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    Treating sour crop and worms, will this strategy work....?

    Tick tock, how long can a 5 year old hen go without drinking? Thanks to BYC forums advice, am treating her with a syringe of Miconazole 3 ( off label use of anti fungal) and yogurt twice daily, plus apple cider vinegar in her water. But she doesn’t seem to be drinking, and this is day 4 in...
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    Crazy idea?

    In Virginia we are usually ok with unheated coop and temps into the mid teens. BUT end of this week forecast is for an unprecedented minus 7-- a huge change. Is it a terrible idea: to take them off the roost at night and keep them in pet crates for a day in our heated basement? My thought is...
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    Time to give up?

    This is our first summer with eggs and we are doing miserably. in the last 2 weeks, black snakes have killed two setting hens and eaten their eggs. Two layers and one mama that successfully hatched out one chick 4 days ago remain. Just now I found another 6 footer in the laying box and...
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    Chicken Scratch

    Not to ruffle feathers, but there’d really be something to crow about if, indeed, the chicken in every pot were a happy chicken. If it were just us chickens, imagine what would happen to the industrial food machine’s cock and bull “natural, hormone-free, all vegetarian” dinners! With more...
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    Hello From Virginia

    Hi. I've got 19 Delaware roosters to 6 weeks. Raising them for meat and now beginning to have lots of questions, which led me via Google to this terrific site. I am so relieved to find you guys! The boys are in a chicken tractor, tarp covered for blessed rain this week. Soon half will move to a...
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