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i agree. Got 2. Any advice on keeping them in house appreciated. Do you construct a roost? Can you use straw bedding?

Thanks OChick, I'll do a search when I can get to it tonight. I had thought of a baby swing using small size plastic/rubber pants with holes cut for legs. I still have not enginered the swing part. She is so feisty - nearly tore my hand apart with beak grabbing sunflower seeds and bits of...

I've read that, Casp... - also that not all leg problems like this are Mereks so will work with her as long as she remains bright eyed and bushy tailed - full of life and appetite.

I have a 4 y/o Black Star that has a paralysis of the legs. For over two weeks now it is still eating well and alert but needs help. I have seen how some of you have house chickens and created diapers and ask if anyone has invented a sling of sorts for a hen with "crazy legs" that will hold...

Thanks to everyone who responded. Sounds as if it might me Merek's except that she is eating well now for two days and seems real perky. Will watch and evaluate.

Twandx GenderGappers One of my Black Stars has what appears to be leg paralysis; she does not walk normally but by using her wings can get to food and water and seems quite normal aside from inability to walk. I have her in the house where she is eating and drinking fine - just seems to be a...

Thanks to both of you for replying. I'll try the deworming. Camera probably would not work. Neighbor guy could slip poison through the slats of 10' high fence and it would not be noticed.

5 yr. old Black Stars get watery feces. It may clear up for a time but comes back. They are molting now and one has died. None are laying but all are active, eating well and peppy. They are free ranged with chicken mash and scrartch available. I am wondering if these are symptons of...

Hi, I'm having the same problem. Do you find the lice jump on to you when you are caring for chicks? I have learned to spray my cloths with insect repellent or be eaten alive.

Hen lice breakout this winter - no barn involved. They were in well ventilated hen house, same as years before. I tend to think it was the weird winter with colder days giving way to thaws over and over instead of the usual steady freeze up with a brief thaw or two in Vermont. Have tried some...

Thanks, very helpful. Twandx

3 yr old Black Star - lethagic with runny nose. Other chicks appear unaffected. Would this be a cold - coop is in the NE. Would appreciate your info.

Where were the roosts - didn't see any in the pics.

One of my 2-yr old Stars was limping so I checked it out. She was surprisingly docile, letting me poke and prod without a peep or a cluck. I felt for embedded stones or hard objects but there just seemed to be a hard mass at the base of the middle toe that looked like a bunion. Since I had...

Thanks to those who responded. No lice or internal paracites. Molding not thought to be normal in this part of the country with the harsh winters coming. I'll check the genetic cause out with those who created this highbred Chicken was part of a group of 5 from Mc Murry Hatchery - has great...

One of my year and a half-old Stars was rapidly losing feathers and ate little. A few days later she died. Does anyone know of possible reason for this? I know chickens usually do not molt with winter coming on - especially here up North, so I'm wondering if it is a hybred cross problem...

Comfrey grows all over my yard and my year old Black Stars love to eat the leaves. I know it has been an herbal plant that is used by many people, but that awhile ago there were claims made concerning its PA toxicity. Does anyone know any study that might indicate it is harmful for chickens?

Thanks to both of you who responded. I do have nest boxes prepared before laying began, with a golf ball easily seen in both of them. When the first pullet to lay did it from the perch, I thought it might be that they were intensitly preditor wise and did not like nest boxes on the floor so I...

Wykum, first in the flock of 5 Black Stars to start laying, will not use nesting boxes but lays eggs from roost. I've put a nesting box adjacent to the roost, put her in it to acquaint her but so far to no avail. For now have a newspaper covered foam block beneath the roost. Rescued one egg...