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    Eggs for food vs eggs for chicks...sound off please

    We had store-bought eggs for Easter last year because my girls were old and pretty much slackers. Then we didn’t use them and they sat in the pantry. Hubby was cracking one open a day, and feeding to the dogs when he got to the last one...smelled to high heaven and inside was a fully formed...
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    Splayed or Twisted Tendons. Little Red Broken Baby

    I just wanted to post a few pics with our experience with Little Red Broken Baby. We call her Libby and she is a Rhode Island Red. When I picked her out of the brooder, there were so many chicks, I didn't realize she was stumbling around until I got her home. It was too late. I couldn't take...
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    Ten chicks from MPC. Only one survived.

    So I went out yesterday and found her two friends. They are English Orpingtons and only two weeks old, but next to her, they look like ostriches! They are sweet and gentle with her and have taught her all she needs to know about eating, drinking, and most of all, to squat and sleep rather than...
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    Ten chicks from MPC. Only one survived.

    We call her Miracle, one of my two Plymouth Barred Rocks. She's starting to perk up a bit. Had some yogurt and drank some water. Pecked at some feed. Loves the Boxer (although not without me sitting very close by.) They said they will replace the ones that died, but since she didn't die...
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    Prolapsed vent.

    Thanks Sour. I do check her a couple times a day. We don't have a rooster. She's been laying every day. My most consistent layer. Do you think we shouldn't eat her eggs? Would we be able to look at them when opened and see if something was wrong with them?
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    Prolapsed vent.

    Hi Chicken Peoples! I haven't been to the forum in awhile. My girls are now a year old and for the months before they came and until they were gangly tweens, I pretty much devoured these pages and thank everyone for all their stories, insights, and knowledge. I couldn't have done it without...
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    Do you like McDonalds?

    Around here, when the coffee shops close up, there's always MickyD's. They actually make a great cappuccino which really surprised me. Add a fruit and yogurt tray to that if you're hungry and it's not too bad. Burgers? Scary.
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    Anyone use SAND in the run/coop

    Double post. Silly iPad.
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    Anyone use SAND in the run/coop

    Here in Oregon and a week of rain. I read on here that we should put construction sand in the run. It was okay, but not what I expected in the last 3 months. I thought I would be able to pick up the poo better, but it would pretty much get buried. I would rake it once a day and turned it...
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    Hen With Poopy Vent Feathers & Possibly Prolapse - Graphic Picture

    So my Skittles is in a dark box in the house.... and laid another egg. Despite that fact that I'm delighted to find the egg next to this little girl (she was sitting NEXT to it, not on it?) and her vent looked soft and puffy, but not prolapsed like last night, I'm a little worried as to what I...
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    Hen With Poopy Vent Feathers & Possibly Prolapse - Graphic Picture

    I apologize for pulling up such an old thread, but found the pic of Nifty's chicken with a Google Images search. My 20 week bantam EE just laid her first two eggs in the last couple of days. Nothing today, but then tonight when I came home she was huddled in the bottom of the coop under the...
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    Sacrificing Chickens-The truth

    This is a great thread. Thank you fowled-out.
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    Changing my, and my Family's Life Forever....

    Wow, I loved this thread. Just one of the things that was always on my bucket list, but life kept getting in the way. And teenagers... they would have had me locked up as certifiably insane if I'd told them we were leaving dance, football and theatre. Now they're grown and I'm a bit tired and...
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    how do i get live birds from the airport without being ripped off

    Sorry, deleted post.
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    Have been using sand in the run for 3 mons..now what?

    Re the DE, I finally found some up here in Oregon at the Wilco. Yayyy! Shipping it was ridiculous. It doubled the price of a bag. I have an 8 x 4 foot run with construction sand (which doesn't seem quite fine enough, although that's what I've been reading was the best. It packs down too hard...
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    Anyone else use an egg basket?

    My girls haven't laid an egg yet, but I've had my egg basket ready and waiting for almost a year now!
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    how do i get live birds from the airport without being ripped off

    Hey animals, consider yourself lucky that you had this board to ask. Just the last two sentences of that letter screamed scam from someone in a foreign country trying to write like they could speak English properly. They certainly could not. Just for fun I wrote a quick email to that...
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    raising chicks on cement

    I've had my new coop on pavement with pine pellets and hay. I fluff it up every day and seems to be doing well but we're going to try out some sand this week just to see what the difference will be. We're temporary here so want to be prepared for our permanent home. Heard a lot of good things...
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    My summer project

    That was the first thing I noticed because I was always trying to figure out how I was going to get a chair in the coop. I wondered how you could possibly keep it clean! I ended up painting a little stool red to match the ramp and inside of the coop and keep it just outside the pen door. It's...
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    week old chick dying slowly-do i play god??

    So sorry Charity:hugs I lost a little silkie like that, but it was a lot quicker. I was so confused. My biggest thing is that I worried constantly after that the rest of the girls were going to start dropping like flies. I'd been reading on here for almost a year and there seemed to be one...
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