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  1. JanetLM

    Wry Neck Help Please

    Any suggestions or experiences or advise is appreciated. Thanks
  2. JanetLM

    Wry Neck Help Please

    My 1.5yr old RIR started having issues with her neck Sunday a week ago....It was all bent over like the pics I have seen for wry/crook neck. I brought her in and started with the vitamins I had on hand--poly vi sol & fortified b complex and did some research. I picked up the rest of the vitamins...
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    Where to send a bird for a necropsy in GA

    If this thread is not in the correct place...please move it or adivsed where I need to post it. Does anyone know where I can send a bird for a necropsy in Ga? I live in Catoosa County, GA and we are real close to the TN line...so if a TN lab would do it that would be ok too. Thanks in...
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    how long will she stay broody?

    Thank you very much. I am in the process of making a "blocker" for the nest box now-my nest box is attached to the roost area and at night even after putting her on the roost she would get down and go back to the nest box.
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    how long will she stay broody?

    With the wind chill this week we are -1 to -7/8 at night and day times are highs in the mid 20s(with wind chills being less and snow maybe)...these are my first chickens and she is my favorite and I'm sure this probably not bad compared to other places. And yes I was prepared to take the chicks...
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    how long will she stay broody?

    So she will not quit sitting on her own? I do not necessarily want chicks was just letting her sit cause from what I have read the way to break her is put her in a wire kennel up off the ground without bedding and its too cold for that. In the beginning I was removing her from the nest box...
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    how long will she stay broody?

    I have a barred rock that is broody, 21 days today, she was sitting on 9 eggs and seems only one was fertile (you can see the shadow-it looks like a dark blob and looks like veins in the egg but I cant tell if the chick is still alive)...I had a lady give me a couple duck eggs and I have a...
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    Signs of illness???

    Quote: Not that I could see today...she came out this morning the same as normal...I was just shocked to see her in the nest box last night at 10:30 instead of on the roost and there was no egg this morning. Then she was in the box again this afternoon for a long period of time and now in...
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    Signs of illness???

    Even with no eggs in the box? Thank you very much for your response. I will read up on broody hens. I haven't read alot on it since I only have a small backyard flock and from the original research I did the barred rocks were not known for going broody :-) I hope that is all it is I would hate...
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    Signs of illness???

    My 9month old barred rock, Lucy has been laying 5-6 eggs/week since the middle of October with no issue. Even since its been cold she still lays regular 4-5 eggs/week and I'm pretty sure she laid yesterday. However last night around 10:30pm when I went to check the coup she was in the nest box...
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    hurt hen not sure what to do

    I washed around her eye real well and put some ointment around her eye and on her comb and wattles. It wasn't long after that she had her eye open and it all seem good. The rooster has a new home. I told the person I thought the rooster had been alittle too rough with my hen and he looked at...
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    hurt hen not sure what to do

    She seems much better. She is up and alert. Her eye(actually her right eye my left looking at her) is still not open. It's raining here so I have left her in the house.
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    hurt hen not sure what to do

    it's seems as if her left eye has been hurt she will not open it. Other then the patch of feathers missing from her head/neck(probably the size of a half dollar) and she had the tip point of her comb looks like chewed off I can't find anything else.
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    hurt hen not sure what to do

    She has taken a sip of water on her own. After more inspection it's her left eye she will not open the right seems fine now. Should I bring in one her buddies to stay in the house with her she seems lonely.
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    hurt hen not sure what to do

  16. JanetLM

    hurt hen not sure what to do

    Ok she is eating eggs but keeping her eyes shut...do I need to do anything else for her this evening? I have her in the house.
  17. JanetLM

    hurt hen not sure what to do

    Thank you so much for the response. She is my favorite. The rooster will be finding a new home. She does not seem to want to eat or drink right now is that normal? I am making her some scrambled eggs hoping that will entice her.
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    hurt hen not sure what to do

    I came home to find one my hens hiding and not moving. She is the one that always comes to me. She won't open her eyes and it looks like something has got ahold of her. One of the tips of her comb is gone and bleeding and there are feathers missing from the head and back of neck area. Could the...
  19. JanetLM

    Silkie rooster won't get out of the rain...

    Quote: Thank you very much. He actually seems like a pretty study little fellow but seems to prefer to be out of the coop/run more than in. I made him a box with a nice thick layer of straw to sleep in but he prefers the corner behind the box so I have put plenty of straw there too. There is...
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    Silkie rooster won't get out of the rain...

    Thank you for the response and yes please I would like some links about the garlic. All my chickens eat from the same feeder would the garlic hurt the hens(I only have 3 actually laying) but hopefully the 2 older ones should be in the next 2-3 weeks. And yes I was pretty sure he wasn't really...
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