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    Amoxicillin for my hen with a reproductive infection - please help!!!

    I have a Americana/Silkie hen currently struggling with what looks like a reproductive infection. She's around two years old, and hasn't laid for months. I'd been giving her daily calcium citrate+D3 but that didn't seem to help. She is now acting slow and lethargic and won't even eat scrambled...
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    What should I do for my bantam's ear infection?

    I suspect one of my banties has and has had for some time an ear infection. She frequently does these little head shakes and scratches at her head, and yawns often. For the longest time I thought it was just a harmless habit of hers, but by now I'm starting to wonder. She has no visible...
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    Can I breed father to daughter?

    I'm planning on hatching my own eggs this year, and I'd like to incubate the eggs of my two Sebright/OEGB crosses. I just moved my rooster to their coop (it only contains the Sebright crosses and a senior Buff Orpington) today and he's doing great with them. My two bantams I want to breed are...
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    Dizzy Bantam - Please help!!!

    My Sebright (Stormy) is She's acting really dizzy, losing balance easily and staggering around when she walks, and when I fed them this morning she was having trouble focusing on her food, trying to peck at it but missing. Also it rained yesterday, but she stayed nice and dry, so I don't know...
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    Dangerously thin hen with undigested feed in excrement

    One of my hens has been gradually losing weight. I figured it was just molting, for she was losing a few feathers. Now she's emaciated, especially on the front of her breast, and is much lighter than she used to be. She's eating and drinking normal and seems fairly active. I know for certain...
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    Supplements for my Buff Orpington

    I have a six year old Buff Orpington in congestive heart failure. Any ideas on supplements I should give her? Giving her Magnesium, Potassium, Vitamin C, Garlic and/or Cayenne Pepper are a few of my ideas. She's still being her happy chicken self, but I can tell she has some discomfort and I'd...
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    Lost hen in my care

    My neighbor found this chicken wandering around his backyard. I came by and picked her up to take care of her while we look for her home. She seems generally healthy, bright eyes/talkative/eating, but I have a few concerns... My biggest concern is that she's limping, clearly favoring her right...
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    Trimming my rooster's spurs

    (I hope this is the right forum to put this thread in, this was the one that closest fit what I'm dealing with.) My bantam rooster's spurs are getting quite long, almost to the point of touching the back of his shank, so I want to trim before that happens. I've heard of multiple ways to do it...
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    Baby Sebright has sniffles

    I'm chick-sitting two babies for my friend for a week, a Barred Rock and a Silver Sebright. I noticed yesterday that the sebright kept doing little gasps for air, although otherwise looked normal. Today she's gasping a lot less, but she did sneeze and some clear stuff came out of her nostrils...
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    What is the best way to get rid of chicken lice?

    I used to use DE on my chickens, but the more respriratory harm I hear it causes, I'm backing away from it. I've been dusting them with ash in the meanwhile, but it doesn't work nearly as good as the DE did. What's your favorite product/recipe to get rid of these pests? (extra points if it's...
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    What vitamins do you give your aging hens?

    I have a few hens in my flock that are going on seven years, and I wanted to hear what vitamins you give to your older hens and how often/how much you give them to them! My Sebright Stormy is going through "henoupause" and doesn't have as good balance as she used to, so I give her vitamin B1...
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    Ear Infection?

    My Sebright Bantam has been scratching at her face a lot, and yawns occasionally, and I've heard that both of these symptoms can indicate an ear infection. I checked her ears and they both look normal, no mite eggs or canker (although one of her ears feels sticky with earwax. It's not dirty or...
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    What is my "Welsummer"?

    At first I thought she was a Welsummer, but she looks too gamy. I've seen pictures of chickens that look exactly like her, but I was never able to find out the breed. Anybody know?
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    Lethargic Plymouth Rock

    My 4 year old Plymouth Rock Joleen has been acting a lot slower than usual lately. It started last month, and it's only becoming more prominent. She still eats, holds her tail high, and flaps up on top of her coop for the night (where some of my chickens prefer sleeping to inside of their coop...
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    Sebright laying lots of eggs and egg bound issue

    My six year old Sebright hen has been laying like crazy! She went from last year's "egg once a week" to this year's "egg nearly every day"! Last month, when I checked on the chickens for the night one day, I noticed my Sebright (Stormy) was in a penguin stance and seemed to be straining. She was...
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    White stuff on my bantam's waddles.

    My bantam Silver has this white stuff on her waddles (on both sides). I've noticed she's been itching her face more than usual, so is this some kind of fungal issue? She wasn't feeling all that well last week, closing her eyes and sitting in a hunched position, so I treated her with electrolytes...
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    There's something going on with one of my bantams.

    There's something going on with one of my bantams. For the past couple of days she's been less alert/active than usual, spending a lot of time fluffed up in the corner of her run. I figured she was just getting over being broody, which she was not that long ago. I gave my flock treats today and...
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    Sooooo... my waterer spilled.

    I had to drive somewhere quite far yesterday, and I came home to my chicks' previously full waterer being completely empty, and the bedding, across the whole brooder, being wet. The poor chicks' tummies were also damp, so I changed the brooder's bedding right away. It was my fault for the most...
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    Easter Egger Chicks (or not?)

    I was considering adding some new additions to the flock, and my local feed store happened to have chicks, so I got some yesterday! A Buff Orpington, a Sicilian Buttercup, and two chicks that appear to be Easter Eggers from an assorted breeds bin. Or are they? Since Easter Egger chicks and...
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    Chicken Behavior on the Eclipse!

    Are you and your chickens in the path of totality for the solar eclipse? Wanted to start a thread to see how everyone's chickens behaved. (Crowing, going to roost, turning into walri, etc.) Anyhow, post below! Excited to hear everyone's experiences!
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