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    Review by 'Anonymous' in article 'Building A Treadle Chicken Feeder'

    Thank you for these plans!! We found a rat in our coop this morning 🤢 so I’ve been researching all morning about treadle feeders but we have two coops and I cannot afford to pay almost $400 for good ones and I’d worry about it closing on their heads. This one looks so much better and my son is a...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    I don’t know if you’ve rehomed the healthy girls yet. But if you are keeping them, even for now I can just share what some of the members on here with a lot of experience told me to do for our girls when they had this issue. A few months ago one of our production breeds (I will never get another...
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    Pullet's beak does not fully close, top is shorter, should I trim it?

    Thank you!! I decided to add some additional waterers for them with the nipples just in case drinking from the regular waterer is hard for her, I’ve tried to watch her and catch her drinking water but I haven’t been able to… I’m going to file her beak tonight when my husband gets home and...
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    Pullet's beak does not fully close, top is shorter, should I trim it?

    Thank you SO much!! I just got on to bump the post to ask this very question and I had somehow missed your response! I’ll go get an emory board today and when my husband gets home we will trim it for her 🥰
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    Pullet's beak does not fully close, top is shorter, should I trim it?

    Good Morning, I have a EE Pullet that's beak doesn't fully close due to her upper beak being shorter than her lower beak. We had another EE with this issue before her and Charlotte's wasn't as bad so we never really needed to address it. This is Bea (I'll add some pictures), she is super sweet...
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    Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

    Good Afternoon, is it possible for stress to make them have a harder molt than they would have otherwise? Or maybe it was just a harder molt for her this year anyway… but she’s losing a ton of feathers, my other hens that have already molted this year had a soft molt and I’m just wondering if...
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    Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

    Here’s one more picture of her set up in the little “crate clinic” we always set up for any sick/injured chickens
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    Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

    Here are pictures of Jo’s comb and wattle, sorry I’m just now getting them uploaded I was with my dad at doctors appts all day. I checked on her when I got home and she seemed okay, she’s very agitated being up inside in a crate. But tonight when I went to check on her again she is holding that...
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    Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

    The roosts aren’t super high, they’ve jumped up and down off of them for years, but we do have some spots in the run that are higher and maybe she jumped off of there one day lately… she likes to get up there and feel like she’s boss and look down on the chicks 😆. I’ll put her inside tomorrow...
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    Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

    Thank you, yes, it’s Jo 🙂. My older hens had fowl pox about 2 years ago and this looks different to me, it’s not little scabs. But I’ll definitely take a picture and add it tomorrow to show you! I really appreciate all your help! Blessings!
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    Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

    Thank you!!
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    Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

    I will try to remember before I leave in the morning, it’s already dark outside here now 🙂. Thank you!!
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    Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

    Hi all, I wasn’t sure which thread to post this under because obviously by the headline you can see there is multiple issues going on with her. We just added chicks about 4-5 weeks ago, they started sleeping in the coop about 3 weeks ago but they are separated at night in the coop by mesh...
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    Feeding 100% organic without going broke?

    I know this is a late reply but in case you’re still looking… our tractor supply carries organic layer pellets and crumbles from brands like purina and dumor. They are about $30 for a 40-50 lb bag. We have our chicks on the dumor organic chick starter. Right now I have my laying hens on the...
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    9-10 week old chick "gaping" on and off and all 3 chicks seem to be breathing heavier

    Hi, I wasn't sure whether to put this in this forum or the sick forum, but I'm not sure they're sick. We got 3 chicks almost 6 weeks ago and they were about 3.5 weeks old when we got them. We have a brooder for them inside and we kept them inside for about 3 weeks and then started putting them...
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    Just brought chicks home and seeing bloody stool, thoughts and ideas?

    Okay thank you! I have a little chick waterer, so it’s a 1/4 of a gallon I think? So I should use 1/2 teaspoon in their water if I’m calculating correctly?
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    Just brought chicks home and seeing bloody stool, thoughts and ideas?

    Good morning, I just brought chicks home yesterday from a local breeder, I saw their chick brooder that they were in and it was clean and I didn’t see any concerning poop in there. They were on a different food that I wasn’t able to find (a higher protein and unmedicated), so I brought them...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    It’s not water belly, it’s definitely an egg issue. We’re going to try the antibiotics like Azygous suggested, at this point we have nothing to lose 😅 she’s acting fine, bright red comb, eating and drinking, pecking around. So I’m not going to cull her (we have a local vet that doesn’t seem to...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    Thank you @azygous and @Eggcessive, I somehow didn’t see these follow up posts. I have some antibiotics I bought a while back, so I’ll try that. At this point, it’s worth a try. I had seen the posts where y’all said to stop the baths and calcium, so I did that. We have just put her back out with...
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    Egg Bound or Water Belly? Please help

    Thank you! I just checked, she definitely isn’t swollen in front of her legs… behind her legs in her vent area she feels swollen (but she’s a big chicken and I’m not sure if she’s always been so big there because I never really checked before this). Should I try to draw fluid out or no since...
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