen with vent problem

    I recently went out to clip the wings of my chickens finding one hen who had a poopy butt. I read about giving her a spa treatment with warm water with epsom salts so I proceeded with that task to find the glob on her butt was an egg. Her vent was incredibly swollen and red. I applied fungal...
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    Why did she lay a very small egg today?

    I also had my older hen, Itty Bitty lay a small egg yesterday. Hope it is a hiccup. She is my bitchy hen not liking the new laying girls interloping in her favorite nest where she lays. Picture of egg (she is the only one who lays brown eggs) and then one of the younger girls in Itty Bitty's...
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    What age to introduce new chickens to existing flock?

    I have started leaving the coop door open to the lower screened in area where the chicks sleep. Bubba rooster and Itty Bitty hen come on down in the morning forcing a close togetherness to happen. I can't say that Itty Bitty is being more gracious, but Bubba now feeds very close to the younger...
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    What age to introduce new chickens to existing flock?

    Thank you for the confirmation that it will be just fine if I force the issue. Chickens be on notice that you will get along well enough to sleep together so be ready!
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    What age to introduce new chickens to existing flock?

    I ended up with only two of my original flock after a disease and then an over abundance of roosters that were fighting. We have one hen that is called "Itty Bitty for a reason and a studly rooster, Bubba. Bubba has remained partial to protecting, feeding and fertilizing Itty Bitty's eggs...
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    Advice for sick chicken please....

    It is now April of 2014, many months from when I last posted. I ended up loosing 5 of the 10 chickens I started with. I did them in before they suffered too much. I had 4 roosters with one little hen left; which wasn't a good situation as they matured. We ended up culling three of the...
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    Advice for sick chicken please....

    My sick chicken episodes have finally stopped. I have not had an instance for well over a month. Out of the original 10 chickens, I have six left. I am hoping to produce chicks next spring that are immune to that dreaded Marecks that they apparently had. It was suggested that I kill them...
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