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I wanted to share a little bit about our experience with fleas and chickens.
A few months ago we noticed with horror that a rat had found its way into our chicken run and nade a nest...
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Hope everyone is home safe and spending quality time with their flock :)
Our easter egger bantam (about 2 years old) has a protracted vent.
We cleaned her up and gently pushed it back in twice now.
The first time it stayed in place for a few days, today as soon as we let her go, she...
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Our little Easter egger looks like she is molting but it has now been a few months and feathers around her neck are not coming back in. Feathers lower look strange as well. She has also been sleeping on top of the coop for a few weeks. When I put her in she stays in with the others but if...
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I have a run which is a dog run reinforced with chicken wire, perfect for a climbing plant. I was wondering what plant/herb you would recommend planting that could climb up the fencing and provide shade to the run as well as be a tasty...
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We have a small flock of 4 bantam chickens, all different types. Our Easter egger has been laying regularly but we recently noticed some changes in her eggs. ( see attached pictures).
She gets picked on regularly by one of the other chicks and has lost a few feathers in her neck. Not sure...
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We are in southern California where fleas are quite prevalent. We have 4 lovely bantams and a little dog. Our dog seems to be getting fleas from our back yard. I recently read about nematodes and would like to give them a try but is there any risk for our chicks? They free roam in the...
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Our Bantam has been laying one egg a day for a little over 2 weeks. The eggs all came out perfectly clean.
We noticed her rear feathers are very dirty, crusty even perhaps from some leaky stool she might have had. She is eliminating fine but has stopped laying eggs the last 2 days.
Do...
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We have 4 Bantams that are now sharing a coop and run. We used to have a pecking issue which seems to be resolved.
So recently we have noticed our birds running up to each other, puffing up their chest and raising their heads up high, like they are ready for a fight but then nothing...
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We have four bantam chicks - 1 silkie, 1 easter egger, 1 mottled cochin and 1 buff brahma. They are nearly 5 weeks old an have been happy and healthy until the last couple days.
Yesterday we noticed two long feathers in the brooder box, but thought they just naturally fell out...
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We are situated in Southern California zone 9, in the next 2 weeks the temps are 75 to 80 during the day and in the 50s at night.
Our coop is similar to this one except it only has the top air vent:
https://www.mypetchicken.com/images/product_images/Popup/Clubhouse8553-2.jpg
Our 4...
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I have 4 non vaccinated bantams that are now about 3 weeks old. We have been slowly giving then pulled plants from the garden with their roots and dirt for them to be introduced to the native soil. They have started dust bathing in the pine shavings and I would like to know when would be...