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    Sick Hen, No Idea What is Wrong?

    I have a 2-1/2 year old sex link that started acting a little off a couple of days ago. She is eating very little, but still drinking. She isolates herself from the other hens and just stands with her eyes half shut. No respiratory symptoms, crop is soft and empty, no discharge or anything from...
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    Help...Broken Beak!

    One of my girls has broken the end of her beak all the way across. It is bruising all the way to where her beak starts. Got the bleeding stopped, but have no idea how to treat it. I cleaned it and put antibiotic ointment on it. Do I need to take her somewhere and have the broken end removed, or...
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    Can We Say Head Poop?

    My run is enclosed with wood and we cut a large fenced window in it and put a perch up, so the girls could look out. Also catches a nice breeze and helps keep the run cooler. When we go into the run, if there are any girls on the perch, they will get off. Today, they were fussing and two of them...
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    Reestablishing Pecking Order?

    When I go home from work, I went to sit with the girls a while. I have 6 sex links. All of my girls are friendly and most will jump on my lap except Penny. Penny wasn't acting quite herself and looked a little weak. By not acting like herself, I mean she jumped into my lap and sat with me a...
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    Kitten Found in Donation Bin

    My husband went to the grocery store today and when he got out of his car, he heard a kitten. He looked around the parking lot, under some cars and couldn't find where the meowing was coming from. Then a lady got out of her car and they both listened and finally figured it was coming from a...
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    Mothers Day without Mom

    My Mom will have passed away 2 yrs ago on June 11th and I miss her terribly. Last year I just ignored Mother's Day and tried to stay busy, and stayed away from anything and anywhere that celebrated Mother's Day. I guess that was my way of coping. As time has gone by, I find myself not thinking...
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    Brown's Layer Booster Daily Chicken Feed

    Just saw an ad for this chicken feed..Brown's Layer Booster Daily Chicken Feed. Has anyone ever tried this brand? Here are the ingredients. What do you think? Ingredients: Corn, Soybean Meal, Wheat Middlings, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Soybean Oil, Dicalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate , Salt...
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    New computor....site slow....

    I have just gotten a new computer and BYC is slow. It's taking so long for the advertisements to load. Every time I go to a new page, takes forever for the ads before I can do anything else. Any idea why? Thanks!
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    Digging

    Just wondering if your chickens dig a lot. My girls dig a lot of holes and sometimes really deep holes. Looks like the walls of my run have been trenched. Do some breed dig more than others? We usually fill in the holes at least once a week, but of course they're usually back in a few days. I...
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    Bradford Pear Tree Blossoms Okay to Eat?

    Our Bradford Pear tree is in full bloom and the white petals are now falling. When they fall in the run, the chickens are eating them. They haven't eaten too many, but quickly snatch them up when they see them. The little bit they have eaten hasn't seemed to bother them...so I was wondering if...
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    Recall on Nutrena Naturewise

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. Cargill Conducts Voluntary...
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    Spooked Chickens?

    My chickens do not free range and have a large run. When I got home from work today, my son told me the girls stayed in the back part of the run and did not run to the door. If they hear anyone approaching the run, all 6 of them are waiting at the door to greet them. Sure enough, when I went to...
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    Locked in the Coop

    When I scoop poop from the coop, I will get inside, but when my husband or son scoops, they will lean in at the door. It has been windy here for the last couple of days and I went to scoop this morning as usual. I got into the coop and the wind blew the door shut. I have a lock that engages when...
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    What kind of bushes for the chicken run?

    I was thinking about adding a couple of bushes to my run. My chickens don't free range and I like to make their run as close to free range as possible. I would love to add some bushes that have cover and they could lounge around under in the summer. I also want it to be something that will not...
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    Huge Eggs!

    One of my sex link girls is laying really large eggs. She has laid a 3.1 and 3.2 oz. egg this week. Here are a few pics.I 've put some of their regular eggs beside them.
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    Clear Liquid From Vent

    I have searched this subject and haven't really found anything quite like what Milly has done. For the last couple of afternoons after I get home, Milly will jump in my lap and when I pull her close to cuddle, clear liquid comes out of her vent. Not a dribble, but quite a bit. Almost like she...
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    Can't fool my girls....

    I had some extra cooked carrots, so I chopped them up and put them in some plain yogurt. Yummm...carrot yogurt! Now, my girls love yogurt, but when I gave them the carrot yogurt, they looked at it as to say, What is this? A couple of them did taste, but decided real quick that this was not the...
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    My Chickens....My Therapy...My Little Dinosuars

    For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted chickens, so this Spring I got 6 girl sex links. They will be 18 wks. on Sat. I love these girls and they have been the best therapy. When I have had a bad day or just feeling down, I'll go sit with them and before long, they are the only thing...
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    First egg today!!

    Went out to the coop this afternoon and Precious was in the nesting box arranging her hay. After she got it just right, she settled in and wasn't long before she laid her first egg. This is also my first egg :) Don't know who was the most excited, me or Precious.I have 6 sex links and hoping...
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    Question about Fowl Pox Vaccine

    I have just vaccinated my 6 -1/2 wk olds with the adult version of the vaccine. The vaccine did come with the 2 prong plunger. I did poke it into the wing web, but I don't think it went through on a couple of them and barely through on the other four. Dang plunger certainly wasn't that sharp. I...
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