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I'm still trying to convince the better half, but if that happens, is anyone interested in doing an order together? Save on shipping, beat the minimums?

Anyone planning to add to their flock in 2024?

Are the pullets at egg laying age yet? Could she be egg bound? Epsom salt bath and isolate in a dark small space.

Happy weekend! Wanted to share this weird habit my hens have developed. They have such a preference for one nesting box suddenly, that they'll wait in line outside for it, and if they don't get their turn in time, they'll just lay right where they were waiting. 🤦‍♀️

You're a hop and a skip from us here on City Island.

There's also a brand of poison I've heard mixed reviews about that don't harm other animals that might eat the poisoned ones: mouse x and rat x. What was your homemade bait made of?

Congrats!!! How many chicks and what kind?! Predators are absolutely fairly easily managed in NYC. What's your design plan? We have our run covered in 1/2" hardware cloth, with a 3 foot deep hardware cloth skirt around the entire run and hen house. You can also bury hardware cloth or chicken...

Spotted this guy hanging out above the coop when I let the chickens run free in the yard. Thinking about getting a guardian dog, but we *do* still live in NYC. Anyone have small or medium sized dogs that are good with their hens? Maybe with a less energetic temperament than a traditional working...

You're right. It couldn't hurt to know for the future.

Yes. Different types of poisons cause different painful deaths. There's different treatments for animals that are in contact with those poisons depending on what type, and the treatments tend to be traumatic, though less traumatic than death, I suppose (even the Tom cat brand has different...

I was having some concerning issues with our Black Australorp (Emily Chickenson) over the past month + and a little. I'll include links at the bottom to the threads of trying to figure out what was going on if anyone wants the full history, but in short: -started with a pale comb and loss of...

Keep in mind the expiration dates! If you have a place to easily access, you might not need some of it on hand. We're in a major city with nothing resembling a feed store for hours, so I had a lot of this stuff shipped and let other chicken keepers in this city know what I have in our first aid...

I personally am not this season because my wife said no. 😢 But, if you wait until April, Meyer Hatchery has a 3 chick minimum in the warmer months. Not a bad idea to order together, though, to save on shipping! I'll make sure to let y'all know when I'm planning on adding to my flock!

I'm happy to report, 4 days later this chicken is starting to improve. Despite not really having any obvious symptoms of respiratory issues, (and certain signs of intestinal shed) we think that's what it is, and that she's become a bit anorexic, despite clearly having appetite, perhaps because...

So we still don't know what's going on with this chicken. Here's more photos. Poop, comb which now has a blister kind of thing going on, and some feather loss around the comb and face. She's isolated now because we need a better scientific understanding of what she's eating and drinking...

So keep them in the corid abstract for a couple days... I can do that... There's no mucus in her feces. They're solid and pretty normal looking which started me believing the neg fecal sample....

We did stop the Denagard and had them on corid for the past two days because it seemed most obviously that coccidiosis was the problem, however the fecal exam returned negative results for parasites, including coccidiosis

She's 8 months old so I don't really think so. She lost feathers from around her vent beginning just after Thanksgiving and we believe it was due to a feather pecking habit from boredom. Her feathers at this point have come in pretty well. It was around when they started looking good again that...

No. There was a little clear discharge, very slight, back on like January 2 when we brought her inside to observe. This was day two of the pale comb.... so we put the whole flock on Denagard, and I haven't noticed that since then. The other described symptoms haven't gotten worse, but not really...

So.... That chicken ended up being negative for parasites, including giardia and coccidiosis. She still has a pale and shrunken comb. She's eating but not a ton. There's head shaking... And she's a bit stand off-ish and skittish (more than usual, in the best of times she is bothered by someone...