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    Post Your First Egg Pics-Part 2

    Not my first egg ever, obviously, but Shirley the barred plymouth rock's first egg. Adorable! Her sister Laverne just started "assuming the position" so she should be egging soon too!
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    Is there a 'best' treadle feeder?

    I have a feeder similar to this, and I am always amazed how it can be outside through a thunderstorm and be bone dry on the inside when i bring it in at night. this thing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C27CYDH1?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_8&th=1 i've waffled on getting the grandpa...
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    Calcium bolus please HELP

    Now go drink a bottle of wine and mourn your awesome hen who lived like a rock star!
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    Calcium bolus please HELP

    For what it's worth, if you got 7 years out of an ISA brown you kinda hit the lottery. It sounds like she had a confluence of ailments, and while I agree vets generally dont know jack squat about chickens, it's amazing she lived to be that old in the first place. Respectfully, I dont think you...
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    Calcium bolus please HELP

    I'm a 41 year old man who put down my pet ISA Karen last week. I cried like a baby and buried her next to her sister in our back yard. A pet is a pet. You gave Dawn more love and security than 99.999% of all chickens to ever walk the earth. I'm sorry for your loss.
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    Tapeworm ID?

    Appreciate the replies! Feed store was out of equimax but had the feline dewormer with 23mg of praziquantel so i grabbed that. She's a smidge over 5 pounds so I reckon ill entice her to eat one of them. Thanks for your insight. I did not observe movement of what I believe to be tapework...
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    Tapeworm ID?

    Karen is a 3 year old ISA brown. She has always had mostly wet poops, with solid normal poops mixed in. No other birds in my flock of 6 have ever had this similarity. She recently had an impacted crop that took about a week of TLC, electrolytes, probiotics, massages, and worrying to clear up...
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    Comment by 'CrimsonIdol' in article 'Chicken Poop Problems Solutions Are Here'

    After all these years, I've finally found the solution. A hose, a broom, and a dust pan! Why didn't ANYONE think of that before?!?!
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    All good this morning. Overnight her poops were all grainy and watery but she popped out of the coop this morning famished and took a huge, normal looking dump while she was eating. She just ejected one of the babies from the good roosting box (there are 5, but you know, only one good one) and...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    So back to this thread! Old girl (2.5 yo ISA) came out of the coop a little drowsy this am. She ate, but not much and not with her usual vigor. I checked my Webcam and several times during the day she stood in one place for 5-10 minutes without moving, but without sleeping. I came home and she...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    For roundworm ONLY (no other types of worms) dosage is .23 milliliters PER POUND once, and then again 10 days later. So if your chicken weighs 4 pounds, roughly 1 millileter (.92) on day 1, and then another millileter on day 10. Not .1 milliliter. Make sure you're reading your syringe correctly.
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    Pullet attacked by fox and saved by cockerel

    I couldn't find one that did everything I wanted so I made one out of a cutting board, a d20 motor, and a smart switch. Have a camera inside so i can make sure all the ladies are in and i can manually control the door or let it run on a schedule. We have electricity running to the coop. If I...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    Thank you for the responses. I will not make any attempt to holistically prevent parasites in my chickens, other than keeping their environment clean. Should I discover worms, I will treat them with this...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    Even this forum would laugh at me if they saw the day-spa and condominium in which my chickens live. Their coop is air conditioned, and I clean it every morning. I clean their feeding buckets and change their water out every weekend. The homeless population in my city would be jealous of their...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    Yeah, that's what I'd hoped. I have a Rural King and they don't have anything worm related for chickens at all. They have a refrigerated section with some stuff for cows, horses, and goats, but nothing for chickens either in the medicine section or in the feed section that has to do with...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    Hello friends, I know there are a million threads on deworming, but my question is pretty specific. First of all, my chickens don't have any visible worms or problems. This is about preventative maintenance, though I'm sure at some point in the future I'll have to deal with actual worms, so I...
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    Help please

    Step 1 is to isolate the bird. Dog cage in the kitchen or the garage. Separate her from other birds and also from food you can't control.
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    Help please

    If everything is quiet do you hear any gurgling from time to time? Is she jerking her head/neck occasionally like a zombie in 28 days later? These are signs of sour crop in advanced stages, ive recently learned. That and a huge crop that's super squishy (full of liquid and gas).
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    Miconazole dosing question

    So here's a question... I got nystatin to treat sour crop because my wife didn't want me "doing what idiots on the internet say to do" and feeding her Monistat 7. So a vet came out and wouldn't give us anything - told me to keep doing what I was doing, which was feeding her eggs. First time I...
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    Sour crop recovery - to perch or not to perch?

    She's been eating her fill of scrambled eggs with an occasional diced tomato treat every day. I occasionally topped the eggs with flock fixer. This morning she made a racket and we took her out to the coop where she laid a real egg. We brought her back in and she started drinking lots of water...
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