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    Comment by 'Banana01' in article 'Double Yolk Eggs: All You Need To Know'

    Had a double egg yolk recently and this article was fun to read. I think the 1 in 1000 estimate is an accurate assesment as I have only seen one like this in a while.
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    How to treat lice/mites?

    How old are your bantams? Do your chickens have a dust bath? I had to quit using hay where I live in a tropical climate because thats where the mites were thriving. Permethrin is for spraying the coop, bathing is something I never have to do. I wrote an article about treating mites, but it is...
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    Blind chickens with Swollen eyes closed

    Any update on your rescue? Hope she is doing better.
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    Food stuck in esophagus! HELP!!

    Does he ever get outside time or is he always inside.
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    Animal dug into coop, left shells ate egg insides

    Rodents leave a small hole when they eat eggs.
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    How many bantams in 10x10 run?

    I assume you have a reason not to mix them, probably roosters fighting and cross breeding you dont want? For that reason, the fighting, no they wont feel jealous if you seperate them. Where do they sleep? I would try to give them an hour free range before they sleep, they should be accustomed...
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    Food stuck in esophagus! HELP!!

    Keep clean water next to food right.
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    Foamy eye and swallen

    For you, I think you are now under a general flock maintenance category, rather than a disease, injury, and cure. Because the advice you really may need is how can you do the best thing for your chickens and your flock. But to answer this, it may require asking about your flock, how many...
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    Testing Well Water

    Intersting and informative, but I didnt imply running a well pump for a trickle. To achieve a constant trickle of water, to feed a natural pond or small stream, an above ground resevoir would provide the volume necessary to feed it. The well pump could be run to replenish the resevoir, every...
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    Testing Well Water

    I feel like I described the process of building a natural filter adequately for giving a general idea of the scope. Obviously a natural filter requires research from the end user and it is a project. Please give a little leway for a generalized discussion before calling it misinformation and...
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    Please Help, Confirmed Marek's and Mycoplasma

    Regarding necropsies, I dont think they actually test for Mareks. I think they just take your money and send out a copy pasted document that says "this is typical of a chicken with Mareks disease" to try to fool you. I cant wait to read the responses to this. You can submit a blood sample for...
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    Testing Well Water

    Is your terrain flat? It must be an electric pump. Just to give an idea, I supply a 20' x 50' although it is not very deep, pond for my ducks and chickens with just rain and a trickle of water from an elevated resevoir. Sometimes I turn on the water full just to regenerate the pond because I...
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    Testing Well Water

    How does your well work if i may ask? Is it something you can turn on with a switch and get an endless supply of water? Or is it something you have to pump with a manual valve? Is it an electric? I have no idea, but I do know that if you have an endless supply of water, even a trickle, you can...
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    Blind chickens with Swollen eyes closed

    Stop hydrogen peroxide at least internally. That may cause them to become blind. But if you can reverse the immuno comprised status, they should heal up and not be blind, but any chemical in the eyes, or even water inside is very risky to feed an infection or push it deeper. You have to hope...
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    Blind chickens with Swollen eyes closed

    Wild backyard chickens huh, pretty rough shape and needs some care. It's really tough to say what this is because it is almost surely dry pox, but beyond that are the other complications that have caused it to get so bad. Her scratching probably caused it to worsen, introducing bacteria into the...
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    What???? Weird bump in eye socket

    I would only say be careful with any advice about cleaning it or adding eye drops as it may push the infection deeper. When you are removing the solid every day, does it seem like there is an internal infection that is very painful to him, perhaps causing him to wince very strongly? I had a...
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    Broody abandon 1st nest, but sitting on another

    Hens dont really remember and often sit on the wrong eggs by mistake. You can keep moving her back to her eggs until she gets it. But she may still keep going to the old nest by mistake the first couple times she leaves to stretch out. Whenever I move a broody hen and eggs, I have to monitor her...
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    New chick in elevated laying box! Help!

    Is there room in the box to put some starter food and water?
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    Just tried to adminster Dulcolax for possible impaction, and literally don't get it

    Crush it up into powder and mix it with water in a small cup, then administer the medicated water with a 10 mL syringe. But really you can skip the medicine and just administer 10 or 20 mL of water and shake his crop around. Your chicken is just dehydrated. Introduce a couple more waterers at...
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    Chicken overheating?

    You can pull them from the coop and give them 20 mL of water to help them. Also feel their crop and if it is very hard, then you help them a lot giving them extra water at night to pass all the food in their crop. Sometimes they dont drink enough to empty the crop, and giving them water with a...
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