Hello all,
First let me apologize for such a long post. I just wanted to explain everything in as much detail as possible.
We have been seeing our flock die off over the past year from some mysterious disease which seems to result in what appears to be acities as the chickens final undoing...
Hello All,
I have a strange disease effecting my birds.
It only effects one chicken at a time, or at least it seems that way.
The sick chicken is isolated from the flock by the other chickens, she stays on the outskirts of the flock.
Then her abdomen swells until she has trouble walking.
This...
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My chickens have been taking a lot of interest in my compost bin recently.
Normally I wouldn’t be worried but this compost bin is less than a year old and I had a rocky start with it because the area is so dry.....
I am just worried that they may get sick.
Most of the bin seems to be...
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I have several chickens with raw foot pads.
They aren’t swollen.
No one is limping or showing any signs of pain, tenderness yes, but no pain.
It looks like they have worn the pads away faster then they have been able to build up a callus or whatever it’s called in chicken-land.
Two...
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I have been raising my own mealworms in preparation to feed to my girls and I stumbled upon some disturbing news.......
http://www2.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef507.asp
http://www.uaex.edu/Other_Areas/publications/PDF/FSA-7081.pdf
Basically what these documents say is that the...
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About 12 weeks ago my mom and I got our first bunch of chickens.
They are a few days shy of 12 weeks.
We have 2 Easter Eggers and 6 Rhode Island Reds.
We got them all at the same time from the same local feed store.
Anyway, about two weeks ago one of our Easter Eggers started...
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I need some help.
I am confused about coccidiosis.
I have 8 five day old hatchery chicks, these are my first so I am being all overprotective!!!
I have read how some people say not to let them “touch ground” for up to 18 weeks, which seems like a very long time!
I have also read...