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    2 year old hen lying on side the last two days, abdomen hard

    Guessing egg bound, but not sure?
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    Help! Not sure what is going on here???

    Please can someone tell me how long the fleas will stay attached to chickens after treatment? The chickens look better I think but they still have fleas attached - it's been 24 hours...
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    Help! Not sure what is going on here???

    Okay so I bought ophthalmic cream and put it in their eyes (to protect them) then drenched a cotton ball in the permethrin solution and applied to all affected areas on their heads. They even had them in the crease below their eye ridge- terrible. We then held them by their feet and sprayed them...
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    Help! Not sure what is going on here???

    thank you - I feel bad for my chickens... must be so painful
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    Help! Not sure what is going on here???

    I have 6 chickens. They are all in some state of moulting. I have had them for at least 5 years but I don't recall seeing this before. All of them have some feather loss and a lot of weird reddish scabby things on their faces and combs. It could be scabs from pecking but it is ALL of them. We...
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    Day 23 only one chick hatched on day 20, broody not incubator

    No I didn't candle, I was too busy and I also figured with shipped eggs it was a crap shoot anyway... they were pretty eggs though, I'm crossing my fingers the one that hatched is a girl...
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    Day 23 only one chick hatched on day 20, broody not incubator

    I have not seen any pips and I am on day 23. After the one healthy one hatched on day 21 (sorry not day 20 but I can't edit the title of my post for some reason), on day 22 one appears to have pipped but then died. I also picked up the eggs yesterday and scratched/tapped at them but did not hear...
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    should I throw them out?

    ...under the hen. The pet sitter hadn't even checked under the chicken who was in the nest box -just kept telling me that the hens weren't laying. ***arggh* Anyway, its been about 100 here daily, but the coop is in the shade..but can't tell when the chicken went broody but likely right after I...
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    out of town -chicken sitter scared of broody chicken and high temps

    She doesn't have chicks or fertile eggs, as we don't have roosters-she just went broody on her own. If the petsitter takes her off the nest she will just go back on. There is no way for me to break her until I am back in a little over a week. I believe I will tell her to put a bowl of water in...
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    out of town -chicken sitter scared of broody chicken and high temps

    Hi, I'm out of the country for three weeks, and we have one more week to go before we get home. We have someone house and petsitting, and one of our hens that I'd just gotten unbroody about two weeks ago decided to go broody again, probably a couple of days after we left. Unfortunately, the...
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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Hi, sorry but I don't have time to wade through all the posts on this thread today (although I have started reading them!) I have a jar of quinoa that is several years old (me and DH apparently don't like quinoa) but about six months ago it got pantry months in it and so I put the whole jar into...
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    weird sores on both legs

    One of my hens has really really bad crooked toe that did not respond to any treatment. It doesn't seem to slow her down (however I do need to trim her nails on that foot- you will see in the photo). I only mention this because I don't know if this could be related or not. Right now I think not...
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    Blue Wheaten Ameraucana? Pullet?

    Her feet are still terrible (and I think I will have to cut her nails on one foot because they turn up completely and never touch the ground), BUT she can perch fine, she is extremely friendly and smart and holds her own even though she is the smallest hen in my little flock and head hen tends...
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    interesting story

    When I was a kid I lived in the suburbs in Northern California. One day a white chicken flew over our fence and ended up in our yard. My dad thought it might have belonged to someone down the street who had chickens but they said it wasn't theirs. We never found out whose chicken it was so we...
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    UGH.. too close

    We live in the suburbs of Los Angeles near the WUI (Wildlife Urban Interface-where there is open pockets of wildland and lots of homes right next to it) and coyotes have taken to preying on the neighborhood dogs for supper. This is exactly what they do, they get a female in heat to lure the dog...
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    California-Southern

    Hi, I live in Sherman Oaks, my coop and run are in the shade and my hens have had no problems at all, even on really hot days. They are both Easter Eggers from Privett. Just make sure they have access to water, they'll be fine.
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    introducing new pullets to 2 year old hens

    I am just updating this thread - that's exactly what I did. I kept putting them up on the roost together, and they got the idea pretty quickly and were roosting on their own. I also changed the feed so that I was only feeding starter/grower and oyster shell on the side. So far, one of the two...
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    pullet squatting for at least three weeks but no egg? Should I be worried?

    the egg song is a good sign, I bet you'll have eggs pretty soon!
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    pullet squatting for at least three weeks but no egg? Should I be worried?

    UPDATE: She laid her first egg this afternoon!!! So that was 24 weeks and one day (and at last a month of squatting). yippee! Only problem was head hen was trying to peck her in the nest box while she was trying to lay it-her comb is pecked pretty bad so I put neosporin on it. Luckily I...
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    Comment by 'wahmommy' in article 'Vent Gleet aka Nasty Chicken Butt'

    Thanks Sally - really appreciate this, going to see if it helps my hen :)
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