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    My first Broody BO 8mo

    I have been ill for nearly 2weeks with severe bronchitis, a friend has been feeding watering them for me. She finally told me today the one hen has always been in the box and won't let her get eggs. I go out to check and sure enough she is setting on eggs, growls when you touch her, indignant...
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    Bumble foot- how I kept my hen calm.

    One of our Welsummer hens had the dark scab on the big pad of her foot. I had to keep her calm and too hot for a towel over her. I used a toilet paper roll, cut a "v" in one end so it fit over her head the v cut just under her wattles. It allowed her to breathe and dark to calm her down. I...
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    Recurring Vent Gleet in flock

    For awhile now I keep treating my hens for vent gleet that keeps popping up in another hen. It is making the rounds of all of them. :he The 11 hens get vent checks weekly to try to catch it early. Over the weekend the two Welsummers had it so bad internally one was walking like she was egg...
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    Strawbale gardening a revelation! - long post

    We have 200+ bales that have been around for about 10 years that have been kept relatively dry, haven't broken apart and mold free. I used some of the good bales around the coop and run for insulation in this past horrid winter. I put flakes in the run and coop to give them something to tear...
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    Training chicks

    My buff orpington chicks are 3 weeks old now and am introducing them to different foods. Mostly chick mash, with small meal worms. I found our dog training clicker, (didn't work so great on the dog he is still an idiot.) I have the idea of when I put in food or change the water to use the...
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    HUGE afternoon Egg surprise!

    The girls gave me the largest egg I have ever seen a chicken lay today. I had to check them, the EE'S to see if they were alright. This is why. It wouldn't even fit in an egg carton. I think I'll blow it out to keep it. The green layers were all fine, just amazing you think it would've...
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    Chicks ingesting hair! Was wrapped around tongue!

    This morning I heard panic cries from the nearly 3 week old buff orpington chicks. They are in a large wired dog crate with fiberglass screen wrapped around it and plasic to prevent drafts. (The screen is to prevent interested paws and noses from the chicks.) The top has the heat lamp and no...
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    Lost 6 day old chick. Found cause.

    I have been up for the last couple of hours with a chick that had been fine when checked on them, running around eating drinking. Then I heard a loud cheep and checked again. It was down on belly gasping opening mouth to breathe audible clicking noise from chick with each breath. It went...
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    Coastal Farm and Ranch Chicks - immunizations ((Yakima store)

    Last night I was at a poultry workshop in store at Coastal. The person that does the chick ordering said that individual stores when they order can ask to have the newly hatched chicks immunized before delivery to store. However the chicks at the Yakima store are NOT given any, only thing they...
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    marks ocular? and suspicious sore on beak

    One of my EE has a strange pigment change to one eye and a dry non scabby sore on her beak. Thinking is that Mareks to her eye and is that just a sore or pox?
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    mareks ocular? and suspicious sore on beak

    One of my EE has a strange pigment change to one eye and a dry non scabby sore on her beak. Thinking is that Mareks to her eye and is that just a sore or pox? The pupil reacts with no deformity or odd shape when contracting or dilating. Sore is dry no seeping and is where skin meets the beak on...
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    Poultry workshops - Wa & Oregon

    Poultry Owners Workshop Come for an evening of refreshments and learning at your local Coastal Farm & Ranch store. An expert from Purina Animal Nutrition will be discussing and answering questions on: Chick Care, Feeding, Fencing & Housing to maintain a healthy backyard flock. All Workshops...
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    Buff Orpington Roo questions, currently in quarentine

    I recently got a nearly year old Buff Orpington Roo with a hen (welsummer cross). I have them seperated from my flock (11 months old), they are getting treated for worms, lice/ mites, and given Vitamin injection as both are underweight, treating for scaly leg mites as some scales are upturned. I...
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    Any leatherworkers?

    In my spare time ( :gig ) I have made leather sleeves lined with felted wool or pendleton blanket scraps. Ipod, earphone, cellphone holders these are made from my more pliable leathers like deer, elk, or fur hides. I'm trying to make a pattern for bracers for my Nephew. He works in a lumber...
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    Chicken Chuckle -How to administer oral medications to a bird

    I found this while searching for some information, here is the link if you would like to see original page, http://www.avianweb.com/administeringmedicationstobirds.html and following is the text: Gather all your supplies, fill your syringes and have them waiting for you. Gently pick up your...
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    Crop on left side? Tumor where it should be? ** update**

    Yesterday (Thursday) I picked up one of the California Greys, she was squaking at my feet pecking at my jeans begging for treats. As I was checking her over I felt her crop on her left chest instead of the right, she had food inside and otherwise felt normal. I checked a couple of the others...
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    white leghorn question

    The white leghorn is supposedly dual purpose, well I guess any chicken can fall under that category... What I would like to know if feeding a high protein mash (feather fixer, scrambled eggs, oats) would be a good way to add a bit of fat/weight to a bully leghorn. I seperated her out today...
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    Aggresive roo's demise

    We adopted a Speckled Sussex Roo and hen over a month ago. He had been hanging back not really coming close when we handed out treats or feeding the girls. He came from an iffy location possible cock fighting breeder. We were hoping for chicks from the pair. Anyway things were going fine with...
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    Funny Chickens reacting to a noise

    Our chickens have always responded to certain noises by shaking their heads. When they were chicks we dusted them because we thought they may have had earmites. Then we saw they always reacted the same way. We still still think it is funny. Do anyone else's chickens do this too?
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    Confused over an Easter Egger

    We have 2 Easter Eggers that I am confused about I know one is a hen the other has different shaped tail and haven't seen the one drop an egg. We were told they were Ameraucana but I'm pretty sure EE. This one is a hen. This next one has a different shaped tail we think it is a hen but...
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