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    my new arrivals

    Well, one of my exchequers went broody so i thought I would give her 6 eggs to sit on, they were all white exchequer eggs, the rest of my hens lay brown eggs, turns out they were all duds so I removed them, she still insisted on sitting, so I gave her 6 brown eggs. One of the eggs was bad 3...
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    Anyone had this before with worms

    I went into the coop to clean the poop boards day before yesterday and there was a poop that looked like a MEDUSA HEAD. Nice firm poop with about a dozen worms sticking out just like Medusa's head. I am presuming these are round worms, to me that is what they looked like but they weren't moving...
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    Sour crop? distended belly

    Need help with what to do with this one. I've read the article on sour crop and will start treatment tomorrow but my girl has a very distended belly. I know she has been laying soft shelled eggs and gave her some calcium tablets and I gave her a soak in warm water with epsom salts to clean her...
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    Wool for nesting

    I get my frozen cat food delivered in plastic recyclable sacks with sheep wool as the liner. I was wondering would it be alright to use this wool as nesting material. Any thoughts peeps.
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    Hen kept getting off eggs

    I gave my hen 6 eggs to sit on as she is well broody this was 11/04/2021 I left her in the coop with all the others, big mistake, as as she got off to feed, drink and dustbathe another hen got in to lay and she just went into another nest box. When I got home from work I checked her and put her...
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    newbie

    Hi I'm Janice married to Phil, We have 16 to our flock 6 Rangers 8 Black Stars and 2 Wyandotte Banties (courtesy of Phil who had gone to pick up 4 chicks for a broody hen told not to get banties or cock birds) 1 a hen and 1 a rooster Hmmmm What happened there? They are all free range, no fences...
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    Newbie

    (1) We are new to chicken keeping only had them since April (2) We had 8 chickens but one got poorly and had to be put down then we got 4 1 day old chicks for one that had gone broody but only three of those survived. (3) The original 8 were hybrids the 4 new chicks 2 were RIRs and 2 are...
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