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  1. MissDolly

    Impacted Crop Round #2

    We are on round two of an impacted crop. She was doing well for about 7 weeks. I saw in another post “tube watering”. what is it?? I used a syringe and gave her water and (a tiny bit of olive oil 1x day) throughout the day, removed her pellets and massaged her rock hard crop. In three days it...
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    Safe Alternative to Dangerous Surgical Neutering of Roosters

    We got 4 “female” chicks from TC, one turned out to be rooster. He is 5 1/2 mos old now and we cannot have a rooster where we live. We have forever homes for all our pets, so we looked into getting “Roo” neutered. We talked to an avian Vet. She told us they no longer recommend or perform this...
  3. MissDolly

    Sunflower Cottage is almost complete!!

    Hubby has worked tirelessly, every weekend since Jan to give our chickens a nice large coop and run. There is just some trim & paint touch up to do. It’s just beautiful & the run gives our girls lots of room to relax in. We also installed solar cameras in their coop and run. It’s nice to be able...
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    Pink rash on legs & belly??

    I noticed a red rash on both my Rhode Island Red’s legs yesterday. It was still there this am when I checked on them. Neither of my other two chickens have it. She also has a small red patch on her belly just below her vent. She may have gotten bit by fire ants as they were digging around some I...
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    Sunflower Cottage is almost done!!

    We’ve been working on our new coop, “Sunflower Cottage”, for months (he only has weekends) and it’s almost ready. We’ve been designing it as we go along and it is so beautiful! Although we live in FL, I’m a New England girl it’s got a Cape Cod feeling to it. It is well ventilated and has an...
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    My Rhode Island Red is Laying strange eggs & I cannot figure out what is going on.

    They eat Nature’s Best Orgaic egg layer pellets and late in the day a treat of non-gmo scratch combined with Garden delight and dried grubs or organic fruits & veggies. I don’t know how old is is. Any suggestions??
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    Emergency... Labored breathing, Lethargic cant stand vent discharge

    When I went out to check for eggs I noticed my Buff Orpington chicken was lying on the ground and would not get up. There is a white sticky discharge from her vent, her waddle is pink. She’s seem very sick. Any ideas she seems to be haveing difficulty breathing. She is breathing with her mouth...
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    Broody Orpington

    I’m pretty new to having chickens. I have an assorted flock of 5 hens. My Orpington began to stay in the nesting box on Sunday. So I started to take her out of the nesting box and put her back in the coop with the other girls. This has not been working. Last night I went to see if she was on the...
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    I just “inherited” 5 chickens

    We just bought a house and the guy asked us if we wanted to keep the chickens. They looked healthy, so we said yes. After cleaning out their filthy coop and run & getting the basics covered, we see we need to make it better, larger & more accessible. I have three chickens I need for dinner...
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