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    My chicken is broken and lays weird eggs!

    First off, I’ve read everything online and have tried all the obvious stuff. It started about 3 weeks ago: Egg bound!: or so I thought. She acted all weird and droopy and penguiny and wouldn’t eat. So we brought her into the porch ER cage, gave her nutridrench, soaked her in an epsom salt bath...
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    MA is crazy cold tonight. How are you coping?

    I recommend tequila... But seriously, the temps are dropping super cold tonight. My 4 ladies are 7 months old and I’m afraid they’re not downy enough for this wild temp change. They’re coop is clean and the vents are more closed than normal. I can bring them into a 3-season porch if necessary...
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    OUCH! Not sure where to post this.

    This is a human problem. My ladies get yard time and treats daily, but today my 15wo BR jumped up on my forearm and opened up my forearm. I’m deathly allergic to bacitracin (google it, there are a few of us on earth), so i flushed my arm with water and peroxide. I’m just having a sad. I was so...
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    Gypsy Moths have a purpose! They’re chicken toys/snacks.

    My ladies were too little to enjoy the caterpillars, but love love love the moths buzzing around! There are a couple of great threads about Japanese beetles, but we don’t have them in Massachusetts where I am. Gypsy Moths, on the other hand, we have zillions :wee
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    Chicken bedtime, and other freaking weird quirks!

    So, my 4 ladies are 12+ weeks old and still look like ladies, so yay! But they are driving me nutty... First: They want to sleep on the roost in their run instead of going in their coop. I’ve lowered the roost twice in case it was too high. I give them supervised “yard time” as soon as the sun...
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