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Long ago, a weasel killed our rooster & ate only the head…got in during the day by chewing through wire cloth. Tiny hole!

Maybe a Swedish Flower Hen…some are black/gray with white 🤔

Cottage pie with slathers of butter…help I’m stuck on the settee & can’t get up 😳🤷‍♀️

Thank you for your measurements, one side is only 6” away!, the other is 8” so no wonder I have endless splats. I know what I’ll be doing next rainy day. Then I might try lime washing the walls as scrubbing doesn’t get it off…🙏🏻

I think about 8 inches, will measure today. It’s actually an old ladder…

Well, your coop looks lovely & clean. My hens manage to splat poop up walls & all over the roosts & everywhere else...I wish mine would just poop in a poop tray 🙄. Love your laying baskets 👏

When we first had a few hens they all had names. Now we have 35 & my memories sieve like…the Marans, are the Baguette sisters, Welsummers, the Kellogg sisters etc etc. Works for us

Thank goodness it was not a virus…but poor girl! Something new to help others when faced with a paralyzed hen!

Necropsy Findings on Paralyzed Hen: A 3-year-old hen, reproductive carcinoma and carcinomatosis 1. Ovary and oviduct: Carcinoma 2. Peritoneum: Carcinomatosis 3. Peritoneum: Multifocal caseonecrotic peritonitis and ectopic egg

Thanks to you two for helping. Tomorrow our sweet hen, that lays the darkest brown egg is going to UC Davis to be euthanized & a necropsy performed. I’ll let you know the results… 🙏🏻

Thanks for the thread, pretty depressing read though!

we got 4 6 wk old chicks last Tuesday (also vaxed) they are separated

Yes, I’m in California.. she looks really well except for not being able to use her legs ?

On Saturday morning found a 3 year old hen on the ground under the roosts. Vaccinated for Mark’s as a chick (at least I paid for Mareks vax). Been hand feeding, cooked egg yolk with Vit.B & water with added Hen Boost. Still no improvement! Has anyone experienced anything else that causes this...

Chicken coop #5 Cost $5,400 10 x16’ 😬.However our land is not level so we had to build on stilts on one side. It is RAT, coyote, raccoon, bobcat & fox proof...which is worth everything. The Windows in it are old house windows, floors ply, sides are panels from HD. Roofs flat with gravel roofing...

I bought my first dozen chicks in 1975 for £1:00...this year I paid $30.00ea for BCM, mainly because the breed lines. It’s been quite fashionable here in CA to keep chickens for at least the last decade & the fad is growing, a bit like bee keeping. My first box of bees cost $10:00 this year a...

Hi, so our young Marans spent the day in a quite cage within the hen house. I brought her in to clean her eyes & reapply the eye ointment. Her eyes looked much better (this morning I also applied to her head & nasal area warmed vetRx) this evening I can hear congestion. I have applied vetRx to...

I’m so sorry, poor girl. That’s a large wound, I’ve had lots of luck with bactene (spell?) or any antiseptic spay with a contact pain killer in healing small puncture wounds. If you can make out where there is skin you might try pulling it together (I have stitched small wounds up myself using...

Not so far...just noticed the white last night. I have vetRx, how/where should I apply. Thanks for your knowledge