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Local agway sold me Calcium chips as oyster shells. I found out I was mixing way too much calcium into feed ( 20%-33%) for a week and after talking to another chicken owner so I stopped adding calcium into the feed and decided to fed straight 16% protein and 4% calcium layer pellets. The...

I recently had a hen get sick and pass and am watching the flock for signs of distress. All but 1 has stopped laying, I noticed a drop in pellet consumption and am trying to decide if it is because they are eating less because they are ill or overeating worms. The girls discovered my garden bed...

Thank you very much for your help Speckled hen. as soon as I read your post, I drove her back to the lady who sold her to me off of craigslist. Hopefully she will know the right course of treatment. Unfortunately, I did not have a seperate place to quarantine the new chickens last weekend and...

Thank you for your advice about the oil Speckledhen. I will see if I can find an eyedropper or syringe at the store. Attached is a video. The angle is not great, but she basically thrusts her head forward to blow out. It was more pronounced last nite. I have also seen her shake her head and make...

Hi, This is my third week of owning chickens. One of the hens who hasn't started laying yet was on her perch last nite and today constantly thrusting her head forward like she was trying to blow something out. Her comb is turning whitish and is fallen over and looks dry. We read threads here...

Thank you all for your advice. I will get the oyster shells tommorrow. We have been feeding them crushed clam shells since we had a lot of steamed clams lately. I just picked up 2 more chickens from a lady relocating in the next town over. She had 7 chickens age 1-3 yrs old and said her oldest...

Teach1rus, the original owners were downsizing and the chickens were treated very well as pets. I picked them up with a list of all their favorite foods, worming schedule, coop, food and bedding. Unfortunately, they don't know the age of the chickens as they bought them from a farmer that only...

Thanks for your advice Fred. I have had them for a little over a week now and usually keep them in a coop and run. We have been letting them free range for about 45 mins a day. The original owners just sent me a reminder to worm them since they were worming on a monthly schedule. I'll go and...

Hi, I got these 2 hens from craiglist and they are not laying. They look like Rhode Island Red. A third ornamental chicken is laying almost everyday so I think the feed and shelter is correct. One hen is laying a soft shell egg every 2 days or so. Can someone please take a look and let me know...

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Thanks for the advice overrun. My main frustration is that the land use code very clearly gives me the right to have poultry, but the code enforcement officer is making a judgment against having chickens because the property is 2 acres and located in a high end housing development. They are...

Anyone from Medford, NJ? I am currently in the process of buying a house zoned AR that is bank owned. The township has told me that although the land use code provides AR (Agricultural Retention ) Zone on residential property has the right to farm which specificlly calls out poultry, they will...

Hi, I am in Southern NJ near Cherry Hill and am interested. Are the 2 chickens still available?