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  1. Grenadianexpat

    Solutions for a hens puffy body please

    A little follow up. The chicken seems to be recovered. No breathing difficulties from around 3 or 4 days after noticing the problem, and it seems not to be swollen or ill in any other way. I gave it via it's drinking water initially Grapefruit seed extract, and then after a day or so added...
  2. Grenadianexpat

    Solutions for a hens puffy body please

    Hmmm, Not good. Legs not pushed apart, so maybe liver, I guess it's a give her some jollop, and see if she improves, or not as the case maybe. Watch his space....
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    Solutions for a hens puffy body please

    Thanks, I'll check out the link, but to clarify it was not her crop that was puffy, I've had a chicken with crop problems a good while back, and tried encouraging vomiting of the crop bound lady with fluids to loosen it up etc. But this puffiness is down closer to the legs, like its the main...
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    Solutions for a hens puffy body please

    I have a free range yard fowl which because of the tree cover I only spotted yesterday, which was breathing in a very laboured and rattly way. As the day progressed the breaths got shorter, and I figured I would find a dead bird this morning. I had her isolated, and gave her feed, and water...
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    Heart breaking day on the farm...

    If you have it all recorded with a police report, and the owner denies it, then they can't possibly have a problem when you shoot it, as it wasn't their dog.... right? Unless you want to inflict pain, which I doubt, then a BB gun is not the way to go. A cartridge gun fired at the skull front on...
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    Stray dogs

    Dogs like Foxes will just go berserk when the kill frenzy gets them. Obviously very distressing for you. Fortunately Chickens seem to die very quickly from shock, so hopefully the one that passed did not suffer too much. I would only make the comment though, that while I can understand wanting...
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    Black egg yolks...

    I understand that culturally America has a different approach to egg handling, but there is no way I am going to have a product that came out of a chickens vent which has a duel purpose, unwashed for weeks or months on end. I would much rather wash them, and refrigerate, which then halts eggs...
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    Black egg yolks...

    They look like eggs that have partly developed, and then just stop when something is wrong with the incubation. Usually if you shake the eggs from side to side (gently) at this point they slosh around inside. Also usually they stink through the unbroken shell.
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    Black egg yolks...

    One of the last posters in this thread at this time devised a whole long winded plan taking several days, and creating several enclosures. Now while this recommendation to use lipstick is off the wall, it was by a serious contributor, and the logic to it seems sound. Up to this point I haven't...
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    My Chicken has turned Carnivorous

    That sounds very low. The only commercially available feeds we can access are either 17 or 19%. Personally I give them 17% as I believe from reading somewhere that the higher rate might promote failure to lay the egg. It never happened with my flock, but a prolapsed vent wouldn't be nice and...
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    Hens not laying

    Living in the West Indies we have 2 seasons, and both of them tend to be hot, but recently we have had a wet season that has been very hot and dry, contributed to by Hurricanes sucking the moisture out of our air and depositing it on The Bahamas and America. The actual temperature difference...
  12. Grenadianexpat

    Do my chickens trust me?

    They don't see you as a threat or predator, otherwise they would scatter. So trust.... it looks like... love, that's a stretch. I have a large free range flock of different varieties, if they see me and the food trays are empty, or they are out and about and they think they are, then there is a...
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    Emotional support needed to kill mean rooster

    If it dies at your hands, even inexpertly as you say it is probably fine, although you do want to try to let as much blood come out of the carcass as possible. If it is a random death personally I do not eat it myself as you don't know if it is poisoned in some way, or has an illness that might...
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    Emotional support needed to kill mean rooster

    I try to catch the intended victim by skulduggery, feed to attract them, try and catch them in the coup so they can't escape, and finally if all else fails a .22 air rifle with hollow points to make the maximum impact, taking the head. Yes chickens are a hard quarry as they move in a jerky...
  15. Grenadianexpat

    Trimming beaks?

    Great, thank you for that helpful link.
  16. Grenadianexpat

    Trimming beaks?

    Hi, I have a hen which apart from having vision issues, seems to have excessive over bite. The top portion of beak overhangs the bottom one making pellet pick up difficult, and just a little painful for me when I hand feed her from time to time. The beak extends as a solid looking tip. I am...
  17. Grenadianexpat

    DOG TRIED TO KILL CHICKEN!

    Layers, and yard fowl... all of which are completely free range only restricted by the fencing around the large property. The Layers generally retire to the coups, while the yard fowl often times prefer to risk predation and live in the trees.
  18. Grenadianexpat

    DOG TRIED TO KILL CHICKEN!

    In response to your disdain I gave background information that explained that in a practical world where animals are raised for food, either as a by product or the main item, we can not all live in cozy cuddly chicken hugging idealism. I fully understand hobbyists and those that have elected to...
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    DOG TRIED TO KILL CHICKEN!

    You must have a super breed of chickens, Mine are certainly just above worms for intelligence. While individuals may have certain "personalities" they run on instinct not intelligence. Why else would a bird stand in a pile of food and then scratch it to the four corners of the universe. If you...
  20. Grenadianexpat

    Chick with bald spots

    Just a follow up, the sevens seems to have done the trick, the feathers are slowly returning, and there is no more head rubbing on the wings. As it was a "wild" yard fowl chick it probably got mites from a wild bird. The 6 varying age chicks were in a small mesh purpose built isolation...
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