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    Bumblefoot Question

    I’m treating bumblefoot for the first time, on both feet, with 2 of my girls, and not sure if I’m doing it right. The first 2 pics are of the girl who has it the worst it one of her feet. I’m on day 5 of Epsom salt soaks and getting what I can from the wound, then packing with prid, gauze and...
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    Help me fix my 2 chickens!!

    Please help me diagnose and fix 2 of my girls ❤️ The first 2 pictures are of my Oliver Egger’s tail-end. At first I thought she was just molting and her feathers would grow back. But they haven’t. She’s laying, eating and drinking fine, and acting normal, but is there anything I need to do to...
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    Vent Gleet and Nutrition Help

    I suspect I have at least one hen who has vent gleet. At first I thought it was maybe just diarrhea but after a closer look, it looks like vent gleet (pic attached). I got monistat to treat externally and added ACV to their water. Also gave kefir with some garlic powder. Any other...
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    Chicken Ate Plastic Topper

    One of my girls ate what looks like a thin, plastic topper. Kind of tube looking. Best way I can describe it. I tried to get it before she swallowed it but was too late. It’s been a full 24 hours since this happened. I’ve watched her eat, drink, poop and she’s laid an egg. However, I just went...
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    Limping Hen

    Usually our girls free range for about an hour during the day, but we had a busy day so wasn’t able to let them out. I just went out to the coop to check on the girls and saw that one of them was sleeping in the nesting box (she’s never done this before). I just thought she was being defiant...
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    Eye Issue and Re-introducing Chicken Back to Flock

    Morning! I had originally posted about my 8 month BCM about a week and a half ago who seemed to have some sort of eye injury. She didn't appear to have any other symptoms but was lethargic and hiding. Initially, the eye was gunky. I moved her to our garage as soon as I noticed and started to...
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    Sick Chicken - Eye Infection?

    I noticed today that one of my BCMs was acting off. It started with her kind of moving around, but standing still for a while often. I noticed from a far that one of her eyes was closed. After further inspection, it looked like the eye was kind of gunky/slimy. She eventually started hiding in...
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    Extension Cord Fan to Covered Run

    Thoughts on running an extension cord from the house to the chicken run for a tall-standing industrial fan? We are going out of town this weekend and I won’t be able to do my typical trip to the coop to start their battery powered fan. Is it safe to run an extension cord out there to a fan? It...
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    Coop Windows Question

    We added these 2 windows on the front of the coop. It had mesh or whatever standing screen that comes with the window. The coop is pretty high off the ground. Do we still need to predator proof the windows?
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    Am I doing this right?!

    I am currently trying to merge 6 little girls with 3 big girls. We have made it through sharing a separated run to now sharing a run with no separation and all is mostly well. Last week we started putting a dog cage in the coop and putting the little girls in there. 2 of my girls seemed fine but...
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    Merging 2 flocks to 1 coop

    We are adding 6 new chicks to our current group of 3 big girls. The new chicks are about 8 weeks also. We are currently letting them free range together (even though they don’t pay each other much mind) and then during the day, keeping them all in the run but separated by a gate. At night I put...
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    Vines for run

    I need some suggestions please on vines to grow on our chicken run. It’s fully enclosed with a plastic UV roof but after recent tree trimming by the city, there’s more sun exposure than I’d like since it gets hot here. I’m looking for suggestions that are safe for both chickens and dogs and...
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    HELP! Chicken Eye Issue

    A little background - about a year ago, one of our Rhode Island Reds was acting sick. She would just sit in the yard, wouldn’t really move and she had what looked like a white film over one of eyes. Initially we tried antibiotic injections but after 2 days of that, I took her to a vet. They...
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    What’s wrong with this baby?

    We just got 6 baby chicks yesterday and today, I just noticed the BCM opening its mouth like it’s gasping a bit? I included screenshots of the video since I don’t know how to attach one. It’s otherwise drinking/eating/moving. Is something wrong with it?
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    Random run laying and soft shell eggs

    I currently have 3 hens in my flock. We have been getting 2-3 eggs a day, all in the nesting box. To preface, our weather has been very up and down. One day it’s 80 and the next it’s cold and raining. Today I found an egg with a very soft shell (you may even say no shell. It was very jiggly)...
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    Chickens Laying Down in Run

    My girls seem to like to just sit down in the run, usually by the door or next to the door, where they can see out into the yard. Is this normal behavior??
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    HELP: what’s wrong with my chicken??

    One of my girls seems to be showing a possible respiratory illness. Making kind of raspy noises, opening her mouth a lot and then coughed up what looked like a bunch of phlegm. She seems to be moving around and eating otherwise but definitely has something going on. She is molting very late and...
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    Behavior after pred attack

    We had something get in our coop a couple nights and kill 2 of our 5 girls. I found them the next morning dead in the coop, pretty slaughtered. Our remaining girls took a couple days to start laying again (which I assume is normal) but they’ve just been sitting/laying on the run floor and i...
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    Coryza??

    I posted a little over a week ago about a sick chicken. She was acting off and had something wrong with her eye. I ended up taking her to the vet (who claims to specialize in birds, including chickens) who prescribed her amoxicillin but nothing for her eye. She said she wasnt sure what wad wrong...
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    Eye Infection?

    One of our girls started acting a little off the last few days. A couple days ago she would just sit by a bush, which wasn't terribly odd, but not something she really does. Yesterday I noticed her sitting by a bush again, just hanging out. Again, not something super weird but usually they are...
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