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    Coloboma or Ocular Marek's? Does it really matter?

    Keep her for as long as she's vigorous, happy, and healthy. You never know, she could be fine for a long time. My buff orpington just this past spring ended up with internal bleeding in her abdomen from her tumors, so we chose to humanely euthanize before she declined further. She had "water...
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    Adding a Coop + Autodoor -- Any thoughts?

    Right? I always want to expand the chicken palace! Anyway, I think we have mostly settled with trying the Aspen 10 model and purchasing an Omlet Autodoor to fit to the front. I love the 3 separate nest boxes and it will be sheltered in a secured run. Hopefully that will suit our purposes well.
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    Adding a Coop + Autodoor -- Any thoughts?

    I feel this so hard. Our two Eglu Cubes have caused some *issues* with egg-laying for a handful of our hens. Our Speckled Sussex is surprisingly domineering about wanting to be alone in the nest box (save for allowing the 1 hen who is above her in the pecking order to share with her), and we...
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    Comment by 'Hentrovert' in item 'Nestera chicken coop'

    That's very helpful, Perris. I'm struggling with what coop to add to my flock, and it's the doors and predator-proofing that makes me hesitate most with the Nesteras. I'm a cautious individual and tend to love my chickens 'too much,' to say the least. The new coop will be inside of my (now...
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    Adding a Coop + Autodoor -- Any thoughts?

    Thanks, I’ll try that! EDIT: I'm ... not sure I can change the topic?
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    Comment by 'Hentrovert' in item 'Nestera chicken coop'

    Perris, do you have any personal experience with the new Aspen models? I love the wagon but I’m a little scared of the guillotine-y door and the possibility of the door freezing. I know an Aspen can fit an omlet auto door but a Google search is yielding conflicting info about a leaky nest box...
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    Omlet Eglu Coop - How to Keep it Warm in Winter??

    I live in NJ but the omlet eglu cube has been just fine for my girls over 4 winters so far. Summers are way more difficult. Shade is absolutely essential, and sometimes i wrap up an ice pack in a towel and tuck it over their sleeping area at night; my especially heat-susceptible birds seem to...
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    Adding a Coop + Autodoor -- Any thoughts?

    We are expanding our flock in the spring, and to prepare for our new chickens we are intending to add another coop and branch of our chicken run. Currently we have 6 hens living in 2 Omlet Eglu Cubes (usually 3 and 3 split evenly, but sometimes 4 and 2 depending on the night) that have served us...
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    🪶☕ the cochin café: Cochin Lovers’ Thread ☕🐔

    They sure are! I got mine from a local breeder and I've seen others with blue laced red barnevelders that look pretty much just like my Hilda. :)
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    🪶☕ the cochin café: Cochin Lovers’ Thread ☕🐔

    Your wish is my command! 😂
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    🪶☕ the cochin café: Cochin Lovers’ Thread ☕🐔

    I'm getting my first LF Cochin (a white fluffball) with my spring order and I can't wait to join the Cochin Café! I see you're getting a Barnevelder -- I have a blue laced red Barnevelder and she is an AMAZING hen. Absolutely gorgeous to look at, low drama, extremely hardy, very good layer...
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    Is Molting worse this year?

    Three of my six have had a very hard molt this year. Two molted earlier. One has yet to molt.
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    General Question about Albendazole + Molt

    Hey everyone! I had to treat my chickens with dewormers at the start of a heavy molt (For two of them). I had previously had fecals done and it came back positive for tapeworm, so I started with praziquantel -- then one of my other hens got extremely sick and expelled a roundworm with her...
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    Nutrena All Flock Crumbles -- anyone able to find these?

    No human grade Vitamin D! Just the Poultry Cell, which definitely works, but again, the other vitamins are probably not needed. I'll have to give it a shot on the medical forum. Thanks for your input!
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    Nutrena All Flock Crumbles -- anyone able to find these?

    I have the flaked oyster shell from Scratch n' Peck and the girls LOVE that stuff. I have more issues with them eating the weird pebbly consistency 'oyster shell' than the flaked shells. For my soft shell layer, calcium was never an issue for her specifically -- she seems to have a hard time...
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    Nutrena All Flock Crumbles -- anyone able to find these?

    I've seen some fearmongering that Kalmbach feeds are nutritionally inadequate. I'm not sure if there's any truth to it but it definitely scared me, because I used to feed (and love) Kalmbach layer crumbles and one of my hens started having chronic soft-shells while on it. I'm deworming my flock...
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    Nutrena All Flock Crumbles -- anyone able to find these?

    I'm looking to switch to Nutrena All Flock from a layer feed because I have one hen who has stopped laying for a year, and I don't want to overburden her with the extra calcium. I'm also going to be adding chicks next year and figure switching over now won't hurt. However, my chickens are...
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    Is it time?

    So an update from over the weekend: Betsy drained a lot of fluid out of her vent. She was constantly greasy and dripping for two whole days, and I gave her a bath twice. Since her second bath her abdomen now feels normal, and she is no longer oozing fluid from her vent. Her droppings look more...
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    Is it time?

    The struggle and the worry IS the worst part. The signs of her illness are relatively subtle to people who don't know her like I do, but they're there. She no longer wants cuddle time, for instance, and the extra short rest breaks and subtle waddle in her step to accommodate the fluids. I had...
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    Is it time?

    I’ve been hyperfixating and spiraling a little and would like … I don’t know, some reassurance that I’m approaching this the right way ahead of our veterinary follow up on Monday evening. I have a 3.5 year old black australorp hen (named Betsy), sweet as can be. She is a true cuddle chicken...
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