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  1. naturemom

    Dirty vent and bloody eggs

    My salmon faverolle hen recently started laying eggs with little streaks of blood on them. I didn't worry about it because I know that normally happens once in a while. I've seen it before with my other hens. The trouble is, now she's laying really bloody eggs, to the point where it's getting...
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    Dehydrated pullet?

    Quote: I tried that-put her with the chick that one of my hens hatched this spring. They got along fine, but still when I put them in with the other girls they pick on her and she hides. The other chick is 2 weeks younger and much smaller, but seems to have some advantages: 1 she's been in...
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    Dehydrated pullet?

    I made the mistake of trying to introduce a single new hen to my flock. I knew it could be problematic, but didn't think it would get this bad. I've had to separate her a couple of times because the other girls drew blood. For a while I separated the main aggressor from the flock, and she did...
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    Transition from and indoor bunny to an outdoor one?

    I've had Jersey Wooly rabbits in the past and have been thinking about getting 1 or 2 again. We had indoor rabbits, but now we are sharing a house with my in-laws and they are adamantly opposed to having a rabbit in the house, so I've been thinking about making a rabbit tractor. My dh just...
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    reintroducing mama and chick to the flock

    Well, mama hen made the decision on her own. Yesterday evening she led her chick into the chicken tractor and they settled down in one of the nestboxes-the same one the chick hatched in. After 4 weeks of being housed elsewhere, I guess the chicken tractor is still home to her.
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    reintroducing mama and chick to the flock

    I have a 4-week-old chick that hatched under a broody in my chicken tractor. After it hatched, I moved mom and baby to a doghouse. Eventually I will need to move them back to the chicken tractor, and I'm wondering when would be the best time to do it. The hens have been able to see the baby...
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    Tylosin dosage for two baby chicks?

    We gave one of our ducklings tylosin last summer for a sinus infection. Dh has a friend who is a vet tech and he said to give 10-40 mg per kg of body weight. We put the duckling on a food scale, did some math, and came up with a dose of 2-8 mg. I imagine you could do the same with a chick...
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    Greener Pastures Organic feed recipes

    I use it on and off, with good results. Sometimes it gets too tedious mixing the food and then I order some from Countryside, but mostly I use whole grains, esp. in the summer. I also used the chick feed recipe last year and am using it right now for a chick and a broody hen. My girls are in...
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    Ronda's even LOOKS better!

    I've keep telling my family that one of these days I'm going to cook some of our chicken feed and serve it for dinner-and I mean it, too. It will have to be a batch that has extra millet substituted for corn, because I'm allergic, but otherwise there's nothing in there I wouldn't feed to...
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    Is she sick, or is she broody???

    Sounds quite possible that she's broody. Does she ruffle up her feathers and squeal or peck at you?
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    What not to do when you go on vacation....

    I had the same thing happen, only it was an adult who filled the feeder w/oyster shell.
  12. naturemom

    medicated vs. umedicated... what do you feed??? Why??? Poll

    Unmedicated. I don't take medicine when I'm not sick, and neither do my animals.
  13. naturemom

    Chickens and quinoa seeds?

    I feed it to mine sometimes.
  14. naturemom

    Greener Pasture's Farm Chick Starter Recipe #3

    It occurred to me this afternoon as a was taking the yolk of an easter egg that my dd didn't finish out to my broody and her baby, that it may not have been clear in the OP, but the eggs, milk and worms are a necessary part of feeding this way, and eggs are a good source of vitamin A. Also...
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    Our TSC is getting chicks in today....uh-oh

    Quote: A pet chicken is what my dh gave our older dd for her 2nd birthday. She wasn't responsible for its care, though.
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    Greener Pasture's Farm Chick Starter Recipe #3

    I don't need to make a lot-right now I only have one chick, plus the mom who will also be eating it. I get some of the grains out of the bulk bins at Whole Foods, some from a buying club (for people food), and for the corn I get locally grown organic corn meal. The kelp I get either from Whole...
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    Greener Pasture's Farm Chick Starter Recipe #3

    Quote: That's good to know. I have a new chick this morning, and need to mix up some feed for the chick and it's mom, and I was thinking I'd soak it. This will be the first time I'm using it from day one, since the chicks I got last year were a couple weeks old already.
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    Tomorrow is day 20. Would it be bad to peek under my broody?

    We checked this morning and there is a tiny black chick! Another egg is pipped but it's pipped at the wrong end and I think it's dead, nothing happening with the other 3 eggs, but I'm happy we have one. Today is my birthday. What a gift!
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    Murphy's Laws of Incubation and hatching...

    The egg that is so small you're not sure it's worth setting will be the only one to hatch. (That's what's happened here as of this morning.)
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    Tomorrow is day 20. Would it be bad to peek under my broody?

    I took a quick peek under her this morning, and saw a pip! My concern about confining her to the nestbox was more for her sake than the babies, because I was not feeling confident that any would hatch and didn't want to shut her in on Thursday and then have her in there for several days to see...
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