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    Milky Poop

    First of all, I am so sorry that I don't have a picture. I caught it on the camera because I'm at school right now. One of my girls pooped straight up milk. Like it looked like someone spilled milk in my coop. It had a little small red thing in it too, and I noticed a few of my other birds...
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    Whats wrong! Bad poop

    So its my chickens first cold season and they all are having some poopy butts. But this girl is having it really bad, she's a silkie and they aren't vaccinated for cocci like my others are. She's been having some serious poop on her butt for a few days and I just got home from a trip to find it...
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    Research question for egg yolk color

    Hey all! Im a junior in highschool applying for the regeneron scholarship. It's a research based scholarship so my research question is the proportion to which the amount of a pigment I give a chicken will change their egg yolk color. But to get started, I need some materials. I plan to use...
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    Copper Sulfate for Crop

    My girl has had a huge crop for months. I have treated with ACV, I have purged, restricted food, given her a crop bra...the only thing that seems to work is giving her soft mushy chicken food. But that isn't sustainable for me as I am very busy and am sometimes unable to go out and feed her...
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    Impacted crop-help

    I've posted about this before. I've been giving her ACV water and one meal a day, mushy chicken feed. I think the sour crop has gone away as I don't hear any bubbles coming from her crop like I did before, and most of her crop is mush, so why isn't it draining? It only partially drains at night...
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    Anyone have a good list of simple products to have on hand?

    Like vetrx, rooster booster, that type. What do I need on hand and what do I not need? Thanks!
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    How to get a big fat hen/is this selfish?

    I love how a big fluffy buff orpington hen looks. I've seen people have skinny ones, but I really am hoping mine get big. Would it be selfish to purposely feed them extra to get them beefed up? I don't want to risk their health but I also want them to be super fluffy, if that makes sense.
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    Impaction + Sour crop

    I already posted a thread about this but something changed and I wasn't sure if I should just update it or not. My girl Ms. Peregrine has an impacted crop that has become sour. Today, the impact seemed to go away, but now her crop is FULL of water. I touched it once to see if there was food in...
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    Impacted crop

    I think I'm a terrible chicken caregiver because I totally let this go on for weeks without knowing. One of my girls has an impacted crop, but I didn't know it was until a few days ago. I do check their crops but it wasn't completely hard so I didn't think anything of it, but about 4 days ago I...
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    Eye gunk

    My silkies had some mycoplasma a few weeks ago. They are still sneezing a little, but better. We didn't treat them, my mom wanted to let them get their immunities built up, and everyone was still eating so it ended up being okay. They are really gross from all the eye and beak gunk. I can clean...
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    Cocci or intestinal shed.

    I'm writing this away from the coop so I may not be home to take pictures for yall for a while. However, I'd still like some recommendations. I know it's summer, so my flock is gonna have some watery poops. some of these poops have what looks like an intestinal shed. However, it's so many poops...
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    Getting those nits off!

    I'm wondering the best way to get the eggs/nits off my babies..apparently I'm the worst chicken owner in the world because a couple weeks after I moved my angels to the coop, they get lice (the are about 7 weeks). Apparently the lice are in the area as my neighbor said she had them before too...
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    Can someone please recommend me an antibiotic to buy. I think i have coryza in my flock of 5 week old chicks.

    Here's a pic of an infected chick. The other eye isn't swollen like this. The chick isn't sneezing but other chicks are. Please help. Do I need to cull? I haven't quarantined it yet bc I don't know what to do. It still eats and drinks too
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    Lazy eye? Help

    I have a 5 week old chick that I think may have gotten its eye almost poked out. It's puffed up, lethargic, and yellow crust is coming out of its nostril. One eye looks normal and the other looks like a googly eye. When I go to check the hurt eye. She closes it and won't open it again until she...
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    Tips to beat the heat

    I'm going to be moving my babies to the coop soon, hopefully permanently. They are about 4 weeks but will probably be 5 or 6 by the time we finish the coop. Should I give them electrolytes for the heat and stress? I will be gone when they probably first really settle in to the coop (maybe I...
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    Moving to coop, need advice!

    It's a hot one this summer in kentucky. I may be gone when my chickens first get in the coop (they are 4 weeks right now and will be 6 when I leave) Can I leave them in the coop for 6 days (9th to 15th) before giving them access to the run? Online it says minimum 3 days, but it's so hot this...
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    Mareks poop??

    3 week old chicks. The one pooping like this is sneezing a lot
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    Coop question

    I live in Kentucky. When can I move the babies into the coop? I have about 22. They will be 6 weeks a day before we leave for Florida. Will they be alright with minimal amount of "checking up" on for their first couple of days in the coop?
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    First time outside!

    Feels like 98 outside, nice breeze, felt like it was warm enough for these babies to take a peek outside. 3 weeks old and energetic! Gonna give some grit for this later tonight
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    Check up on my work

    So I've had my chicks for about 3 weeks. I wanted a check in on how I'm doing. Those are my vaccinated 13. They have a little box for dirt baths, a stick from outside to roost on, food, water. They've been having some diaheraa I think it's because I've been giving them a lot of meal worms, I...
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