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    Moles... harmful to chickens?

    Positive, it's been happening at night when the hens are inside
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    Moles... harmful to chickens?

    Do moles like hen food? I have had piles of soil inside the hen house and a hollow dug underneath, with piles of soil just outside the house too, There are no actual holes around it which makes me think its not a rat. I did notice one of the corner vent holes had been elongated from a small...
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    Eye discharge

    OK will get some
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    Eye discharge

    Ok so I can get Terramycin from Ebay UK, you mentioned that earlier yes?
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    Eye discharge

    Can this be used...
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    Eye discharge

    Can these be bought in the UK? EDIT, no they aren’t available in UK.
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    Eye discharge

    One of my silver Wyandotte’s keeps getting a “crusty deposit on her right eye. It causes the eye to stay closed,it has happened numerous times and sometimes we catch her and clean it using a cotton wool pad and warm water. Obviously this is not ideal as she gets very distressed and needless to...
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    Crusty eyelid

    I am in the UK can that be got over here?
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    Crusty eyelid

    One of our a Wyandottes has a crusty eyelid and the eye is closed and seems swollen, she gets this quite often but normally a wipe with a cotton pad soaked in warm water removes it,not this time. Anyone advise other than the vet?
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    Broody

    Thanks ,will try the cool water trick as don't have a dog crate. The nearest I have is a cat carrier.
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    Broody

    How do I stop one with broody behaviour? She has been in nest box day after day, all day for 3 weeks now. I keep,taking her out, but she goes back eventually.
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    I have laid Miranda to rest in the woods near where her sister is buried
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    Morning all, old Miranda passed away peacefully overnight, sad, but saves me having to do the necessary. Up until yesterday she was still eating happily and taking treats, she has had 3 more happy weeks than what she would have had if I had let the vet have their way. Left with 2 now, that were...
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    Yes I know she will.
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    I have been out for a while come back and she had made her way into the garden and was sitting sunbathing. She wolfed down some layers pellets from my daugjter's hand, scoffed some courgette and 2 cherries from my hand and is now sitting enjoying the sun again. As she is happy I will let her...
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    Well folks unfortunately the time has come. She is letting me know her time has arrived, she can hardy walk now and is just sitting in the run with het head dow., Tonight. I will do what needs to ne done. I feel like sh1t afterwards , like Im such a horrible person, but I can:t let her go on for...
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    I get what you are saying, but she is still eating, she was first to the food this morning, still goes for treats of bread, crumbs and strawberry tops.
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    Not a Speckled Sussex, it’s a Light Sussex and the others are Speckled . She is really poorly now, and can hardly walk, she does manage to get around a bit, but doesn’t look like a hen at all, she stands with her @rse down like a bird of prey sitting on a perch, and she is soooo skinny.That...
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    She is still with us, her @rse is manky again, and she spends a lot of the day just sitting. My daughter said she read a drop of molasses with water can cure constipation in hens, our local shop sells date or pomegranate molasses, which should I get, or is it not the right stuff to get?
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    White mess on hen’s backside

    Well the old girl has been ok today, had a bit roam round the garden with the others. She has been eatinv ok, I sprinkled some layer pellets on the grass and she went straight for them, and has had a couple of cherries. Sometimes vets ate wrong
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