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i have another topic up right now about all of the puzzleing smptoms my hens ahve been having the past couple of days. although it still could be anything we all now believe that it could be botulism. it started about 2 days ago with paralysis of 2 of my hens legs one of the hens was worse than...

updated story: about a year and a half ago i got my 10 hens from TSC spring chick days, they are our first ever flock and i just have 10 hens with a coop that we built ourselve but i am not sure about thier vaccinations if they have any at all. since then we have not added any new chickens to...

we just got our pinless peepers today i havent tried to put them on yet but i have one question about them. i know that you put the 2 pin type things into their nostrils but no one seems to tell where in their nostril you should put them, i am afraid that if you just put them directly in they...

I have 10 girls who i have had over a year now and i feel the need to worm and dust them but i know almost nothing about it, i know some natural or herbal remedies but i dont know how to use them and if that will really work. i need some guidence here so if everyone could tell me what they use...

last night i noticed one of my laying hens (sweety) was looking very sick with her wings hanging very low her eyes shut and she was drinking alot of water but refused to eat and appeared to be in pain so i seperated her and decided to check up on her often thinking that it was just a bad egg she...

i have 10 girls who i have had for over a year now and they have been doing well ( except a feather picking problem) but i have been wondering if i should worm them and dust them on a regular basis because i fear that they may have worms or mites. i have never dusted them with chemical before...

i have 10 girls who have been in their coop for about a year now and it needs to get a good cleaning, i replace their bedding about once every month or 2, the floor is just ply wood and the walls are covered in wood panaling and so is the ceiling and im afraind it might be hard to clean and...

i have ten hens that all live together and tonight when i was putting them to bed i noticed that one of my hens was acting sick with her wings almost touching the ground and poop on her vent, the strangest thing was a clear liquid that was dripping from her vent that wont seem to stop and when i...

I have 10 chickens that all live together under pretty good conditions but over this hard winter they have picked up the habbit of picking on each other and it is really going too far. one of the hens is looking pretty bad with bare patches on her back, chest, butt and neck and now that the...

over the winter my chickens have been picking at each others feather and they are really picking on one poor girl quite a bit and i am getting concerned and would like to stop the problem as soon as possible. does anyone have any products or home remedies that can stop feather picking? any...

I have noticed recently that some of my chickens were starting to get picked at and getting their feathers pulled by the other bigger girls and i have no rooster, so i have been thinking how do you stop feather picking? the only idea that i have is to separate the girls who are picking the...

I have a nice new hen that just started laying a couple of weeks ago she is really nice but some days I will get an egg from her in the morning and ill go out there at about 6 and she will lay another egg. the first egg is always nice with a good shell and she lays it in the nesting box but her...

I have a very nice young hen that has a large crop its larger than all of the others and latly she has been losing her voice and i am wondering if these could be the early warning signs of a compacted crop. if you know the signs of a compacted crop please tell me and please tell me how i could...

I have a rhode island red mix chicken who used to talk alot. actualy she would pretty much scream, she was the loudest of all of my chickens but one day i went out there and noticed that she had almost completly lost her voice the only noise she can make is a kind of squeak my mom says it was...