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    Mites and molting question....

    I have had an awe full time trying to get rid of mites- for like a year and a half. I have tried everything, and nothing has worked. I separate their feathers down their back, and can always see some tiny black dots. I hadn't checked them for a month or so, work got crazy, etc., and so today, i...
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    What’s in the egg yolks....

    Last few eggs have these types of things in the yolks- anyone know what they are? Thanks Mary
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    Poo-balls on butt

    My bared rock has always seemed to have a poopy butt, way more so than the other chickens, but my chickens do co- exist with our dogs when they free range our entire yard, once a day right now as there are more shady spots that way in the heat of the day. The dogs (one especially) has been known...
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    Opinions wanted on treadle feeders

    does anyone gave experience with these type of feeders? Hoping to keep out other birds and rodents.... Thanks!
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    Plants in chicken run- making of a garden

    So part of my fenced yard is the chicken run, and I do like a garden, so I've been researching plants and trying different things. It's so hideous looking in the winter, all the mud and muck and it rains so much....so I am on a mission to try to have a garden- and chickens. So the grape plants I...
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    Coop size

    Hello- since I increased my flock from two to four, seamed a consensus that my coop was too small. So I found a crate, with a hinged door, so initially all I would need to do is add a door the chickens can access. Then add a real roof and attach run etc. later this spring and summer. my...
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    Coop details.....

    I am going to start building or accommodating - a shipping crate into a coop. I have investigated plans so I have my basic idea but have a couple questions. I have seen coops where wire mesh is over the inside "eves", what does this do? Also, for the base, some designs have cinder blocks...
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    Crop issue?

    Seemed like it was- sequestered her for 2 days with water only (w/ acv) and some massages, seemed clear on day two, so returned her to the run, but @8 hours later looks like this again. Should I have kept her out longer. Anyone with success in treating this? Or does anyone think it's not sour...
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    Integration process question

    I had been in the process of integrating two new pullets, @22 weeks old in with my two older hens. I had been having them spend time together, then seperating them for some periods, especially at night. Then one of the pullets got sick so I abandoned ship on integration while treating her. Now...
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    Must have been coccidiosis ! Transfer from another farm/ coop possible........

    I had posted a few times- my eater egger was ill and had been showing signs which seem to have a couple different possibilities....but she's great now, and if it had been egg binding, she wouldn't be, as no egg was passed. And she has clearly responded to the corid. So of course now I want to...
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    Egg bound hen.....?

    So I have been trying to integrate my two younger hens in with my two older hens. It's been a bit chaotic and there have been some squabbles. Today, my younger Easter egged is showing signs of being egg bound. Dropped tail, laying down a lot, kind of a red face, I think....poor thing, she must...
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    Integrating younger poulets

    I am in process of integrating two poulets into my older flock of two hens, one bared rock (she rules) and a Rhode Island Red. The poulets are an Easter eager @17 weeks, the other RIR @15 weeks. I have them living in their own space in the coop (about half) but wire seperating them from the...
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    Chicken feet

    My bared rock has a black spot on her toe, and on each leg shaft a flat hard raised spot- is this bumble foot?? Also I have been treating the black spot with cleaning and neosporin for about a month- I noticed it just after our ice storms in January. Any thoughts to the spot or? Thanks...
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    Integrating pullets into flock and feeding

    I am in the process of slowly integrating two pullets into my flock, (of two). Once they are, I was told pullets should not eat layer feed until they are laying. So how do I keep them from eating the layer feed, once they are all living together? Thanks! Mary
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    Placing fertile eggs under broody hen

    Hi- I was thinking of putting a few fertile Silkie eggs under a broody Rhode Island Red. I only have one other hen- a bared rock that rules the roost. Could there be pecking order issues when the chicks hatch? Thanks Mary
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    Small amount blood in chicken poop

    So question for experienced Chicken owners, I have had my two @7 monthes. So I was scooping their area (large enclosure) and noticed a tiny spot of bright red blood in the poop. A couple others too. Maybe the size of a pin head- if that, but it was there. My Rhode Island had been laying daily...
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    Scaly leg mites- GONE!

    Pretty amazing. About a week after ivermectin, and Vaseline rubbed into legs, (only once) they started to have patches of almost white super clean scales. This seemed to progress down the legs and today now their their feet too. (I only have two chickens). All tight scales now, creamy whitish-...
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    Mite clean up question...

    So in blasting the coop with water to flush out mites, out of the cracks and crevices - I know they are fairly hardy things- so am I just sending them flying out of the coop (or onto me) only to have them return later? as opposed to killing or removing them permanently. Water won't kill them- so...
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    Chicken Newbie Here

    Hi I live in Portland Oregon, and I have two chickens, a bared rock and Rhode Island Red. I have had them @ 1.5 Monthes. I kind of inherited them from friends,which I am thrilled about.....but have some questions about things going on.....I think having only two possibly creates some issues...
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