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    Where's the oviduct?

    I know this info is on here somewhere, but I just can't find it. I've been searching for almost an hour. Just don't know the magic search term. I've done this in the past, so not entirely new, but I've also ended up in the rectum sometimes. I think left side down low, but other times I've read...
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    found answer to bird not walking

    I thought I'd put this out there for someone to find in the future if they encounter the same problem. It seemed dreadful, but had a simple solution that took me weeks to figure out. One of our older girls gradually stopped walking. When she was sitting and standing, she would seem to start to...
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    Sign out problems

    Never mind. Scrolling the page is working now. Computers! The "button" to sign out is at the bottom of the Your Account menu. I can't get my cursor or page to go far enough down to click it. The menu reaches past the bottom of the window. Scrolling the page doesn't move the menu. I've tried...
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    Bumblefoot after the pus is out.

    I'm sure this is on the forums somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it and I've got a chicken needing some help. I've been working on this girl's foot over the last week. She had a tiny scab, but there was a huge blob of pus under it. Today, I was able to pull the whole thing out. It was...
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    Dare I? Flatulence problem with hens

    This line of inquiry usually devolves into a lot of humor, but please humor me for a moment before the fun starts. Several of my hens are getting swollen bellies. I took the first one to a vet, expecting egg peritonitis or ascites or such, She took an x-ray and found lots of gas in her...
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    Sudden frequent tiny eggs

    We are suddenly getting tiny eggs from someone. We have 9 three-year olds, 11 two-year olds, and 6 eighteen-month olds. All have been laying normal size eggs since reaching egg laying age. Suddenly we are finding a tiny egg almost every day. I've seen threads about the occasional tiny egg, but...
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    Dislocated or broken? How to tell?

    Our golden comet, Sweetie Pie, cannot walk or stand. This first happened at the same time that she was attacked by the other girls. My husband went in the coop in the morning and she was on the floor being pecked and stomped to nearly death. He put her in the infirmary. She couldn't walk or...
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    bringing down fever

    Found a few ways to cool down a feverish chicken. She was on an antibiotic and anti-inflammatory but is didn't seem to be working well. At first, I settled her in a bath of warm water, lowering her into it by slight pressure on her back. Spread out her wings to cool under arm-pits. She...
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    EMERGENCY Sudden collapse after penicillin injection

    I gave a hen an injection of penicillin in her left breast; and within five seconds, she collapsed and was not breathing. I made up chicken CPR, patterned on infant CPR, and carried her around, bouncing her until she revived. She's now breathing, and standing on her own, but extremely weak. Is...
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    HELP please, Soft shell eggs breaking in chicken causing infection

    Yesterday, I took a 2 yr old chicken to an avian vet because her belly was swollen and heavy. I feared internal egg laying and euthanasia. He thought it was a broken soft-shell egg which caused infection and inflammation. He gave her injections of an anti-inflammatory and long-acting...
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    New use for take-out containers

    Reduce, re-use, recycle! Started with one but they outgrew it in two days! Time to move to a larger brooder.
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    Red swollen tail

    Pictures of inflamed swollen tail on our Rhode Island Red, Marylou are below. I started this under another post, but thought I'd put it up here as a separate thread for people with this problem in their flock. Marylou's tail was swollen and bright red. I thought it was a skin infection, but...
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    Feeding Roosters

    Has anybody found any studies about what to feed males that are not broilers? I have found ONE reference and that was only for energy requirements of male broiler-type breeders. Obviously low calcium, but I've seen protein requirements from 12% to 20%. I'm currently feeding grower/finisher...
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    Cover for chicken tractor

    Hello all. I've been designing a mobile coop for our girls. It's going to be a PVC hoop house. The last piece of the puzzle is a cover. I'd like to provide shade or at least create a cool space in the summer, but in the winter, I'd like the cover to allow heat to build up inside to keep them...
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    Poll: Rooster

    There's been a lot of discussion on the forums about roo behavior and whether to use an aggressive, "I'm top rooster and I'll show you who's boss" method or a gentler approach of building a relationship where he knows what's acceptable and what isn't. Each method seems to have varying and...
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    Massive feather loss

    Pictures at bottom of post. . We have a Rhode Island Red who is losing feathers in a huge way. I finally took her to the vet and she had no answer for me. The other chickens are fine (there are 12). They are eating layer feed and free ranging within a 160 square foot run with a moveable...
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    Lost our first chicken

    Today, when I went to check on the chickens around 10 am, I realized one of our Golden Comets was missing. At first, I looked for a wandering chicken. Finding nothing I went back to the run and looked more closely. Feathers. About three piles of them, several from a life and death fight...
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    How to give a chicken liquid medicine

    After struggling for days to get pain med and antibiotics into our very feisty Americauna, I finally did some research. I also asked our vet to show me how. I want to post this for anyone else having trouble. First I'll give her method, then I recommend reading the following description which...
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    Where to buy chicken meds ...

    ...in small amounts? I would like to keep some on hand for emergencies. With 13 hens and 12 chicks I don't need the large quantities I've been finding at the feed stores. THANKS
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    hen doesn't seem to understand what it's all about

    We've got one (of three) Americauna (beautiful bird!) who's 13 months old and has only just, we think, begun to lay eggs, maybe. It was only about a month ago that she started doing "the squat" that the others started doing when they started laying. Once we found three green eggs in one day...
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