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    Ugh. My rooster's rear is infected- there are maggots! What do I do?

    Okay, this is totally gross. We've noticed for a few weeks that he didn't smell good, but we couldn't find anything wrong and he acts perfectly normally. Well, today my son caught him and we moved his rear end feathers back, and discovered that he has a violently red area around his vent as well...
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    Hen won't accept healthy chick ?

    Hi, fellow chicken fans, Our broody hen, who's always been a terrific mother and always hatched out (and loved on) 100%, sat on the last batch of eggs for 26 days before we found some babies this weekend to pull a switch on her with. Sunday night we took out her eggs and replaced them with...
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    bantams quit laying?

    I have two bantam hens and one roo, and they happily live together in a chicken tractor. Both hens have been laying just fine until a couple of weeks ago, and now they've both quit. As far as I can tell nothing has changed to cause this. Does anyone have any ideas? Could they quit laying because...
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    how soon after worming can I eat the eggs?

    We keep our bantams separate from the rest of our chickens, and last week we discovered the bantams had worms. We wormed them the next day, and went ahead and wormed the regular sized hens a couple of days later. Right now hardly anyone is laying, but we did get an egg today. How soon after...
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    what do you feed a rooster instead of layer pellets?

    All of our chickens free range (while we are home) and we supplement with layer pellets, except for one lame bantam rooster. We keep him in a chicken tractor because he only hops on one foot. I don't know how he'd survive an encounter with either of our other 2 roosters without a screen in...
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    Broody hen hatching some babies in upper nest box- Ok to lower?

    Several weeks ago we had a hen go broody (our first one!!) and since we'd been taking everybody's eggs all along, we just put the next three eggs anyone laid under her. Problem is that she is in an upper nesting box. I seriously didn't think any of these would hatch and didn't really worry...
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    Auburn, Alabama laws on chickens in city limits?

    I live outside the city limits as of a year ago, but many of my friends are jealous of the fact that I now have chickens. How can I find out the law on owning chickens within the city limits? I've spent a little time wandering around the web trying to figure it out, but I'm obviously not looking...
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    pecan shells in run?

    Okay, this may be a strange question, but does anyone have an opnion about using pecan shells in a run? I have several large bags of the shells that I hate to just throw away. However, I don't think they'd absorb any moisture, and they may really have too many sharp edges... and I may have just...
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    Will our coop design be secure enough? Tired of losing chickens!

    We just came into possession of the body of an old cow trailer and we're converting it to a chicken coop. It is a steel tube frame, with the tubes spaced not more than 8" apart horizontally. It has framing for a wooden roof on top. The structure is 6' tall, 16' long and 8' wide. Before now...
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    Can you tell an egg's fertility early enough to eat it if it's not?

    We are new-ish to chickens, and an older hen who had stopped laying was given to us a few weeks ago. Well, in the past 10 days she's laid 8 beautiful brown eggs! We are very excited and want her to hatch them out. We were given an older rooster at the same time we got her, and we've seen him...
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    chick w/weak & hot legs but good appetite- any clues?

    Hi, everyone- I just joined but have been visiting and reading for several weeks now. I'm hoping someone can help me diagnose what's wrong with my young cockerel. We are new to owning chickens, too. We love it! Anyway, he's about 20-22 weeks old, and a couple of weeks ago he began showing signs...
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