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    Tumor on chicken

    Mo, our 5 year old Cochin, has a tumor on her head next to her comb. (See photos) She’s eating, drinking, forging, and once in a blue moon, lays an egg. The other chickens leave it alone. It’s not obstructing her vision. She’s still a chunky girl even fatter than her sister. Last year we had a...
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    Mill Food Recycler for chickens

    We saw this product that you can put in your kitchen. It turns leftover food into food for chickens. But I wanted to know the opinion of the group here. I would use it with their layering feed and not as a primary food source. The website claims... "Mill is the easiest, cleanest way to turn...
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    New roo, older hens

    Let me give you the dynamics… currently we have 8 hens. 1 that’s 7 years old, 1 at 5 years of age, 3 that are 3 years old, 3 that are 4 months old. When we got the 4 chickens this last March, we were surprised to know that our speckled Sussex was a rooster (He’s absolutely gorgeous though)...
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    Hen or Rooster- speckled sussex edition..

    We have a 16 week speckled Sussex (Demetrius) that seems to have developed a larger redder comb and waddle faster than the 3 other chickens we received at the same time, born the same day. (Brahma, black sexlink, and Delaware) And seems to have longer tail feathers then usual female Sussex. She...
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    Medicine for chicken

    I am absolutely petrified to shove my finger in my chickens mouth to give her the two pills the vet prescribed her. (She had a non cancerous tumor on her foot and needed it removed). She’ll be on the medicine for the next two weeks. I’ve tried wrapping in in cheese, grapes, watermelon...
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    Is this a good idea?

    I have a dilemma... over the last month, ground squirrels have been getting into the coop, eating the feed, and eating/stealing the eggs. I fortified the coop, sprayed pepper powder/paste in and around the coop, and mixed it into their food. I collect the eggs often. Because we let the chickens...
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    how to reintroduce 2 bully hens to flock

    We separated 2 of the 9 hens about fall last year. One (Hen A) was mercilessly picking on one of our other hens to the point I couldn't keep feathers on her head and a new wound kept appearing. And we felt bad for always separating just her until she healed enough (no blood). The other hen (Hen...
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    Pinless Peepers

    I have 2 bully hens. 1 who is just trying to exert dominance, the other, we believe she thinks she is a rooster (she's mounting some of our other hens and is definitely top of the pecking order). If I catch chicken 1, I'll put her in timeout. We wanted to use pinless peepers but were curious...
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    Tips and tricks for Salmon Faverolle

    We currently have a Salmon Favorelle who is getting picked on by the flock. Total of 9 hens (4 we got last year and the other 5 were another set from a few years ago). She was 1 of 4 that we got last year, but is the only Salmon Faverolle. She is so sweet and docile. We separated her when we...
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    Mites, everywhere

    We have had an ongoing problem with mites. On our chickens, yard, coop, kids play structure... Used diatomaceous earth and prayed the chickens two times a week, gave them a dust bath container with it, sprayed frequently hang-out spots in the yard with D.E., sprayed the inside the coop with...
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