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  1. Lilion

    Where do you find Corid?

    I literally cant find it, except for cattle!!! Even on Amazon! Help! Someone please give me a link if you order online. 🥺
  2. Lilion

    Possible internal broken egg? Ideas for treatment.

    So my hen isn't eating and I don't think drinking for a day or two. I went ahead and caught her and brought her in the house today, gave her a soak and washed her very yellow crusted bottom. I believe this is soft egg shell, maybe? I'm not sure what to do to treat her. Since she's not eating...
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    Suddenly lethargic hen, not eating, just looks bad

    My hen is nearly 4 and seemed fine yesterday. Today I went to check on them and toss some cornbread as a treat, and she wouldn't touch it. She loved it yesterday. I caught her (unusual in itself) and her crop was not protruding, I could feel her breast bone, and when I went to feel her vent...
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    Need advice on frostbite and nipple waterers.

    Need advice on frostbite and nipple waterers. How hard or easy is it to get the chickens to change to them? My poor new boy has frostbite. I think he had a tiny bit when we got him a few days ago, but it's gotten much worse. I've always used a heated dog bowl in winter, but my girls don't have...
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    Plan needed for integrating grown rooster and new chicks with older hens

    This is a little complex, but I'll try to make sense. I had 7 hens, 3 about age 2 1/2 and 4 about a year younger. This Thanksgiving, sadly, something got in the run and killed two of my older hens and one of the young ones. The survivors are doing well and get along. I plan on getting 4...
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    Does anyone know where i can buy a feeder kind of like this?

    Or even plans to make one? That video doesn't have that feeder. :idunno
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    Started layer fed way too soon

    I was given some 9 or 10 week old pullets. The neighbor had run out of feed and had been feeding them wild bird seed! No idea how long that had gone on. I only had layer pellets, which the girls eagerly gobbled down. Now I realize my mistake. I'll but some grower today, but was two weeks long...
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    Rhode Island Red 9 or 10 weeks -help sexing?

    Was just given 4 little pullets (please, please, please be pullets) from a neighbor who's moving. He got them in May. Not the best pics, but hoping they're all pullets. Thoughts? All are about the same size with roughly the same combs.
  9. Lilion

    Building in a building

    I'm about to do a new coop for my very small flock. I had only 3 hens, but the neighbor just got told he has to move and is giving me his 4, 9 week old pullets, so I'll have 7. The current coop is big enough, 7x7, but it's also metal and in the sun; just too hot in Missouri summers. So we'd...
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    AniMed Blue Lotion - Did I make a mistake????

    Did I just make a horrible mistake? I have a hen who the Roo made pretty naked in spots. I thought the other hens had been picking so I separated her for a bit. I thought I'd put Blue Kote on the red areas, but none of our local stores had it, so I went to MFA and was sold this. I didn't read...
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    Pretty sure ive got them sexed right...

    Barnyard mix, 11 weeks old...pullet on the left, cockrell on the right? Again, cockrell pic? I'd really love 2 pullets... 😞 One more...same "fella".
  12. Lilion

    NOT egg bound, penguin stance.

    My 11 month old hen is standing and walking like a penguin. I noticed it yesterday but was preoccupied and it was more of a "that's odd"...today it's even more pronounced and I remembered reading about it. I have a picture 2 days old when she was fine. I've googled it and as best I can tell...
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    Broody or hiding from the rooster?

    I have the strangest behavior from one of my hens. I only have 3 (Eenie, Meanie, and Sheba) l plus my rooster (Manny). He has been pretty amorous. One girl (Sheba) has bald spots over her wings and Eenie's back is looking pretty ragged. Eenie has taken to staying in the nest box all the time...
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    Just feeding whatever...

    I can't find the answer, so... I've not gotten a single brand of food and stuck with it. For a while we fed grower, then we switched to layer pellets when the chickens were older, but paid no attention to brand. I normally get food from a local feed store. It's Purina layer pellets. But if I...
  15. Lilion

    Match the egg to the hen!

    My three girls last distinctly different eggs. Brown, khaki greenish-tan, and blue-green. Here are the suspects...all mixed breeds. Eenie. My smallest lady, with no truly distinguishing features. But she's sweet. I suspect she's the khaki layer. Meanie. She has the look of an Easter...
  16. Lilion

    Oh my! Rooster kills owner!

    My big brother loves to tease me about, well, everything. He sent me this today. https://www.foxnews.com/world/irish-rooster-violent-past-kills-man-attack-back-leg-court
  17. Lilion

    Direction of raised bed

    I've lived in shade for years but finally have a large sunny yard. I'm going to start small with a long, raised bed, say 8x3. Should I run it east-west or north south? That is to say, what directions should the short ends point?
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    Does it take a while for combs to turn red?

    Yesterday I noticed my black hen's comb wasn't as red as the other chickens. She's about 8 months old, I'd guess. They just started laying in the last two weeks. When she was little her comb was nearly black. As of last November I have a pic where it was still gray. Will it eventually turn...
  19. Lilion

    Laying in front of the pop door

    My girls seem to have decided they MUST lay by the waterer next to the pop door. This morning, my husband brought me two eggs, apparently laid last night, because I just got 3 more! They previously were squeezing in between the water and wall, so I filled it with wood. Husband found the two...
  20. Lilion

    Our first dozen - on the floor. 🤔

    Took 8 days, but my 3 girls gave us a dozen eggs. At least, 2 of the 3...I'm pretty sure one isn't laying, based totally on the appearance of the eggs. All 3 hens look totally different from each other. Now if they'd lay in the nice nest boxes, instead of the poopy coop floor. I've pot golf...
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