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    Wazine 17 - How many days should the eggs not be eaten?

    We had pine shavings in the coop and replaced it with sweet smelling straw and she has got a lot better. She still lays no eggs. And when she does the shell is paper thin. Quote:
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    Wazine 17 - How many days should the eggs not be eaten?

    Ok.....According to this , I put 1 oz in a gallon. The Wazine 17. Are the eggs not to be consumed??? For how long with just treated once???? I please need some help here. Kind of lost. Thanks. T.S. Adcox : I posted this on other forums and repeat here for the rest of you. There...
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    One dead hen, 4 bare butts - blu kote?hotpick? pine tar?

    Where can you get the kind of pine tar to use on the hens hindys? At TSC? I have blue kote and if that not enough, I will go for the pine tar. Also, please tell me what BOSS is. I dont remember. I am located in northern Indiana. (We have a TSC located up here) Thanks!
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    My hen is doing better!

    I forgot to add---what is the best way to catch a hen and spray her? Whats the best thing to lure them to you?? Smart little stinkers!! When you get them upside down I heard they just give up. Also, do you spray (sorry I can not remember the name) where the egg comes out? I dont want to...
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    My hen is doing better!

    Miss Lydoa, At TSC dad and I bought some Wazine17 for worms. They may have worms. I didnt know they got it off of grass, and they also eat each other poo poo. So I mixed that in with their water and they are drinking already-Yea! and we also bought something like Blue Koteinstead its called...
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    My hen is doing better!

    My poor sickly hen! Sat. dad and I took all the wood shavings out, and put in sweet smelling straw, and I keep feeding them yogurt with spinach and add some corn meal and dad bought some pork and bone meal. She has really perked up! She has not layed any yet, but I keep them in my...
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    2nd hen dying

    What is BOSS?????? Yesterday i fed them a container of yogurt with blue berries and put corn meal on it, and it was all gone this morning. The eggs were bigger and the color deeper brown. I also am giving them garlic water for antibotics. PROTEIN What can I give the girls????? I think...
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    2nd hen dying

    What good foods are full of protein,besides meats are good for the girls? Quote:
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    2nd hen dying

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    2nd hen dying

    I just buried her. I have read about dieherra. So tomorrow i will take out yogurt, and blueberries and put some scratch on top. They will love that. My dad is unhappy and thinks its all my fault. Thats hard to deal with.
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    2nd hen dying

    Last week, one died, and right now another is dying. She had yellow custerd poo this morning. I do not know whats wrong, and my father is blaming me because he said we have no rooster, and the other hens are picking feathers. I can not get him in here to look at BYC being he is in his 70's and...
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    Hens being pecked too.

    That is what I told my dad it is not related to feather loss. I will have to measure the coop and let you know. Maybe we dont have it set up right? I am trying to do my best. Yes, a rooster will bring more problems. ???? At a loss.... Quote:
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    Hens being pecked too.

    I think what we decided today to do is get another Isa Brown rooster. That way the hens will stop picking on each other so much. The lady I ran into at TSC said they do better with a roo. She has Isa's, and they get along ok. She gave me a few pointers, and one was to buy chop. I bought some...
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    Growing grass in the run with the girls there

    I am thinking of doing this, I also have some old windown frames made up with that small square holed rabbitt fencing. I will cut that sharp twigs off the side and put them on the ground. Quote:
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    Hens being pecked too.

    Ny hens have been pecked on their backs. One Isa Brown, whom I call "queen bee" has no missing feathers. All the others have missing feathers. I lost one girl this week. She was ok, and one day I found her, huddled looking, back in the corner, eyes closed. She didnt lay any eggs that day. In the...
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    Growing grass in the run with the girls there

    Love your grass run. But I can not see clearly what kind of fence you have over your grass. Is it just chicken wire? Quote:
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    Growing grass in the run with the girls there

    Thats why I can not leave my girls out ether. We also have too many rodents and wild house cats around. Quote:
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    Growing grass in the run with the girls there

    I like the straw idea too. Just so you wont get rodents in it. Quote:
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    Growing grass in the run with the girls there

    I like the box idea. I can start one, and then follow with more! How far off the ground do we put the wire? Quote:
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    My heart is breaking

    YEA!! My girls's poo is all normal!!! That makes me happy!! Quote:
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