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    Is there a systemic treatment to kill fly-strike maggots?

    I've soaked her bottom in a deep dishpan of warm water with blue Dawn liquid soap. Many maggots came out in the water. After rinsing her off, I set her on the patio table. Sitting next to the table, I was at the perfect height to see her raw quarter-sized wound where the maggots had eaten...
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    Ok to feed raw hamburger meat?

    In an effort to boost their nutrition while they are molting and have stopped laying eggs, I looked at some cans of cat food and cans of dog food at the supermarket today. Only 10% protein. Instead, I bought two pounds of raw hamburger meat. Chopped meat. Beef. 90% lean. It's 22% protein...
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    Ok to feed pickled-in-vinegar vegetables?

    Leftover health salad from the deli store. Ok to offer to the hens ?
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    Definitions for "mash" and for "drench"?

    I've seen crumbles and I've seen pellets, but what is mash? And what is it for? Is drench a liquid that chickens drink or do you bathe them in it? And what's it for? Thanks.
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    Is "Triple Antibiotic Ointment Plus" safe to use on chicken's foot wound?

    Just noticed a drop of blood on the doorstep of the ChickArena as my cream legbar stepped out for the day. Am in the house gathering stuff to clean and treat it and bandage it. I'll bring her indoors to bath it in a basin of warm water and epsom salts. Will then be able to see the wound and...
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    Online course in "Chicken Behaviour and Welfare" (Free if you don't need a certificate upon compl

    https://www.coursera.org/learn/chickens
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    Grandpa's Feeder (treadle feeder) and my clueless chickens (I'd love to receive any helpful suggest

    So far the Grandpa's Feeder is winning the IQ test. http://www.grandpasfeeders.com/ Five of my seven hens would rather starve to death than step up on the treadle. (I think that the movement of the lid is what's spooking them.) However, two of my seven have had the lightbulb moment and can...
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    Need advice constructing support for a higher pitched roof (Very long story, with eight photos.)

    Need advice on retrofitting a sloped roof over my existing ChickArena. The sloped roof that we’ve used for the past five years is not at a-large-enough pitch for rain and snow to readily run off. We need to replace it or somehow redesign and build and install it so that it has a much greater...
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    loud crying sound with each breath in 4 year old hen

    Big Delaware hen with what I'm guessing is an upper respiratory infection. No discharge seen from nose or eyes, but does "cough" and does a sharp head shake occasionally as though trying to clear her airway. She's eating and drinking as usual and her poop looks normal. From what I'm reading...
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    Is it usual for the girls to lose their appetite while molting?

    I've got 8 chickens. They barely look at their bedtime treat of a little bit of scratch grains. Whereas they used to make a mad dash for it and scarf it all down in five minutes flat. Now that they are molting, they've even cut way down on eating their Purina Layena regular food. They're...
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    Offering Calcium to my chickens: Buying oyster shell online: What brands do you recommend?

    I want to buy crushed oyster shell online in the most cost effective package. I only have six laying hens, so a fifteen pound bag should last a few months at least, I think. Even though it's high in calcium, I don't want to use crushed limestone, because it's insoluable and not as readily...
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    Anyone on the medication called Prednisone? Could our medical condition be a somatic reaction to ou

    One of our BackYardChickens.com members happened to mention in a private email to me that she is taking prednisone for her rheumatoid arthritis; and then I read another post from another member who was on prednisone for her inflammatory condition, and another who was taking it for her autoimmune...
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    Anyone on the medication called Prednisone? Could our medical condition be a somatic reaction to ou

    One of our BackYardChickens.com members happened to mention in a private email to me that she is taking prednisone for her rheumatoid arthritis; and then I read another post from another member who was on prednisone for her inflammatory condition, and another who was taking it for her autoimmune...
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    I'm posting this for someone else. Her byc name is chickengiver; she's in Brooklyn, NY

    I was just contacted out of the blue by a young woman by the name of Elvire who got my name from the web as someone who keeps chickens. Her company bought her a hen to use in a film project. The project is over and now she needs to find a good home for this hen. Elvire and the chicken are in...
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    installing sod in the chicken yard

    I know, I know; the chickens will destroy all the grass in their free ranging yard. However; it took my six hens about three summers to completely destroy all the grass. Their yard still looks great in the summertime though, because some ground cover weed (which they won't and don't eat)...
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    Raw beef and lamb suet ok to feed to the chickens?

    I searched the feeding forum but there are no postings there that indicate whether the suet is raw or not. I cut some raw fat from the rack of lamb last night and saved it to give to the chickens, but want to make sure first that I'm not putting the chickens at risk. Anybody know?
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    The lawn care crew is here and they want to sprinkle lime in the grass where the chickens roam

    Should Iet them put the lime down or not? The chickens eat the grass all day long. Will it hurt them if the grass blades are covered in lime? The lime is the powdery stuff, not pebbles of lime. I read a few threads about lime to try to find the answer to my question, but those thread were...
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    Color marking adult chickens to identify who is who

    I have two Buff Orpingtons that are very similar in appearance. I can tell who's who if they're standing up next to each other, because Laverne is a bit larger than Shirley. However, if I see one without the other, I don't know which one it is. Leg bands won't help me if the hen is sitting...
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    Egg song practice; hasn't squatted yet.

    My two buff Orpingtons are now five months old. No eggs yet. They haven't ever squatted as yet. But, I did hear one of them singing the egg song yesterday when she was hidden under some shubbery. I crawled in under there afterwards and hunted and searched but didn't find any eggs. Do...
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    What gender is this buff Orpington chicken? ("Laverne")

    Here's the other fifteen and a half week old chicken that I'm hoping is female. I've named her Laverne. "She" seems to be a tiny bit larger than Shirley, but supposedly they have the same hatch date. I don't see much difference in temperament. I put a few drops of blue food coloring on her...
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