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I am sadly still on a long and arduous bumblefoot journey with two of my chickens. One had an extremely bad case which has been operated numerous times now by our vet and has made a lot of progress. We're still on epsom baths every day for both girls, and foot wraps with honey or...
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I have recently taken charge of my boyfriend's (now our) chickens and two of the three seem quite skinny to me. The third is a Coucou de Rennes and is huge, so I'm wondering if I'm just comparing them to her. How can I tell if the other two really are underweight without...
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I'm a painter and working on a series of oil paintings of women with birds. I've just started a large piece of a woman holding two chickens -inspired by my recent chicken adventures! I would love to paint this from original references and thought it would be fun to ask around...
Our biggest chicken girl has very serious bumblefoot so we are having to completely re-think our coop and run. It was built by my partner and his friend before they had ever had chickens so is not 100% practical. There are a lot of hard edges that we need to remove; for example the roosts are...
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I joined the forum yesterday looking for advice on a problem we've been having with one of our chickens. It's been a bit stressful so I'm just getting around to introducing myself!
I live in the Limousin region of France with my partner, our dog, cat and three lovely chicken...
This is a follow-up question to a thread I posted earlier today -https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-with-a-fat-foot.1257674/
So, thanks to the lightning fast responses in the previous thread, our chicken just had surgery for her very large bumble foot courtesy of our local farm...
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I'm new to the chicken forum and would be very grateful for any advice that you could offer to help out our chicken - Catherine Zeta Jones.
We live in rural France and have three chickens that we keep for their eggs/ as pets. It's difficult to get advice here as people in this...