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    Please help on BIG long term bumblefoot problem

    After months (and I mean since about Sept), I have been using Tricede Neo on my hen's bumblefoot (tiny spot during so many months that did not change). Finally, She had a fully formed "scab" on the foot. This morning after a 15 minute soak in Epsom Salts I managed to pull out the kernel. I...
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    Feeding my hens

    I have a sparrow problem. my girls free range during the day but their coop is open with feeding buckets and water all day. I have a small doorway for my girls to enter and exit. so do the sparrows no matter what I try I cannot keep them out. I am now keeping the girls locked in the coop and...
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    Chicken apron keeps sliding off on one side.

    Help if you can. I really need my chickens to wear aprons/saddles. They have horrible feather picking habits that have no other solution -- tried everything, believe me! Here is the problem. I have both purchased and made chicken aprons (the ones that don't go over the head) for my...
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    Trial on treating bumblefoot without surgery...

    Folks, Just thought I'd post something I am attempting and will keep you informed of the progress. Did surgery on obvious bumblefoot on one of my hen's feet. Successful but very traumatic. The other foot was terribly swollen but no obvious scab or spot. Had been soaking her in epsom salts...
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    Seemingly severe bumblefoot but no scab

    Dear Friends, I appreciate all your site comments but I have a problem hen. She definitely had bumblefoot with scab on one foot. The other more swollen foot presented with only a tiny slightly larger than pin head brown dot. We did surgery on the scab foot and attempted it on the more...
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    Complications w/bumble foot

    Help please. Success w/one bumble foot surgery on one hen foot. The other foot was swollen badly, very tiny scab. When cut into foot, no kernel, no cheesy stuff, just blood. Sprayed with vetericyn, put on triple antibiotic and bandaged foot. After we stopped the bleeding. Did not know what...
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    Protein for chickens...

    Friends, again I am still at wits end regarding the feather pulling/pecking of my about 11 month old Rhode Island Red hens. I've done the pinless peepers (they learned how to still peck around them and it was just more difficult for regular eating from our buckets). I tried painting them...
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    Cinnamon to kill ants? Does it hurt my chickens?

    I have just read a remedy for ant problems --- cinnamon. We have huge "carpenter-type" ants and occasionally they sting my chickens. (And me). I have heard that cinnamon will get rid of them, but... I need to know if it will hurt my chickens. So far I have found nothing that is useful...
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    Tried everything any new suggestions?

    Got our RIR hens from a farmer when they were between 9 and 11 weeks old. They had been with many other hens of all ages and were all missing tail feathers. We were very new to chicken raising so we didn't know this might be a problem. That was October 2015. It is now May 2016. They are...
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    Ducklings and a heat lamp...

    Our ducklings are going to be 12 weeks old Monday. They are living in their outside house with a water source. Since they have never been exposed to cold cold temperatures until last night and it was sudden from 85 degrees in the daytime, we turned on a red heat lamp. Well, well, well...
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    Our new duck water system for inside the duck house.

    Hubby found these cup things from a seller in China. They work wonderfully. Outside is a water bottle that we can refill. We worried that they would eat straw (which they like to do - 6 weeks old) and then not have water while they were inside at night, etc.
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    Duck waterers...

    Just thought I would mention something we found out as new pekin duckling parents. Our "babies" HUGE, BIG 4 1/2 week old babies, did not do well with the standard chicken water bucket system recommended by our tractor supply store. It was one big mess. They got their bills in there but...
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    Pinless Peepers Success

    Friends, We have now done something we worried over doing but had no choice. Our girls are terrible feather pickers and feather eaters. All ten of our girls now have peepers on them. They adapted immediately to eating and drinking and jumping around on their roosts. I would recommend if...
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