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    Too many eggs! Suggestions?

    We made a lot of breakfast burritos and French toast, then froze them when we had a surplus this summer. They both reheat well. Kids love having French toast before school, and the breakfast burritos are yummy whenever. Right now I'm impatiently waiting for my girls to start up laying again 😭...
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    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    Top is MMM Right is Buckeye Bottom is Speckled Sussex Left is Orpington
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    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    Mine lays just slightly darker egg than my Buckeye. Not the color I was picturing, but she is my friendliest hen. I'll see if I can get some pictures.
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    What am I dealing with?? I've lost 5 birds in 2 months

    I have limited experience with all of this, but I did get a Mareks positive on a blood test I sent in. The 3 I have lost were a Jersey giant, showgirl, and orpington. My EE, Brahma, and Speckled Sussex are all over a year old now and doing well. I suspect they were the original carriers as I...
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    Non Emergent - Moving forward with Mareks

    Doing my best to keep this short, but looking for best practices on moving forward with confirmed Mareks in my flock. I have read quite a bit while we were waiting for test results of the blood sample. I still feel confused on what I should do though. I don't want to stop keeping chickens, but I...
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    Fowl pox? Something else?

    Just got our results back on the one hen. Positive for Mareks. I know my 6 (now 5 and likely to be 4 soon) younger girls were not vaccinated according to the farm store. The original 5 (now 3) seem the most likely vector. I have no idea if they were vaccinated, but my guess is no, and I really...
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    Fowl pox? Something else?

    Updates... Both eyes are now totally closed on my lavender orpington. She cannot get around or see. Poor girl still laid an egg though 😞 after lots of reading, I have decided to send a blood sample to test for Marek's. I ordered it through the silkie lab. I will update on how that goes for those...
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    Fowl pox? Something else?

    I didn't have luck attatch a photo yesterday. Here is one. I had to take her out of the pen as I couldn't get a good photo in the separate cage thing. It started with the eye and she was getting around great. Now her foot on the same side is just totally limp. No signs of trauma or sores and her...
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    Fowl pox? Something else?

    Ok, some developments, my sour crop patient is actually turning a corner, up and moving around and crop is far less squishy after 4 days on coconut oil and anti fungal. Now the girl who had her eye a little swollen is totally closed on the one side, and when I went to check on her I noticed her...
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    Fowl pox? Something else?

    Thank you for your informative reply!
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    Fowl pox? Something else?

    I didn't realize there was a way to vaccinate. I'm guessing I'm too late to do that. From what I've read it comes from mosquitos? We do our best to make sure we have no standing water, but our area is notoriously bad for mosquitoes. Is it normal for them to stop laying with fowl pox? The 3 that...
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    Fowl pox? Something else?

    It most definitely could be. That was actually my original thought, but now with the other 2 acting off, I got concerned it could be something more. We have had an record breaking month for rain in my area. They have a dry, covered run, but they have access to another area that is not covered...
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    Fowl pox? Something else?

    These spots on my girls comb have gotten progressively larger over maybe 2 weeks? I'm worried something is running through my flock, but I'm not sure what. I now have 1 I'm treating for sour crop, 1 with 1 swollen eye, and this girl with the spots that are crusty on her comb. Nothing has changed...
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    Torn toenail

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    Torn toenail

    Here is her toe this morning after unwrapping for bandage change
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    Torn toenail

    I will try to get some this evening. I plan to clean it and rewrap when i have an extra set of hands to help out.
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    Torn toenail

    Thank you for the reply. I will go get neosporin with no pain reliever today. I did give her a quick soak and scrub to get the blood off of her feathers and clean her toe up. It looks like it was broken very close to the foot so probably just bled a lot. For now it is just covered in some coban...
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    Torn toenail

    Hello, woke to find blood all over the coop, had a small meltdown, and found my poor Tulin appears to have torn off a toenail. She is a white bird and a bloody mess. I have 2 runs so she is in the smaller one by herself for now while I figure out my next actions. The bleeding appears to have...
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    What am I dealing with?? I've lost 5 birds in 2 months

    Could you just mix the 22% and 16% for 19% overall? Would actually be cheaper too. My local mill mixes their grower with another one of their feeds to make an 18%. It was mash and my ladies just made a mess of it, but maybe if your feeds are the same pellet/crumble/ect that they are used to it...
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    Automatic door

    I have used this one since April. https://a.co/d/3kqMMQL It is in a covered run, I set mine to open and close at certain times. We haven't replaced batteries yet. No complaints from me!
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