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    sick chicken-mucousy poop

    Hi everyone- I have an ill bard rock ~ 2yrs old. 1 week ago she was pretty droopy and lethargic and I separated her from the flock. I gave her some vitamins and wormed her with safeguard. She is definitely perkier after a week but is not eating very much. Over the last week she would eat some...
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    prolapsed vent

    So tonight I found one of my 2 yr old hens with a prolapsed vent. She was squatting and seemed to be trying to poop. I pushed her vent in and she passed a soft shell egg. So wondering if this is likely to happen again-the prolapsed vent....or did she spend a lot of the day trying to lay the egg...
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    fart eggs

    Have a pretty mature flock-youngest hens are about 18 months old, oldest 4 yrs old. Got my first fart egg today...any concerns? Thinking it was a misstep for one of them...thoughts?
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    bloody egg

    Today I found an egg coated in blood, not entirely sure who the culprit is but I suspect it is one of my younger chickens although they have been laying since November. Everyone looks happy and there is not blood on anyone's vents or feathers. I also had a soft shell egg this week too, haven't...
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    integrating new pullets

    I have a flock of 5 hens ranging from 2-3 yrs in age, I am trying to introduce 3 pullets, the first day there was some chasing but not too bad and all roosted together. By the 3rd day though they were being pecked alot-no blood-but enough they were huddled in a ball and were not able to eat or...
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    roundworms

    Will safegaurd treat roundworms? If so is it 1/2cc per standard bird and then redose in 10 days?
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    white coated egg

    So my hens have just started laying in the last week after a 2 month hiatus from a hard moult and shortening days, today I had an egg that had alot of white coating on it-almost like it was encrusted in calcium-I washed it and it came off easily, I unfortunately didn't get a picture. All my...
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    egg laying on roost

    So...I have a hen that is laying eggs periodically while roosting, I am not sure but I suspect it is my NHRed that was egg bound a month or so ago with a broken soft shelled egg, there is plenty of oyster shell available and she is acting well otherwise, she I suspect is about 2 yrs old. So...
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    egg bound with broken egg

    So today I found my New Hampshire inside the coop not wanting to come out. She had some ooze coming from her vent and on her feathers. When I picked her up as I massaged her below her vent she began to pass part of a soft egg shell. I brought her in and gave her a warm bath and then with an...
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    milky substance from vent

    So-just noticed one of my BR pullets had an egg that was wet on the outside....when I picked her up and looked at her vent all appeared to be fine. When I massaged her under her vent behind her legs a small amt of a milky substance came out of her vent. Her vent looks perfectly normal. She does...
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    worms

    Earlier this week one of my hens became ill suddenly and passed within 24 hours, at the time I decided to worm all of them with safegaurd, and I collected a fecal and brought it to the local vet. The report came back today with the following: heterakis gallinarum ova present 3-10, eimeria...
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    Cold weather and egg laying

    So my 6 chickens have been laying pretty well the last 6 weeks any where between 30 and 36 eggs a week. They have some supplemental light. 4 out of the 6 moulted this fall, the other 2 are about 34 weeks old. This week their laying has slacked off significantly with only 1 egg today-average...
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    Gelatinous eggs and moulting chickens

    So....I know chickens when they start laying can lay gelatinous eggs. Today on the roost bar I found a gelatinous egg. I have two 20+ week old BR pullets so they should start laying soon but where I found it today was where my 18 mos old hens were roosting last night. They have been moulting for...
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    blood feather?

    My chickens are currently moulting and today I noticed one of my NH Reds has a clotted scab at the base of what I think is a new feather shaft on one of her primary wing feathers. It currently is not bleeding. I have read some people advise pulling them but I wonder if just applying some blue...
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    New to Chickens-one hen is a bully

    Hi- I am new to chickens-I have 4 chickens that are ~14 mos old, 2 barred rocks and 2 NH reds, additionally 2 15 week old barreds. All are hens.They were all introduced together in the coop the same day. All came from a place with alot of chickens including roosters. The first day there was some...
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