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    Bird mites in my house 😩

    Thanks to a nest of baby birds above the window, my son's bedroom is having a bit of a mite infestation that might be moving to other rooms. Tricky part is that I currently have chicks in my basement in an open (hardware cloth sided) brooder (as well as one very patient hen outdoors waiting for...
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    Best first dust bath?

    So, I'm late to providing a dust bath situation for my 7-8 week old chicks (they are in pine shavings and often take dust baths in those.) They haven't been exposed outdoors as we're working on our run and coop. I've never fed them medicated starter feed. Is it best to introduce some top soil...
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    Hen Solo (all jokes aside, question about a solo hen.)

    How long is it okay to have a hen be solo? Long sordid story - we were down to 2 hens with intentions of adding chicks. Before we got a chance to do that, a predator took one hen from us. I took young hen off a friend to keep my last original hen company until chicks were big enough to...
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    Chicks may have eaten some vinyl wallpaper 😬

    Long story short, our brooder pen is open bottomed and currently on concrete so we put a strip of vinyl wallpaper under it to be a little warmer. There's pine shavings on top of that. Apparently while shifting the brooder it tore and there's now a chuck missing (all pine shavings were dug away...
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    Sour crop question - dehydration?

    I've made a post about this hen but have a more specific question, so I'm sorry for the multiple posts! We've been treating a hen for sour crop with clotrimazole cream (keeping in mind it could be slow or impacted crop as well.) Yesterday was very touch and go and the first full day she...
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    Help please! Possible sour crop/worms??

    Backstory - my 3.5 yo hen was low energy and passing small lash eggs. Hasn't laid since the fall. We don't have access to an avian vet. Regular vet prescribed amoxicillin/clavicillin and a de-wormer (can get that drug name if needed.) we started ABX last week and almost immediately her appetite...
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    Clavicillin question (sick hen)

    Hi! My 3.5 yo barred rock hen started passing lash eggs a few weeks back and was just acting a bit off. I've been through this with another hen as she stopped laying eggs and she battled through it for a year before eventually passing. This time I decided to ask a vet. We do not have access to...
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