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    Lingering Illness and sick bay

    From what I gather everyone appreciates a detailed thorough post here, so sit back. Backyard Flock: 6 hens (2 Barnyard red coming up on a year came to me in spring from less than ideal conditions), one Black Australorp and one Golden Laced Wyandotte- both born first of July acquired as chicks...
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    A very pretty EE

    Bought as hen day old Chick 8 weeks ago but I am Maybe seeing something else. My signs bright defined comb, quilt pattern feathers, tail feathers turning down, behavior likes to challenge everyone.
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    First time treating Bumblefoot plan

    Context I am a lawyer by trade I did not go into the medical field for a reason. I can manage poop all day long, not my favorite thing but just a fact of life, I’m a mom and have had cats and dogs all my life. Thing is as soon as we start to talk about blood and puss and ....I start to get...
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    Morning check in Big relief

    Whew babies seem just fine after their first night in their outside apartment. They are officially 3 weeks old today. The thermometer says it got to down to 61 deg in box with straw but it was a about 8 inches from nesty area where chicks slept that had even more straw piled in from so I would...
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    All locked up and Sleeping soundly tonight

    My first coop just came with farm block locks and my expansion went to wire and wrong hardware was purchased and we needed a place for chickens to spend the night so also got a farm block lock, albeit a thick heavy over head block. Since today was the day babies were moving into downstairs...
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    Crowd source check on Integration Plan

    3 Hens are RIR about 8-9 months old. They free range in back yard, lots of bush and cover. 3 Chicks were acquired as “day old” on July 1 (Best I can tell looks like they were hatched at least few days earlier). One Black Australorp (big girl and she knows it very friendly), 1 golden laced...
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    NCD/IB Vaccine dosing for chicks- checking my math

    Problem: Live vaccine comes in bottle for 10,000 doses; I have 3 chicks I spoke to my avian vet who says to use 50 gallon for dilution and I can scale down everything since again noas needed I decided I could handle making 10 gallon total= 2000 doses so ratio of 1/5 If there are 160 cups in...
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    Doubling my flock-Chick trio

    Introducing Quiche aka Kiki the black australorp, Nugget The Americana and Fritata aka Frida the golden laced Wyandotte
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    ND/IB vaccine procurement

    I’m in Northern California, I have (3) 9 ish month old RIR hens they are IB carriers. The vet told me I could bring in new birds because there is a vaccine. I got chicks yesterday. We are practicing strict bio security. The vaccine is administered at day 10 and day 16. my question is that...
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    My first brooder set up

    Back and forth, round and round, rescues, local breeder chicks, local breeder grow outs, hatchery order, feed store, now or later in fall or in spring or in a year. Well sometimes you just lean in and go for it. So we have feed store golden laced Wyandotte, Black Australorp and the Americana...
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    Blankish slate For roost position

    Another post about my Weasly Burrowesque style coop. Where to put the roosts? so for the one night they had the existing cross bar which one chicken used the others slept on the floor and pooped every where there wasn’t straw. 🙄 after cleaning it out I will lay linoleum, put in nest boxes...
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    Best laid plans-lawyer not a carpenter

    Today was major construction day of the coop expansion. I’ve planned and drawn and measured for weeks. I have watched you tube, read articles studied basic carpentry articles. I gathered supplies including a nice pallet and a bunch of decent cheap lumber and supplemented a bunch from store...
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    Roll Out nest box: Front or back

    I’m making some roll out nesting boxes for my coop expansion they will have fake grass pads for nesting material. Quick question Should eggs roll to the front or back? I have seen both and my set up allows for both. If collection is in back then birds are facing a back wall of nesting area...
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    Argy-bargy check

    Background New chicken owner as of Easter but not totally impulse buy though newbie mistake didn’t go with established breeder and ended up with sick chickens three almost laying Rhode Island Reds. Blood test says they are carriers for infectious bronchitis. All respiratory symptoms have...
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    All over the place anxious new chicken mama.

    I’m a new chicken mama. I have have spent dozens upon a dozens of hours studying. I have three Rhode Island reds. They were maybe 7 months when I got them at Easter. Lettie the larger lighter colored one, Mac with a short comb and big attitude seems like lowest in pecking order, and Cupcake...
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    Gwethrien chicken tamer

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Definitely new to chickens, we got Our first chickens Saturday before Easter (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 3 (3) What breeds do you have? Rhode Island Red (4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard...
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