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    Where is my egg?

    It was a shelless egg. Chickens always eat shelless eggs.
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    DIY leg bands?

    Use food coloring. 100% non toxic stuff. Refresh when it starts to fade.
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    Rooster issues

    This behavior from a 1+ yo rooster is not acceptable. However pay attention to the hens because in the case it's not the rooster's fault, there might be something wrong with the hens and the rooster is just trying to "fix" what feels wrong to him. So, try to observe and figure out why this...
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    Crop not emptying a week out from crop surgery

    I'm personally against crop massage because it could cause aspiration, but there are different schools of thought about this practice.
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    Crop not emptying a week out from crop surgery

    Soft food is the best choice. I'd keep feeding her soft foods for another week and see if anything changes. I'd add some canned fish and boiled oat or boiled rice.
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    Guess what breed hen laid this colorful egg?

    same breed of the egg in the center.
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    Crop not emptying a week out from crop surgery

    What are you feeding her?
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    Probable kidney issues?

    Can't it be vent gleet? Vent gleet smells horrible.
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    Open Contest Natural Egg Photo Contest—17th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    It's hers 😊 https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/pullet-laid-2-eggs-then-nothing-its-been-5-weeks-since.1677135/post-28996439
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    Open Contest Natural Egg Photo Contest—17th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Entry #2
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    Open Contest Natural Egg Photo Contest—17th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Entry #1
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    SOS chicks all suddenly sick and dying!

    Chicks need to be exposed to coccidiosis in their first 2 weeks of life so they can build immunity. Feeding them medicated feed help them keep the symptoms under control while they are exposed to coccidiosis in early life. Feeding them medicated feed without exposing them to coccidiosis is...
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    None stop issues

    What are you feeding them? If everything was fine for months and then they suddenly started to cannibalize each other exactly at molting time, then it's most likely a protein deficiency. Add more protein to their daily ration. If they want meat so bad they're eating each other, give them meat...
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    Sick Roo

    You need to figure out why he's anemic. Iron does not cure the source of the problem. If every other chicken is fine it's not a nutritional issue. Sudden anemia in only one bird is mostly caused by blood loss. Blood loss can be caused by many things, could be hemorrhagic liver disease...
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    Fermented feed for chickens

    it was just an example to explain aerobic and anaerobic water conditions. I didn't want to write a book about fish physiology and habitats. I could have used ostracods or copepods as examples instead of fish but who knows what ostracods and copepods are. Like Schrödinger's cat being dead and...
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    My chickens won't eat grains ! need help..

    If they don't like layer feed, it means the feed you give them is not good. Try to give them chick starter. My chickens hate layer feed and they rather starve than eat the disgusting stuff, but they never say no to some chickstarter, especially if I moist it with some plain yoghurt or milk.
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    Fermented feed for chickens

    if you put a fish in a jar, and make the jar air tight, the fish will suffocate and die from lack of oxygen. So in this specific case, the water is anaerobic. This is why you can get botulism from eating canned stuff that has not been preserved in the correct way (enough acid/salt/sugar). If...
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    Fermented feed for chickens

    I ferment a lot of stuff for myself (kombucha, tempeh, kefir, gingerbug, tepache, etc.). It is pointless to ferment commercial feed. Commercial feed is nutritionally balanced, since nothing can be created from nothing, you're just going to transform a balanced feed to something with a different...
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    Lethargic hen, doesn't eat, diarrhea

    Poop from the evening
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    Lethargic hen, doesn't eat, diarrhea

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