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Hi Tracy ~ Well I'm sad to report our girl didn't make it. She wouldn't stand up on her own anymore starting Thursday and stopped eating on Friday. I gave her some veggie oil to get her bowels going thinking that would encourage her to eat, but no such luck. I even took her out in the sun on...

WOW!!! Very helpful, thanx. I will pass this info along to my daughter as she is the one that will be performing the task. This is her pre-vet experience and well, I'm just a big ol 'chicken' myself so I'm not doing it

Okay, great! Thank you so much for your info. I read another article that said to use medicated vaseline to push it back in...did you use something like that as well?

One question...did you push the rectum back in immediately or did you soak and treat her for a couple days first? We gave her a sitz bath and used the witch hazel on her today and my daughter will do it again tonight after school...should she try to push it back in tonight? I don't want to wait...

One of my girls started limping after Roo pounced on her to do his thing...d*mn men If I hadn't seen him do it I wouldn't know why she was limping either...it's was a sprain and after several days she was fine.

Haven't been on here in a long time,but so glad you changed the title cuz it's helped me emmensely as I discovered one of my hens yesterday with this problem. Now I know how to care for her...thank you so much. I've already separated her from the rest now I'll get the epson salt and start caring...

Quote: My first thought was tomatoe hornworm also. I belive the moths you're referring to are Luna moths, but I can't open yourlink so I'm sorry if I repeated you.

Congratulations! You have beautiful babies...all of them. Those pictures are precious!

Congrats! Mine didn't lay consistently at first, but it's been a couple of weeks now and we're getting at least two eggs everyday.

Quote: Ahahahahhaha...*wipes tea from computer screen*

Honestly, I enjoy the company of my 'gals' sometimes more then the company of my other family members You're perfectly fine!

The black and white hen is definitely Barred Rock...I have to and they are the loveliest fo my girls...very friendly and affectionate. It looks to me as though you (your cousin) have a few Rhode Island Reds there as well. You have a nice selction of birds.

Won't be long at all...I posted a question a while ago about mine doing the sqat and in a matter of days the eggs started showing up.

LOL!!! You made me laugh so hard cuz I know the sound you're referring to all to well...I keep my windows closed in the morning

Quote: LOVE your avatar...mmmmmmmm, that man is wonderful!

Quote: Thanx...they are 21 weeks as of today

We got our first egg on Saturday, I believe from one of our BRs and today we got another only this time from our RIR...YEAH!!! We are finally on our way thanx to my lovely girls

Sure. I'm very excited about all this, but completely clueless

My RIR pullets are the same age and look the same...no roos, sorry.

Does anyone else feel ike they are dealing with children!?!? LOL! I have 6 hens and 6 boxes...I have no idea what they do in there cuz I work all day...the only egg we've gotten so far was found in the corner on the floor because DH hadn't put the boxes in yet even though I told him they were at...