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    Help! Hen's vent covered in maggots. Treatment?

    I know this is an old post, but I know when I have troubles reading any related posts helps, so I thought this might help others. I also found my hen's vent covered in maggots. At 1st I just saw she had loose poop stuck to her. Gave her a quick hose. A few days later, not moving much. A day...
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    1 chicken dead, 2 not moving with huge lesions, all have bad lice. Help!

    Thanks so much for the good advice on lice. After reading it & other sites, I went out & bought some permethrin powder, too. Only afterward did I call a vet. The nurse over the phone there said that huge lesions like I described where the skin was gone in some areas, scabbed over in most but...
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    1 chicken dead, 2 not moving with huge lesions, all have bad lice. Help!

    Someone told me chickens almost always have lice so I never checked or worried. They have been healthy for years. But 3 days ago hen stopped moving around 1 day, so I isolated her, 1 1/2 days later she died. That night 2nd hen stopped walking around. Now concerned, did physical exam. Lice...
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    Why not keep chicks in incubator?

    Well, you were right. Smelly. At least keeping chicks & eggs in same place, cause water for humidity got soiled. They're all hatched now & in a cardboard box with heat lamp, but temp fluctuates from 82 to 100 pretty easily. I'm thinking I might clean incubator well, take tray out of bottom &...
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    Why not keep chicks in incubator?

    1st hatch! 4 new chicks and 1 to go. With the temperature so perfectly regulated in my incubator, why not just keep the chicks there until they seem too big for it (2 weeks?). Seems like a better idea than trusting the fluctuation of temperature that my heat lamp in a cardboard box system of...
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    new to hatching

    I finally have a rooster & we need more hens, so I am letting 2 brooders sit on eggs. One egg broke this week or leaked in there & I got it out, but it smells cause goop's on the other eggs & straw. If I wash the eggs, would mom reject them? Is it more dangerous to wash the eggs (temperature...
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    Chickens stopped laying

    Our guess is stubborn rebellious chickens mad at 2 brooders who now get the best nests full-time. They have 7 other places to lay that are perfectly fine that they've layed in before. But out of 15 adult chickens (3-4 1/2 years old) we're now getting about 2 eggs a day. They harass the...
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