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  1. scChickn

    Hard boiled eggs, the final word

    Long ago on this forum I searched everyone's advice on how to hardboil (and actually peel!) fresh farm eggs. At the time none of these worked--poking little holes in shells, adding salt to the water, a few other suggestions I've forgotten. Recently I've found a way that I can hard boil my...
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    Butchering, storing, roasting help please

    I took my chickens to a local processing place today (not up to butchering myself yet), and they are now good to go. I kept them on ice on the way home, now I was about to put them in the freezer. But wait, am I supposed to just keep them in the fridge for a while? Someone help me with that...
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    worming for dummies

    I am hoping to have a fecal analysis done soon. I haven't done anything yet. I've been hoping as you say, perhaps my fluffy chickens are just a little messy. However, I did put one chicken down recently. She was very messy in the hind area, a bad smell, and I noticed her feathers below her...
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    worming for dummies

    If someone could be so kind as to describe (rather exactly) how to go about worming my chickens. I have 9 of them in a small coop. A few months ago, I treated them with Wazine-17, which I know is not a broad based wormer but it was all I could find locally, and I don't think it had any effect...
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    Can contents of layed eggs be impacted by worms?

    I am assuming by heavy worm load, you'd mean that any visual inspection of droppings would show visible worms of some kind. And if found in an egg, or poop, what would these worms look like? Are some worms too small to see?
  6. scChickn

    Can contents of layed eggs be impacted by worms?

    To answer both the previous questions: No, I haven't seen anything in the poop. I did notice that some is looser than others, but the color seems good. No the vet does not specialize in avian, I believe she is a "large animal" vet. Which means she's on farms, but may not know much about...
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    Can contents of layed eggs be impacted by worms?

    Here's the situation. My friend is a vet, on they way home I gave her a dozen eggs. She called back later and said my chickens have worms. She based this on what she saw in the eggs I gave her. She seemed to think that the fact that some of the eggs had spots in them indicated the chickens...
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    Chicken Newbie has sick chicken - messy backside, stools

    I may not have all the answers off the top of my head... droppings seem greenish (not that abnormal) but runny. Might have been a white-ish mass too, I haven't had a chance to really clean her up. About 6 weeks ago I tried worming them for the first time, because I thought I saw runny...
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    Chicken Newbie has sick chicken - messy backside, stools

    I'm not sure where to begin for looking for a cause. 1 of my 10 hens is just a mess in the hind area. Feathers are all matted, droppings messy and sticking to her. I seperated her from the flock and am now going about giving the coop a good cleaning. I'll inspect the other hens but haven't...
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