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    Treating for salpingitis - ok to use probiotic?

    Hello fellow flock keepers! A while back, I posted a thread with concerns with a hen who was laying rubber eggs and had diarrhea with some worms. Treated for worms. Turned out to be salpingitis (she layed a lash egg 😞) . Thankfully, there is an avian vet in the area, as well as an avian lab...
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    Limping chicken / funky eggs

    Hello ~ would appreciate some advise from experienced chicken keepers. I have a 1.5 year old Black Australorp who came up lame yesterday. I immediately considered bumblefoot, though there is no scab, nor any evidence of a cut or puncture. I soaked her foot anyway (last evening and today)...
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    Broody vs. Bound

    Hey all! We have just passed our first year marker raising chickens, so pretty inexperienced. We have 10 hens and 1 rooster. They are all 1 year, 3 months old. I observed a hen in the nest box last evening around 6pm. The hens are out of the nest boxes by noon every day, so I found this...
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    Rooster behavior

    Hello to all of you chicken keepers ~ The past two days, I have observed our 1 year, 2 month-old rooster go up into the henhouse around 11am, after all but one egg has been laid (last hen in the nest box), have a good look around, scratch the bedding, cooing and calling his hens. He beds down...
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    return from a fox attack, only to be rejected

    We have a young flock of 11: 10 hens and a rooster. They are 15 weeks old. A fox attacked this morning around 8a, a red star went missing. Later this evening 7p while we were in the yard, another (or same?) fox attacked, this time a RIR. In one day, from 11 to 9. Then, when time to...
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