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    de-spuring a rooster

    A "Friend" who works at the local farm and garden store convinced me to foster a 3-4 month old Rhode Island Red rooster. He is starting to develop his spurs, they are just nubs now. I went through this with my previous rooster "BB". She said to use the Dr.Naylor Dehorning paste. Has anyone...
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    Wheezing hen, needs an antihistimine I think

    I have a 15 month old Auracona hen that is otherwise healthy who started wheezing severely tomight and I though she was going to die in my arms. I rinsed her out with water and coaxed her back to life but it was touch and go for a while. I emptied her crop by flushing it but her lungs sound...
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    I need help with diagnosis and treatment

    We lost Cybil last week, her symptoms were an enlarged area between her legs and under her vent and it was hard, I thought she was eggbound. She was 2 years and 4 months old and hasn't been laying for a few months. I also thought she had an impacted crop as it was also enlarged, I terated her...
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    Eating their own eggs

    My five almost 2 year old hens are not laying many eggs lately, I am lucky to get 5 a week. I know they are laying more but they are eating them befor I can get them out of the box. The problem is their shells are thin,they lay the egg in the egg box and peck at it to get it under their...
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    Chicks eating their own eggs

    My five almost 2 year old hens are not laying many eggs lately, I am lucky to get 5 a week. I know they are laying more but they are eating them befor I can get them out of the box. The problem is their shells are thin,they lay the egg in the egg box and peck at it to get it under their...
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    Consumer Cellular endorsement needed

    Hi, I guess this fits in to the "Random" part. I am thinking of switching to Consumer Cellular for Cell Phone serivce and I am looking for 2 things. 1. Can anyone give me a thumbs up or thumbs down on thier service? 2. They have a deal where if you are referred by someone who used Consumer...
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    Confused Rooster

    This may be the worng place to post this or it may be the right place to post this because I don't know if there is a right or wrong answer. I live in North Central Vermont. My coop is surrounded by snow, snow that is too deep to shovel out of the run so my 5 hens and one rooster spend a lot of...
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    Molting in winter

    I have a PBR hen, 21 months old that was eggbound a week ago so we took her inside to work it out, we live in Vemrmont. I think the couple of days inside triggered her to molt, now she is back in the coop but loosing most of her feathers, do you think I should have a houseguest again for a...
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    Oyster Shell / Calcium

    I have a 21 month old hen who became egg bound, she is OK now. One cause I read was not enough calcium in her diet, even though they have a container of Oyster Shell free choice I never see her at it, that doesn't mean she never takes any, I just heve never seen her at it. I am wondering, is...
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    Plucking feathers

    One of my Plymouth Barred Rock hens, 18 months old and a good layer is starting to pluck her own feathers off her back and side, she has a bald spot about the size of an egg. I am concerne with the cold Vermont winter coming very soon. Does anyone have a reason why she is doing this and what...
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    URGENT! What is this?

    [][/i ] I hope the pictures come out right: This is what one of my hens just laid after in the nesting box. It is a partially developed egg with a yolk with sometihng attached to it that is completely foreign to me, the outside is sort of like sandpaperish or like sharks skin and the inside is...
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    How do I tell if my hens have worms and how do I treat it?

    I think I remember reading once that if you put some of your chicken manure in a container and let it sit you will see if there are worms in it. After I clean the coop 3 times a day it all goes in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid on it and when it is about half full it all goes to the compost pile...
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    Hen not laying, age old problem.

    I have a 14 month old Golden Comet hen who was the runt when we got her, she had pasty butt and it was touch and go for a while but she soon became "Tinkerbelle the wonderchick" as she started laying the earliest and she put out many large and double yolk eggs. 3 months ago our daily production...
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    Old Bedding

    I am sorry if I am asking a question that has been asked and answered before, I searched and couldn't find the answer so here we go. I haven't cleaned out the coop completely since November, I am about to do it. When I pick up all the pine shavings and straw is ther any reason why I wouldn't...
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    Eating Frogs

    Is it normal and OK for my hens to eat frogs? They caught 2 today and after a wicked game of keep away and shaking it like crazy in an attempt to break it in to samller pieces I rescued the injured frogs and set them free in my pond. Should I just let it happen?
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    Loosing Feathers

    3 golden comets and 3 plymouth rocks including one rooster. One of the plymouth rock hens is bald on both sholders abouth the size of a quarter and she's loosing her feathers on her back near her tail. They are all just under 11 months old and none of the other girls are showing the same loss of...
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    Rooster Anatomy

    I have a 9 month old Plymouth Rock Rooster. I noticed him bringing his head around and scratching his back near the base of his tail feathers. There is a protuberene there that is surrounded by a redish area, the protuberence is a light off white color and not very big. I don't know if it is a...
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    Hen honks like a goose

    I have 5 hens and a rooster, all just under 9 months old. 3 Golden Comets that are great eggers and 3 Plymouth Rocks of which one is a rooster. I get to tell all myfriends "I have a handsome Rooster" I wish I had that line when I was single. Anyway, one of the Plymouth Rock girls used to...
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    Help, there's some blood

    I am in central Vermont, 5 below last night. I have 6 chickens, all 32 weeks old. 1 Plymouth Rock Rooster, 2 hens and 3 golden comet hens. The temp in the coop got down to 20 last night, it's not drafty in there though. I have pine shavings and hay on the floor, about 2-4 inches. They eat...
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    BIG egg

    I think Tinkerbelle the Wonderchick is living up to her advance billing. Today we pulled a 4 ounce egg from the nesting box, clearly twice the size of any other egg we have had, I have a feeling this isn't a double yolker, may be a single or a tripple but I just have a feeling it isn't a...
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