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  1. jemimarose

    Shell less eggs

    Since you mention that your girls aren't laying many eggs, I will say that I was having the same problem with mine, and solved it sort of accidentally. We had some severely cold weather this winter, and since we live off-grid, we didn't have power to heat the coop, so we crated them and brought...
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    Is it true chickens won't starve themselves to death?

    Freshness makes no difference to them where the feed is concerned. I will continue to make the feed available. Would it help to scatter some instead of scratch, as well as keeping the feeder full?
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    Is it true chickens won't starve themselves to death?

    My flock WILL NOT eat any commercial feed, including locally-grown, non-GMO mash. FRESHNESS AND BRAND AND PROTEIN CONTENT DO NOT MATTER, I've tried it all, so please don't suggest any of that. At first I had the attitude that they could eat it or starve, but they were seriously losing weight in...
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    4 legged chick Clover

    Whatever happened to your 4-legged chick?
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    Chicken Feed Recipe

    Do you buy in bulk to save money? What kinds of places will sell bulk oats, bran, hay pellets, lentils, etc?
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    Blood in intestines

    3 year old rh red was acting ok yesterday morning, got lethargic later in the day, then this morning wouldn't eat and hung out in the corner. By 11:30 am she was dead. Post mortem showed crop full of normal food and vegetation but lower intestines were swollen and full of blood! Never seen that...
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    Is my flock going down from stress?

    Thank you, this is good info. I will take your advice. Only a few have the leg mites. I treated them before and most of them are ok now but a few need re-treating.
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    Is my flock going down from stress?

    Thanks for those tips. I'll check her crop tomorrow morning. I think she is still laying because I find her in the nest box regularly. I dusted them all for mites etc when I noticed her hiding out, but that hasn't helped. I saw her poo yesterday and it was all water. I worry about leaving them...
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    Is my flock going down from stress?

    In another post I talked about 2 stray guineas that are harassing my flock. They belong to my landlady who won't let me dispose of them, but she won't do anything about them either. I've figured out they're both males because they're now chasing and mounting my hens and challenging my rooster as...
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    Old rooster getting mean with hens

    Well we are moving soon and we won't be taking the wild guineas with us so maybe he'll settle down then. If not he's going in the stew pot. Do old roosters get cranky? Or is it most likely the competition from the other male/s? I guess I should ask if I get a new rooster, should I get a cockerel...
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    Old rooster getting mean with hens

    We have an older blue-laced wyandotte rooster that we inherited from someone else so we don't know his age. He came with 3 hens, also older. We integrated them with 6 Rhode Island Reds and they have all been together for about a year, so there's nothing new going on that would precipitate his...
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    Red heat lamp irritating chickens?

    Some of the coop is insulated with 3 to 4 inch rigid insulation and some of it is R-15 fiberglass batt. My frozen hen was in my MIL's coop which has no formal vent at all, it just isn't very air-tight. I placed the vent near the floor of my coop because heat rises. I figured that the chickens...
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    Red heat lamp irritating chickens?

    Last winter we had some extremely cold weather, like several days of -20F or lower. I opened the coop door to let my chickens out one morning and one of my hens was frozen solid on the floor. It had been about -20 Fahrenheit the night before. So now I want to use a heat lamp on the coldest...
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    Red Light?

    Last winter I had to give my chickens to my mother in law because I was moving. She has a tiny travel trailer she converted to a hen house and she had about 25 chickens in there. I thought there would be enough body heat in there to keep my hens alive but one morning I opened the door to let...
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    Anybody ever use Respirex for chicken wheezing/respiratory issues?

    Thank you so much for the info about Respirex. I hadn't found that info on my own. I feel good about giving it to her while I wait for the Tylan.
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    Anybody ever use Respirex for chicken wheezing/respiratory issues?

    I get that Tylan is good. I do, really! But I can't seem to get it around here, at least not in a timely manner. My hen could be dead by the time I get some, so I'm looking for something I can get right now, or in the next few days, that will keep my hen's condition stable until I can get some...
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    Anybody ever use Respirex for chicken wheezing/respiratory issues?

    I have read that Tylan 50 or other Tylan products are best for respiratory issues but my vet's never heard of it and if I order it online, it's going to take anywhere from a week to a month or more to get here, for some stupid reason. However, Respirex can be to me in 4 days and it has good...
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    Another case of rooster crowing all night

    I did some research on this site as to why my rooster crows all night, and I have a question: he's about 6 months old and I've had him for a couple months. When I first got him, he rarely crowed, but he has recently discovered his manhood and now he won't shut up. Could it be hormones that will...
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    opinions on the best breed for roosters

    Well, they aren't mostly anything. I have 2 RIR's, 1 White Leghorn, 1 Australorp, 3 of what look like Amber Whites, but not sure, 1 Red-breasted Rosecomb and 2 Speckled Sussex. I'm not planning on hatching chicks, I just want a rooster who will--fairly quietly--watch over my free-range flock...
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    opinions on the best breed for roosters

    I have a flock of 10 hens of different breeds, and one guinea (left over from a small flock a few years ago). I thought it was a hen, but I found out it's a male. It's abusing my girls, which doesn't fly with me, so he's got to go. Problem is, he kept the hawks away, and my girls are pretty...
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