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  1. revmarcie

    Please help on BIG long term bumblefoot problem

    Thank you so much. I feel much more reassured. Thanks for the epsom salts info. I wasn't sure if it would sting a more open wound. Love and Light and Prosperity to you and yours, Marcie
  2. revmarcie

    Please help on BIG long term bumblefoot problem

    After months (and I mean since about Sept), I have been using Tricede Neo on my hen's bumblefoot (tiny spot during so many months that did not change). Finally, She had a fully formed "scab" on the foot. This morning after a 15 minute soak in Epsom Salts I managed to pull out the kernel. I...
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    Feeding my hens

    I'm sorry, I goofed about their age -- we got them last October. They're wonderful Rhode Island Red brown egg layers. They have a lot of lovely space in their coop and in their enclosed run and as I said they are out most of the day free ranging. We have them now on 16% protein and I also...
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    Feeding my hens

    Yep, tried the high protein food fix, aprons/saddles, pinless peepers... they got around all of that and still pulled feathers, and the high protein didn't help either. I'm stuck with some wild "women" chickens who love pulling each other's feathers. They really look awful and I have to keep...
  5. revmarcie

    Feeding my hens

    Yep, tried the high protein food fix, aprons/saddles, pinless peepers... they got around all of that and still pulled feathers, and the high protein didn't help either. I'm stuck with some wild "women" chickens who love pulling each other's feathers. They really look awful and I have to keep...
  6. revmarcie

    Feeding my hens

    Sorry about the crazy typing. I'm using a tablet and stylis and I'm no good at this.
  7. revmarcie

    Feeding my hens

    I have a sparrow problem. my girls free range during the day but their coop is open with feeding buckets and water all day. I have a small doorway for my girls to enter and exit. so do the sparrows no matter what I try I cannot keep them out. I am now keeping the girls locked in the coop and...
  8. revmarcie

    Chicken apron keeps sliding off on one side.

    I'm talking about the ones with elastic that do not go over the head.
  9. revmarcie

    Chicken apron keeps sliding off on one side.

    Help if you can. I really need my chickens to wear aprons/saddles. They have horrible feather picking habits that have no other solution -- tried everything, believe me! Here is the problem. I have both purchased and made chicken aprons (the ones that don't go over the head) for my...
  10. revmarcie

    Treating with Ivermectin

    I found an interesting lady at sweeth2o.us. Sweetwater Farms out of CA. She has been working with chickens for over 25 years. Very valuable info on lots of subjects. Especially Ivermectin.
  11. revmarcie

    Trial on treating bumblefoot without surgery...

    I also spent a fortune on the Tricide Neo. I did it for quite some time on that bad foot with no scab. Unfortunately no difference. I heard that it works sometimes and not others. I really wish it had worked but I think that the foot might have needed a scab starting to begin with, not...
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    Trial on treating bumblefoot without surgery...

    I'll keep you posted. I was going to go with Ichthammol but remembered the bentonite before I did so. That surgery business is terrible. We'll never do it again, if at all possible. I know it is painful for them. Ichthammol was a family favorite growing up. It got rid of even cactus...
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    Trial on treating bumblefoot without surgery...

    Folks, Just thought I'd post something I am attempting and will keep you informed of the progress. Did surgery on obvious bumblefoot on one of my hen's feet. Successful but very traumatic. The other foot was terribly swollen but no obvious scab or spot. Had been soaking her in epsom salts...
  14. revmarcie

    Seemingly severe bumblefoot but no scab

    Thanks so much for the information. I will try to get a photo of her foot and post it. Your advice has been really valuable. Marcie
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    Seemingly severe bumblefoot but no scab

    Dear Friends, I appreciate all your site comments but I have a problem hen. She definitely had bumblefoot with scab on one foot. The other more swollen foot presented with only a tiny slightly larger than pin head brown dot. We did surgery on the scab foot and attempted it on the more...
  16. revmarcie

    Complications w/bumble foot

    Help please. Success w/one bumble foot surgery on one hen foot. The other foot was swollen badly, very tiny scab. When cut into foot, no kernel, no cheesy stuff, just blood. Sprayed with vetericyn, put on triple antibiotic and bandaged foot. After we stopped the bleeding. Did not know what...
  17. revmarcie

    Protein for chickens...

    Friends, again I am still at wits end regarding the feather pulling/pecking of my about 11 month old Rhode Island Red hens. I've done the pinless peepers (they learned how to still peck around them and it was just more difficult for regular eating from our buckets). I tried painting them...
  18. revmarcie

    Cinnamon to kill ants? Does it hurt my chickens?

    I have just read a remedy for ant problems --- cinnamon. We have huge "carpenter-type" ants and occasionally they sting my chickens. (And me). I have heard that cinnamon will get rid of them, but... I need to know if it will hurt my chickens. So far I have found nothing that is useful...
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    Can chickens have cinnamon?

    Please does yes mean they can have it or does it hurt them. I have just read a remedy for ant problems. We have huge "carpenter-type" ants and occasionally they sting my chickens. (And me). I have heard that cinnamon will get rid of them, but... I need to know if it will hurt my chickens...
  20. revmarcie

    Tried everything any new suggestions?

    Got our RIR hens from a farmer when they were between 9 and 11 weeks old. They had been with many other hens of all ages and were all missing tail feathers. We were very new to chicken raising so we didn't know this might be a problem. That was October 2015. It is now May 2016. They are...
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