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chiques chicks said:
At the moment they seem to be playing nice. One day at a time.

I also found out someone hatched out two albinos last year from my eggs. I hadn't even remembered giving them eggs!
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I'm sure you can handle it. Glad they are playing nice. Do yours have the other neuro type symptoms that were mentioned? (I think someone said twisting head or something)
 
Annjee said:
I'm sure you can handle it. Glad they are playing nice. Do yours have the other neuro type symptoms that were mentioned? (I think someone said twisting head or something)
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not too obvious yet. I'm very hands off. They are in another room, I only check a few times a day because the brooder is sitting beside the hatcher with a hatch going. That one is Swedish flower hens. I have hatched almost every weekend of something. Three hatchers and an incubator that holds 120 helps.
 
Auroradream26 said:
Oh no fellow enablers! I'm getting another coop. ....FREE! Our part time neighbors up the street (cabin) got rid of all their chickens and aren't getting any more. I'm guessing cause it's too much of a pain to come out here to maintain them. They were just going to burn it up but offered it to me. It's insulated and wired. It's not huge but it's big enough to be either a grow out pen or seperation pen. It's probably 5 x 3. My husband didn't even bat an eye when I told him lol.
Thank you! We threw that together a couple weeks ago. It's about 30 ft back into the woods asking the edge of our property.
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I'm jealous I wish someone would give me a coop.
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Kinmera said:
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npip cert is easy to get guys and gals. Contact your local extension office and ask for the number for your areas state vet. They will come do it for free
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I went to a training class with blarney and msladyhawk about a year ago....that was one part of it....then a second class that was more involved..(including drawing blood)...I think the ag office also comes and inspects your 'set up'......
 
I have a rir hen that has a (gapping) laceration on her side from the rooster under the wing. It's scabbing but idk what else to do. I've been cleaning it with peroxide and blukote after cleaning. What can I give her for infection?
 
jmayday said:
I have a rir hen that has a (gapping) laceration on her side from the rooster under the wing. It's scabbing but idk what else to do. I've been cleaning it with peroxide and blukote after cleaning. What can I give her for infection?
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We recently treated 2 hens for this... both were bathed (in kitchen sink) with warm, soapy water to flush out the wound and then rinsed with warm water, feathers around the edges were cut off at their base if they laid into the wound and potentially would cause 'pulling' on it. We put Neosporin around the edges (without the analgesic, which is dangerous to chickens) and sprayed the wound with Blu-kot and kept them in the 'hospital ward' with one other friend from the coop until the wound was scabbed over and beginning to heal, then they went back out to the coop with a hen apron on to provide protection until it finished healing.
We reapplied the Neosporin and blu-kot as needed, but usually only takes a few days to notice a real difference....

Neither hen showed signs of infection around the wound so no further antibiotics were used. Both fully recovered and are laying and behaving normally...
 

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