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    Silly question on breed a hen

    We have two hens that we would LOVE to have chicks from. I'm all too familiar with breeding AKC dogs but I don't know the first thing about getting chicks from our two favorite hens. We bought them as Americauna's (?) but the more we have researched we believe they are EE'rs. That isn't the...
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    My Anna won't eat chicken feed?

    I started a post about her losing 1/2 her weight. We have been watching her and haven't seen her eat any of her chicken feed. We thought maybe she didn't like the Layena any more so we went and bought a couple different types of food, Organic and Flock Raiser. She won't eat either of these...
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    My Anna is 1/2 her weight

    On August 28th we weighed all of our girls and in grams Anna weighed in at 2270g. She looked like she was starting to molt as she had some feather that need to be replaced. Most of the time we don't need to pick up our girls when we put them up at night as we bait them and they all just go...
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    Scalpel or punch for Bumblefoot treatment

    Ok, I have attempted surgery on several of our girls and it has worked on most of them. But a couple of them I am not getting deep enough or getting all the infection out and we had to take two girls to the vet yesterday. Can you say ouch, our bill was over $323 I don't know if I am afraid to...
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    What do you keep in an Emergency Kit

    I want to make sure I have what I need in case something happens to one of our girls. Currently in our kit we have Vet wrap, white gauze, sharp scissors, tweezers for taking care of wrapping. As for wound care we have Vetericyn (the dog eye wash) Silver Sulfadiazine, Pick No More, Vet Rx...
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    Did I get it all? or do chickens scab?

    On Aug. 28. I removed a pretty large bumble from Forest's foot. Part of which was sticking up between her toes. I thought I got it all out. Here is what I got and there was no longer a protrusion on top of her toes Tonight we did a check on her and she has been acting just fine but I looked and...
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    All this talk about Bumblefoot now I have to deal with it

    I just look at the bottom of Niagara's foot and noticed a decent size bumble so we will be treating it in a couple hours. I have Meloxicam tablets 15mg and have a pretty percise pill cutter but how in the world do I figure out the dosage for her. She weigh 2100 kg and I book marked this page...
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    Small growth / swelling by Buff Willow's eye

    We noticed this about a week and a half or so ago by Willow's eye. We have been keeping an eye on it, (no pun intended) and it has very slowly been getting a tad bigger. There doesn't seem to be any cuts or anything in the eye and it doesn't seem to be bothering her at all. None of our other...
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    All the sudden very odd and soft tip eggs

    Anna is a RIR and has been a good layer. She is 1.5 yrs old and we have had since 5 days old as with most of our girls. Right now all of our girls have slowed WWAAYYY down on laying which isn't a big deal to us, we love them just the same :hugs Anyway, the past couple of eggs that Anna has...
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    Help! Our girls are walking in watery muck all day!

    We live in Arizona and right now we are in the monsoon season. We are getting anywhere from a half an inch to three quarters of an inch a day to every other day and our chicken runs are a mess. What is the best way to keep them dry? Is sand or pea gravel good for drainage and keeping things dry...
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    What is this on Hyde's face, fly irritation / bites?

    We noticed this yesterday but it seems to be a little worse today. We are having a lot and a lot of rain and there are tons and tons of flies so we're wondering if it could be flies bothering her? We have three coops and runs because we have discovered RIR's are bullies. She is in a run that has...
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    Red featherless tummy?

    We bought 3 Buff about 1.5 months ago and we thought we had everything worked out on getting the flock use to the new girls. Well seems that wasn't the case, 7 of the girls were all raised together and our three RIR were having no part of the largest Buff, but who looked the youngest. They...
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    Willow's comb has blood

    My hubby went out this morning to check on our girls and this morning noticed that her comb is injured. From what I can tell it looks like the injury is from the back. We have a total of 10 hens. Willow is a Buff that we bought, along with 2 other girls, about 1.5 months ago so the pecking...
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    Meds you should have on hand

    Ok, I have been reading a lot of posts in this heading and I'm really wondering, What are your "go to / must have on hand" meds / supplies for your chickens? I have 7 girls right now but come spring we are planning to add 6 more to our family. So far I have on hand vet wrap, 2" & 4"...
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    We are looking for 6 more chicks

    We are wanting 6 more chicks to add to our family and that is it. We have looked at hatcheries and they all have a HUGE minimum. We can't get eggs and hatch them as we are not set up for it and if we got roosters we would be in trouble, frankly we are not suppose to have chickens as it is...
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    Megs has a very sore foot

    I came home today and my hubby and daughter told me her foot was sore. I went out and my daughter held her and I looked at her foot real well. I couldn't see anything wrong with it visually. Our dog run which they run through to get to the back has some 3/4" gravel and the back yard now...
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    Looking for Girlfriends Only

    I'm hoping for some help We live in Central (Northern'ish) Arizona, Prescott, to exact and are looking to add to our flock. We have 7 hens now and we want to add another Barred Rock and White Leghorn. We are wanting a couple Buff Orphingtons and Black Copper Marans. Our daughter is...
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    Questions about first starting to lay

    My husband heard one of our girls in the nesting box this morning squawking for close to two hours. We have heard a couple other make a lot of racket when in there too. Is it common for them to squawk and take a while when they first start laying? We don't know which or how many of our 7 are...
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    Double Yolk'er Even!!!

    To continue from my other post about just getting our first eggs, the girl that was in the nesting box gave us our 4th egg in 24 hours. Hubby decided to cook them up so the three of us could try them and when he cracked open the largest of the 4 it was a double yolk'er! Haven't seen one of...
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    Will this nesting box set up work?

    Ok, all of our girls are almost 16 weeks old. I'm not quite sure what the signs are for getting ready to lay so we went ahead and put thier nesting boxes in. We lucked out and all our "girls" ended up being girls :yesss: Right now when you pet them they all go down to the ground. We have a...
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