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    Need Help Treating New Birds

    Hi y'all! My neighbor is experiencing financial difficulties over her feed bill and is letting me have some of her flock. The thing is: some of the chickens have leg mites. I am setting up a separate quarrantine pen for all these birds, which will later contain rabbit hutches and a vegetable...
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    Worming goats with ivermectin - can I feed the milk to my chickens?

    Hi y'all. I'm going to be worming my heavy milkers today with ivermectin. I hate to waste all that milk, but they are losing condition and I have to worm them now. Can I give this milk to my chickens and still eat their eggs? I'm gonna post this on BackYardHerds too, but I'd love y'all's...
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    Drunk Chicken?

    I have my first hatch of chickens (7 weeks old) outside in the chick pen next to the big birds. They roost in the coop with the big birds at night. I have noticed one of these little guys acting progressively stranger and stranger for the last 4 days. The first day he ran at top speed right...
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    Here's one of the freaks!

    Hi! Newbie here. I'm raising three hatches at present, and this last batch had some different colors. So I'm wondering if any of y'all can help me figure out what breed the parents might be, then maybe I can figure out who created the babies I've got. First off, I know I have two RIR hens...
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    Jello Egg? No shell. What's up?

    Hi there y'all. I just collected a "jello egg". It's a little bit bigger than the rest. It's not that it has a thin shell. It doesn't have ANY shell. Just a kind of clear matte skin. When I held it up to the light, I could see a yolk. It's not going to go into the incubator like the rest...
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    Newbie needs advice on hen with swollen face, please!

    Hi I'm a newbie here, just got some chickens from a neighbor in November: Gold Laced Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, Black Star, and Phoenixes. She had too many and they were on the scrawny side. I fed them well, and all are doing well now, except one. She is a RIR, about 6 months old, and...
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