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Thanks. We are going to go the vets this weekend to ask if what we have is ok or if they think we should use something else. Scary about the symptoms though. I lose one hen a few months back that was so skinny and another one had bloody stool and passed a few days later. When we bought the 12...

Thanks. Do you deworm your chickens though? I am not worried that they have worms, I am wondering if this is general maintenance for these animals.

We had a case of mange in our cattle herd and we started going through our deworming supply. We sometimes have pigs so we were reading the back of the swine dewormer and it listed chickens as one of the types of animals that this product was good for. Now this may be a very stupid question but...

Thanks for all the advice everyone! In all honesty I never paid attention to what was exactly in the food we were buying. At our local feed store there are two types, organic and non organic. The organic is 4x the price so I just assumed it was the best for them, silly I know but these are our...

We had been raising our chickens organically for the past 1.5 years, since chicks. Our chickens have always had feather issues. They molted and basically never grew back their feathers. We tried every suggestion that was brought to us on how to help our hens regrown their feathers and it just...

Thanks for the all the advice everyone! He started level two of his obedience training on Sunday. We are also putting him in a herding course. Its more of a "game" obstacle course for owners to interact and play with their dogs...but the purpose and the lesson to be learned from the course is...

@Mutt Farm @Folly's place . Thanks so much for the tips! In my RT's defense he is actually the most intelligent dog we have ever had. He is just what we call a hunter gatherer. Not only does he go for the kill he also eats what he kills! We have cattle as well and he is fantastic with the cows...

Our other hens have made it through their molt but they aren't all laying consistently everyday yet. They were and then stopped through the summer. We have 11 in our coop and we are getting about 7 a day right now. They are about 14 months old. We want to start free ranging ours but our Rat...

Hello, We have a Rat Terrier. He is a Giant Rat Terrier / Decker Terrier so is about 30lbs. He is young...only 10 months old. When he was about 5 months we started free ranging our chickens and he killed one within 15 minutes. Very sad. We punished him but he really didn't understand. The...

Thanks so much. I know its silly but it is sad when they pass...the girl in me sheds a few tears every time I lose an animal...I make a terrible farmer! But I will miss her! She was my favorite hen in the group. A friend told me that often his hens will stop laying in the summer. Apparently...

Hello. Just wanted to update. My chicken I wrote about in this post ended up passing away yesterday. Not sure why but she just continued to go down hill. Her feathers came back but she stopped laying, got thin, and then passed.

@JulieAGill sounds like our Rhode Island Reds haha. They actually scare the crap out of me! Always in my face. One thing that was suggested to us to get them to stop picking on each other and just make them all around happier was to make a cabbage piñata. Literally hang a cabbage so they have...

Hi @JulieAGill based on the advice people gave me on this question I would say molting. My americauna laid one egg the day I asked this question and then hasn't laid one since. So it's been about a week. Our other birds that are losing feathers are still laying as normal. I have switched them...

Good plan we will try free range too...just have to work on our dog! I am going to switch them to a higher protein feed to see if that will help.

@maritarenee you can see the pictures as this link shared http://www.grit.com/animals/molting-what-is-it--how-to-help-chickens-get-through-it.aspx

@Eggcessive thanks so much for advice! I am going to try the cooked eggs and the food suggestions. I think she would greatly benefit from having a place she can eat without those Rhode island reds getting in her face. I have a serious soft spot for this little chicken. We actually just checked...

I have a one year old Ameraucana who has stopped laying eggs the past week. Over the past two months our entire flock has started to lose feathers here and there. From what we have read it is molting and something to be expected in a flock that is one year old. We checked them all for bugs and...