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  1. kayri

    Would a severe molt cause staggering and inability to walk ? UPDATE!

    Just wanted to let everyone know that Adele is back to her chipper self- she still looks ratty and is probably not very happy with our sudden drop in temps- low 30's tonight, but she is no longer staggering and runs around with the rest of them. I never knew that a bad molt could do that to a...
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    Would a severe molt cause staggering and inability to walk ? UPDATE!

    Just an update, Adele might be doing a bit better. I hand fed her a scrambled egg/ day for the last two days and held water so she could drink it 3 times/day. Also gave her lots of sunflower seeds and oats. She was out of the coop today and walking around- still unsteady but not as bad as...
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    Would a severe molt cause staggering and inability to walk ? UPDATE!

    Thanks JJthink. I was hoping someone would say that. (I'll move this little hen right up into my bedroom! Only if my significant other was out of town. . . ) She is my favorite and mine are spoiled as it is, so I'll support in all ways possible.. . and will keep you posted.
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    Would a severe molt cause staggering and inability to walk ? UPDATE!

    Yikes, sorry to hear you don't think it is just the molt. I can't say there aren't poisionous plants around, but I've had chickens around the property for about 5 years now and I don't remember this before- once with a young hen that I nursed through a thing that everyone called Mareks, but she...
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    Would a severe molt cause staggering and inability to walk ? UPDATE!

    My 3 year old Barred rock, Adele, has always been the healthiest, most chipper chicken of the group. About 4 days ago she started to molt and it is the worst moolt I've ever seen a chicken go through. big patches of pink skin with tons of blue quills everywhere. Yesterday she was out forgaing...
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    DE Clarification

    The DE I bought from Hoeggers goat farm was white, but some recent food grade (or at least they said it was) was brownish grey. In addition to using it in the coops I found that it is good for getting rid of ants. They really don't like it and just go away (or die) I can't tell which
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    Who was the killer?

    Hawks often can't leave with a chicken because they are too heavy to carry away. In my experience if the head is missing or the skin on the head is missing, it is often a hawk, but I'd be surprised if a hawk would attack if the two dogs are around. I'm sorry for your loss.
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    How much calcium is too much?

    really, you guys. . . I do give them free choice oyster shell, but I guess that wasn't enough for my no-shell egg layer at the time. I guess since I haven't seen a no-shell egg in a while I'll go back to just the free choice oyster shell. . .
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    How much calcium is too much?

    So I guess I should cut back, how much is too much? I'm not worried about hatching as I don't have a rooster, but i wouldn't want to stress their kidneys. Thanks. Kay
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    How much calcium is too much?

    Way back in the spring I had a game bird that was traumatized by a fox and then laid shelless eggs for a few months no matter what I gave her, tums, calcium syrup etc. She went through a molt and now I think she is fine. I haven't seen any shelless or soft shell eggs from her in a while...
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    roo ran off

    I'm sorry about your roo. We do the semi- free range. I have a large electric fence around them during the day when I'm not home. In the summer time they are allright outside the electric fence because we are near the beach club parking lot with a lot of human traffic. In the winter time they...
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    Newbie lovin my chicks

    Welcome here! Sounds like you are in a great spot! Do your wolf hybrids try to eat you cats and chickens? Kay
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    Chronic weak egg problem (thin shells, or no shells). How to fix??

    I think ours is about $2/bunch and I only really give it to them in the winter when they can't get any other greens. Now they have the run of my yard, getting the peach, apple and pear drops, blackberries and all the weeds/grass they can eat. In the winter I would tie a bunch to the top of a...
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    Chronic weak egg problem (thin shells, or no shells). How to fix??

    My coop is really small as the girls are outside in their large fenced in area from when I let them out in the morning between 7:30 and 8:30 and dusk. I'm afraid the would spill it or it would drip. I should look into one of those drip waterer's. I am looking as to where I can buy winter kale...
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    Chronic weak egg problem (thin shells, or no shells). How to fix??

    Hi All, Glad to talk with you again Kerry and glad that Lucy is doing better and very glad that she is in the molt stage. I am also glad that I am not the only one spending hundreds of dollars on those pet chickens! I think the molt is the key. I am hoping that Ruby starts a molt soon, her...
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    Chronic weak egg problem (thin shells, or no shells). How to fix??

    Hope Lucy is doing well, my vet said that Lupron sometimes doesn't work in chickens because they are SO programed to Lay, Lay, Lay!!!!! It dodn't work for my poor old Midnight and we had to put her down (not for shellelss eggs, but as an internal layer). I've been giving calcium glubionate in...
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    Chronic weak egg problem (thin shells, or no shells). How to fix??

    Hey Kerry, Checked the local drugstore here, they don't have it, but still haven't had time to call the vet (when they are open and i am not at work). I have crushed up a tums every day into their yogurt/oatmeal. Haven't notice too much of a difference. Shelless egg again today. Jennspeeps...
  18. kayri

    Wild Cherrys. Are they deadly?

    if they were, I think there would be dead birds everywhere.
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    Chronic weak egg problem (thin shells, or no shells). How to fix??

    Hi Kerry, from the thread i was under the impression that the shell-less eggs were because of some physiological thing in her body, not really a lack of calcium. Maybe it is exacerbated by the lack of bio-available calcium. Whatever the problem, it wouldn't be set right until she molted, went...
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    Chronic weak egg problem (thin shells, or no shells). How to fix??

    Thanks everyone for the info. Thanks to BYC, without which I'd be crazy trying to figure out what was wrong with my girls!!! Does it make sense to worry that if she is really going to lay shell-less eggs until the next molt, which may be in the fall, that she could be getting too much...
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