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    Oral thrush vs canker?

    I have a 4yo Speckled Sussex hen who has had awful breath for a few weeks now. Crop functioning normally. Still has an appetite, but is uncomfortable eating and is producing a lot of saliva. Inside her mouth she has white/creamy coloured lesions. I've tried treating with...
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    Post-op care after crop surgery. Hen not gaining weight.

    So here is the saga of Echo the two year old Easter egger hen. Echo stopped laying late August/Early September and I believed she was starting a long, slow molt. She's the bottom of the pecking order and is very nervous of people, so she's always a little stressed and flighty. In the spring...
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    PSA for deworming your chickens *pictures

    So I don’t like to indiscriminately deworm my animals so as not to contribute to resistance. I was able to get fecals done on my horses, only one of three had any significant work load. Because of COVID protocols the clinic that I use for my dog and chickens has been hesitant to do fecals...
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    Owners of chickens with slow/pendulous crop unite! Anyone use a crop bra?

    Quick backstory. I've got a 4yo speckled sussex hen who stopped laying in early May and then developed sour crop. I was concerned she had a reproductive issue but treated the sour crop anyway. I was about to throw in the towel when my vet advised me to "do the opposite of tube feeding". I...
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    Hen with slow crop and weird head movement.

    A little background on Speck. She’s a Speckled Sussex hen, at least 3 years old, possibly older, she was already laying when I got her 1.5yrs ago. In November I got a new bird and Speck started sleeping in one of the nest boxes. She’s always the first to roost so I figured she just didn’t like...
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    Likely internal layer

    I'm sad to say that I think time is almost up for my poor Lacey. She's the double laced barnevelder in my avatar. I've got a soft spot for her because she figured out as a young pullet that she could hop up on my shoulder for extra treats. Anyway, she's just over a year old. She started...
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    Soft shelled egg and crop not emptying? Stress?

    My one year old cream legbar has been my best layer this spring. She has rarely, if ever missed a day in the last couple months. No supplemental light, they get a 16% grower with oyster shell on the side since I've also got some young chicks/pullets. Her shells aren't quite as hard as the...
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    Turning nest box into dust bath box?

    I'll start by saying that I'm in Canada and I've always struggled with being able to provide a dust bathing area for the girls through the fall/winter/spring. The run is frozen and while it is covered it still gets wet so an outdoor dust bath is out of the question from the end of October until...
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    GRAPHIC - post mortem pictures

    Hi everyone Just a warning these pictures are graphic. My 9 month old barred rock stopped laying around New Years. She also started experiencing weight loss and diarrhea. Treated for coccidiosis, worms, and a course of Baytril. Recently she began experiencing weakness/paralysis in her...
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    Two sick pullets

    I've got two pullets (one barred rock and one cream legbar) who both stopped laying at the beginning of January. Around that time I found about 4 soft shell eggs, couldn't figure out which one was doing it though. I *think* it was the legbar though. Prior to that the barred rock had some...
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    Ontarians! Higher protein all flock feed options?

    Does anyone have a source for an all flock feed that has more than 16% protein? I don't feed a layer feed as I generally have either a pullet or two, or someone is molting. I just feed oyster shells on the side. TSC has Rolling Acres grower/finisher that is only 16%. And our local feed store...
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    Canadians! Where do you get your grit and oyster shells?

    Last year I moved back to Ontario and this spring we bought a small acreage so I finally have chickens again. My girls have a predator proof run and a 30' x 50' run that they go out in when we're home. I stole a couple shovel fulls of sand and gravel from the driveway, but I'd rather have a...
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