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    Missing Feathers

    My birds are missing feathers. I checked them a scazillion times with magnifying glasses by the vent, head and under the wings. I treated 2 of them with frontline as a test. I just inspected the nest boxes. In the heat of the summer all i saw in one box was a few little bugs running...
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    Coturnix Quail

    I hatched some Coturnix quail. I put them outside in a coup with a screen bottom. I am finding them extremely dirty both inside the cage and cleaning under the cage. They dirty everything. I feel cruel because I keep removing things like the pan with sand. They love taking a sand bath...
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    My Chicken Stopped Laying Eggs Why?

    Last February I rescued what I was told was a 1 year old Red Sex link. After her rehabilitation, she laid an egg a day starting from April. She was like an egg laying machine. One morning in June she did not look well. When I came home from work, she was back to her normal self. No eggs for...
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    Diarrhea in my Easter Egger

    My Easter Egger had bad diarrhea all last summer. I sent her stool for a test and it came back positive for roundworms. So I treated all the chickens with Panacur. They were great all winter. The diarrhea started again on my Easter Egger a few months ago. It is very loose and dark brown. I...
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    Am I Done Treating My Hen For Possible Foot Mites?

    I rescued my Red Star Link a month ago. She was found in a shed with no food or water in temperatures that reached -20 on many night. When I picked her up she was skinny and had very little feathers. Looked like a severe molt. I kept her in my shed away from my flock. After two weeks she...
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    Can anyone ID This Rescue (Red Sexling?)

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    Sour Crop?

    My Australorp hatched last April. She was really healthly. They started laying towards the end of the summer but I am not sure if she ever started laying. One day she got lethargic, stopped eating and stood in the corner for a week. One Friday night I got home and was going to aspirate her...
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    Rescued Road Island Red

    I rescued a Road Island Red. I am told she is about 1 1/2 years old. I found her in an old barn in the country with no food and water for I don't know how long. She was the only survivor. When I picked her up, it appears that she is coming out of a molt as new feather shoots are coming in...
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    Heated Nipple Waterers. Do they work?

    It’s 9 degrees out and I just switched to a heated nipple waterer. After a few hours of showing them plus the fact that they are getting thirsty, they have been pecking at it constantly. I’m nervous that they are not getting enough water. Can someone reassure me?
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    A Few Questions

    My hens had a bad case of ringworms. As per the vet, I treated them with Panacur. Ten days later I gave them a second dose. All their stool is firm and round and looks good. I just noticed that my Striped Plymouth has a little poop stuck to her feathers. It’s so cold out I just cleaned it...
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    Mother's Apple Cider Vinigar and Yogurt

    My Easter Egger had diarrhea all summer. I figured I would finally take some advice before bringing her stool in for testing. So for the past month I have them on ACV 2 tbl spoons per gallon all the time and once a week I give them probiotic yogurt. This morning after well over a month I...
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    Easter Egger with diarhea

    I have posted about this before. My Easter Egger has had diarrhea on and off the entire summer. I finally thought the problem was solved when the weather cooled down. But she has the runs again. I started adding ACV to the water 4 days ago. I was not home for 3 days. When I returned last...
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    Plexiglass for winter covering

    My chicken coup is designed where the run area consists of 6 screen squares. It gets cold in my area of the northeast during the winter. I was thinking of using plexiglass to cover the screen area. I would leave 2 inches for ventilation along the top. I was also contemplating leaving one...
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    Not sure what to call this?? I have a sick black chicken?

    I thought having chickens was going to be easy but it seems like I am constantly worried about one of them. I have a black chicken. Can't remember off hand the breed, but it might start with an A. I noticed last week she was making funny noises like she had the hiccups. Shortly after, she...
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    Diarhea with my Easter Egger

    I'm starting to get concerned about my Easter Egger which I hatched. When she was about 1 week old she got pasty put. She was very sick. I bathe her and cleaned her vent. Within 2 days she was fine. I assumed it was because she is a glutton and ate everyone's meal worms. Now she is about 22...
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    Keeping Hawks out of my run

    When I built my mother her pond, I was told that if I ran fishing line over the water in a few spots, it would keep the hawks out. They would come down and get a look at the line and get scared they would get tangled in it. Did anyone ever try this for over their chicken run?
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    Egg Laying

    I read an article that said a chicken is like a human in that they are born with a certain amount of eggs that they will lay throughout their lifetime. Does that mean if I don't have my chickens lay during the winter, I will get more years out of them producing eggs during the summer? Or will...
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    Lighting

    People have varying views on whether to light the coop or not. From my past experience raising birds and working in a pet store when I was younger, I always believed in a little night light so in the event a bird gets startled during the night, it can find its way back to its perch. I had a...
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    To clip or not to clip wings

    I want to give my 12 week old pullets a bit more room so I constructed a 4 foot high fence around their coop. I started opening the door a few days ago and they were happy to get out and peck around eating every bug and weed in sight. Last night one lead the way and flew over the fence. The...
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    To run or not to run? To roost or not to roost?

    I have two questions. First, I noticed that once I removed the heat lamp from my coup, my 8 week old chicks stopped roosting in the coop at night. So I removed all the high perches outside the coop and put in a red night light. Now they go in the coop again at dusk. But they look bored with...
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