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A while back my hen named Turkey lost some of her feathers on her throat. The dumb other ones keep plucking her feathers out there and she is, once again, bare and red in that area. She will get pin feathers and the others pluck them out, I've witnessed them. And Turkey doesn't...
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1 wk and 1d ago I treated my hens with permithrin dust and cleaned out the coop and sprayed it with permithrin concentrate. As of this past Friday, they were still losing feathers, etc so on Sunday (yesterday) I gave them a dose of ivermectin pour on, redusted them, and did the coop all...
Let me just say... this spring has not been easy
Poultry dust on the girls and permithrin spray in the coop has apparently not worked. I have resorted to using ivermectin, poultry dust, and again spray the coop. I plan to do this tomorrow... Any thoughts pls on off label dosage for hens? I have...
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So, one of my hens has laid at least 2 soft shelled eggs (2 separate occasions). One of them broke but I could see all the "shell" and the second one was still intact. Interestingly, I found both of these on the droppings board which means she was on the roost when she laid them...
Hi everyone.. I have 6 backyard hens that are almost 1 year old. They have been laying for 5 months or so. They have been so loud since they started laying. Some days are better than others but sometimes they will be so loud for hours on end, especially one of them. She is going on 6 hours of...
Hi peeps! I posted on 2/28 about my ~ 9 month old hen losing feathers around her throat. Please see the picture below.... She has since started to regrow those feathers. Today 3/22 I noticed that she is missing feathers on the back of her head!!!! Not the back of her neck, but her head! I am...
I tried to get better pictures but I had another one pecking my butt and this one was trying to fly away from me lol
This is my ~9 month old black australorp named Pepper. It is still late winter here in NE USA, about 35 degrees or so. We have had some warm days and I read chickens this young...
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I have six ~9 month old hens. They have been laying for about 3 months and I live in a cold, northern climate.
One of my buff orpingtons is so loud... she starts up right when it is light out or even just barely. Usually around 6:30am. Some days she isn't that incessant and some days...
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I have 6 backyard hens that are about 9 months old and have been laying for about 3 months already. They're laying really reliably, eat well, none look lethargic or sick, seem to be keeping their weight, laying reliably. I bought them all as day old from Murray and they are all...