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    Saga of the 10 y.o. hen continues... how to get a chicken to eat?

    I have one chicken remaining from when I first started keeping hens in 2011. She was doing surprisingly well, but she's had a rough couple of weeks. First she got wounded when my over-energetic rooster mounted her and gashed her sides, and then I discovered that she had poultry lice. I've been...
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    poultry lice - can I use farm fly spray on hens?

    I found poultry lice on one of my chickens yesterday. This morning I thought it would be prudent to check the whole flock, and sure enough, I've got an infestation. Not too serious yet, but I'd like to treat it as soon as possible. Yesterday I bought a spray containing permethrin at our local...
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    poultry lice on wound (warning: graphic photo)

    I posted a few days ago about gauze stuck to my hen's wound, and I was able to get it off, but now we're dealing with another crisis... poultry lice! I think that's what they are, anyway. I didn't notice anything yesterday, but when I cleaned out her wound today, I noticed some flat, tan insects...
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    gauze stuck to wound

    One of my hens was recently injured by one of my roosters (his nails gashed her sides when he mounted her), and I cleaned it out and covered it with gauze and a wrap. Today, when I tried to remove the gauze from the wound, it was stuck. I'll use non-stick gauze next time, but any tips for...
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    pecking problem

    I have a flock of 12 chickens, and a few months ago, I noticed that several of them had bare, red patches on their backs (near the tail) and on their necks. One hen in particular is quite aggressive, so I put pinless peepers on her a month or two ago, but that doesn't seem to have helped. The...
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