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No judgement at all. Sounds like a lovely rememberance.

Thank you. As a vet tech(ret.) it's hard to do nothing.

We love our hens, are vegetarians, I am a retired vet tech. We have had a small flock of egg layers for about 10 years. They live in the barn inside an insulated large size , rodent proof coop. We went into keeping hens hearing about chickens that live ten years or more. In the last decade we...

We live on a farm so have room to bury them. We love our girls too! We have kept them frozen, double bagged in our freezer until spring. You can also bury them in compost. Leaving them to nature is also okay with me. We have had animals dug up after burial. I'm not too upset. We love all animals.

Thankyou for your very insightful words. We couldn't agree more. When we came to our dream farm it was essentially for our two horses. We thought having chickens as pets would mean they would live long happy lives. We didn't take into account the very poor breeding and disease control. Going to...

Thanks. Good advice. Though we don't want to watch our girls go one at a time, I agree that intentionally exposing hens to a terrible virus is not okay. Very helpful advice.

It's funny, almost everyone I know kinda just grabs chickens from all over. I wouldn't want chicks if it meant getting roos as we only want hens and couldn't give them away to be eaten or whatever. If we could get sex links or such.... we loved having all different breeds. They almost all came...

Your words are a comfort thank you.

Thank you for your support and kindness. I didn't word my post well. Our girls all came from different sources. If we were to start over we were told to get them all from one breeder. But most of our hens came from breeders ? What is to prevent us getting IB again? Is it wrong to get more hens...

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Is there a thread for this? I realize that many people keep chickens to eat or otherwise use. We keep our girls to enjoy and care for and eat whatever eggs they leave. Perhaps we shouldn't have hens. Maybe we are too "soft". We lost another hen yesterday. We lose one or two a year. None of our...

Okay thanks, I thought so too. Someone here said Gold laced Wyandotte for breed but the feather colouring doesn't look right. I'll post again ina month.

Expert advice or experienced guesses appreciated! Thanks!

We are 6 year "newbies" to laying hens, although we feel that we have "been through a lot". We started with a city rescue (age unknown) who lived with us for 3 years. We bought a purebred Buff Orp, who we still have at 6 years! Other than her our chickens live to 3 years usually. We have lost...

I'm sorry for what you are going through. I don't know if I could handle it. I wish you good luck with restoring them to a better health. I don't think you should take them back either. Can you contact the HSUS (Humane Society)? Keep doing what you are doing but don't let them suffer. There are...

Thank you very much. We cannot find a vet to help us. We go to University of Guelph but we can't treat them all this way. The last girl we took to Avian Medicine is HAPPILY still alive but cost us $900. I am thinking of taking Peabody's body to U of G for a post-mortem but it would only be for...

Our 3 yr old rir was sick a month ago. We brought her in and supported her. We tubed in Nystatin and flagyl on advice from U of Guelph. She seemed to recover. Last week she showed same symptoms and so we brought her in again. Diarrhea, not eating, bluish comb, fluid filled crop. I began the meds...

When our Heritage Brown Leghorn was put on Claviseptin (penicillan) the dose was 125mg twice a day. I don't know if this is the same dosage for all forms of Penicillan. Georgie is a small 4lb hen.