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| hens | 8/15/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have 5 aracana hens that are about 9 and a half months old and they havent laid and egg yet. Im ...
A: Wow! That's a very hard question; if the hens are lively and bright eyed, scratching about etc, then ...
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| hens | 8/11/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have a hen that must be sick. She has stopped laying. She has stopped eating. She seems to be ...
A: Are you sure she isn't broody? If not then she may have some kind of infection which is making her ...
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| Chicken eggs/eat and is it ok to take and try to raise as baby chicks? | 8/10/2008 | Abi |
Q: Grandsons insist on taking eggs and warming them so they will have baby chicks. One said if eggs or ...
A: I don't quite understand the wording of your question, but I will try to answer. It is alright to ...
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| my chickens haven't started to lay yet | 8/10/2008 | Abi |
Q: We have 4 warran chickens who are approximately 28 weeks old and they haven't started to lay yet. ...
A: You appear to be doing everything right! I can't really think why they wouldn't be laying. Try to ...
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| Chicken wound | 8/3/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have a chicken that was attacked by a neighbors dog and now its leg is swollen at the top and shes ...
A: The antibiotics are ones you can get from your vets. Weigh her and then ring them up, tell them what ...
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| chicken eggs | 8/3/2008 | Abi |
Q: why are some of my hens laying fuul shelled eggs which are totally mishapen and appear to have been ...
A: I have a hen, Momma, who had an infection in her oviducts early on in her life, and she has never ...
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| Diarrhea | 8/3/2008 | Abi |
Q: I am chicken sitting my neighbors laying hens while they are gone for 5 weeks. I count chickens as ...
A: If you believe she is egg bound and have the guts, then GENTLY feel around her vent area for any ...
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| Starting a chicken raising coop | 8/1/2008 | Abi |
Q: My name is SFC Schultz stationed in mosul Iraq. We are a small special ops unit of 10 men. We have ...
A: I'm not sure about what kind of chickens they have over there in iraq; you'll have to check that out ...
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| Chickens | 7/31/2008 | Abi |
Q: i have 4 chickens, 2 for laying and 2 for sitting, the one has just started sitting, how many eggs ...
A: She will sit on whichever eggs you put under her. I have a couple of bantams sit on my full sized ...
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| non - laying chucks | 7/31/2008 | Abi |
Q: They have oyster shell grit, organic laying pellets, seem really happy in all their other chicken ...
A: My hens aren't laying much either, and normally we have too many eggs to eat and have to force them ...
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| Wounds | 7/30/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have a small flock. We locked them up at night to keep them safe in the coop but something ...
A: You have done everything right so far. The only thing I am worried about is that racoons eat garbage ...
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| Sneezing | 7/29/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have amy chicks (2 months old)sneeze, but they don't show any other sign of illness: they have ...
A: I find that my chickens sometimes do get a little cough or a sneeze, and I do believe that sometimes ...
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| My chicken's eye was injured by my rooster. | 7/28/2008 | Abi |
Q: It looks like my Chicken was peeked in the eye by my rooster. He's very aggressive when mating. We ...
A: Her eye may have an infection; is it smelly or weeping? I always advise people to get antibiotics ...
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| scaly leg | 7/28/2008 | Abi |
Q: What is scaly leg? I was researching soft egg shells when I came across your page. Someone gave me ...
A: Scaly leg is caused by scaly leg mites. These mites dig their way under the scales and attach onto ...
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| Why are all my hens not laying | 7/27/2008 | Abi |
Q: We have nineteen adult hens. Seven Rhode Isle Reds (one year), four Black Rocks (ten months), two ...
A: I don't know what the weather is like over there but our chickens aren't laying particularly well ...
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| Chickens w/o feathers on neck and chest | 7/23/2008 | Abi |
Q: I also have recently acquired 3 chickens, reddish-brown coloring that have no feathers on their ...
A: Could you possibly link me to the 06/08 inquiry? I can't find it in my past answers. Your chickens ...
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| Hen no eggs and maggots | 7/22/2008 | Abi |
Q: All right I bought 3 hens from someone (they were down sizing) when I got them home and introduced ...
A: She shouldn't be 'urinating', she should just be doing normal droppings; are you sure they're not ...
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| Chicken Not Getting Her Feathers | 7/20/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have five Auracana hens that I purchased at the same time. They are about 3 months old now and ...
A: You do get some chickens which are late in getting their feathers. If she is getting pecked she ...
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| Injured Rooster | 7/20/2008 | Abi |
Q: My dog got loose and attacked my roosters, 2 he just killed,(he never eats them just kills them) but ...
A: I had this problem a couple of months ago with one of my hens, but after a fox attack, and she had a ...
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| Promoting a better Coop | 7/17/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have several chickens, some young, some old, and some inbetweens. I am curious about what to feed ...
A: I don't know what rolled milo is!! In the winter, when egg production is usually low, I feed my hens ...
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| Mites in eggs | 7/15/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have a dozen chickens, which are free range. Some of the eggs that are being hatched have tiny ...
A: No, there is no such thing!!! It could be anything in the eggs such as bits of over-pigmented shell ...
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| garden chickens | 7/15/2008 | Abi |
Q: I am looking for a breed of chicken that does not dig and scratch so that I can raise them in the ...
A: ALL chickens dig and scratch to some extent. They are not garden-friendly pets. Ours will pull the ...
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| Everyone sick when we worm | 7/14/2008 | Abi |
Q: Not long after we get new chickens,they start to open their mouths like they are yawning all the ...
A: I would use Verm-X for your hens. It's a really brilliant wormer with no egg withdrawal period. I ...
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| Pecking order | 7/13/2008 | Abi |
Q: We have 6 Golden Laced Wyandotte hens and one very mean rooster! Two of the girls are constantly ...
A: I'm afraid there's almost nothing you can do about your mean rooster; some are just like that. You ...
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| SICK ROOSTER! PLEASE HELP! WE ARE CRYING FOR HIS LIFE! | 7/13/2008 | Abi |
Q: My rooster is terribly sick. it started out that he was limping on one foot, trying to walk fast, ...
A: Before I answer your question you have to understand I am not a substitute for a vet, and I do think ...
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| turkey with swollen foot | 7/12/2008 | Abi |
Q: we have a two day old turkey with a discolored swollen foot and when we put it with the other ...
A: Without looking at the turkey I would say you need to reduce the swelling. Thoroughly examine its ...
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| Ill chickens - leg and diahorrea | 7/12/2008 | Abi |
Q: One is a hybrid and has put on weight and started laying. However, she is now limping and lifting ...
A: I can't think what would be wrong with your hybrid; maybe she has caught her leg on something or ...
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| sick/runt chicken | 7/11/2008 | Abi |
Q: My husband and I are still just learning about chickens. We have 25 chickens. When they arrived ...
A: Her poos will be a bit weird until she gets better, so this is to be expected. I think you will find ...
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| Do I have a sick hen? | 7/11/2008 | Abi |
Q: Approximately 6 weeks ago I rescued 12 brown battery hens and thus far, wish I'd done it years ago! ...
A: Battery hens eventually get hardier but when they are in the cages they are protected against all ...
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| sick/runt chicken | 7/9/2008 | Abi |
Q: My husband and I are still just learning about chickens. We have 25 chickens. When they arrived ...
A: Gosh, she really does sound awful. I am almost at a loss as to what to say. Can she not eat because ...
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| Croocked neck | 7/9/2008 | Abi |
Q: i have a 6 month old chicken and have noticed that she is bending her neck under her chest most of ...
A: There are many things which may give a chicken a crooked neck, but can mean she has nerve damage. ...
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| Chicken needs help | 7/9/2008 | Abi |
Q: My hen has been crying the last couple of days.I gave them all a dose of piperazine 17 about 6 ...
A: You need to get her to a vet STRAIGHT AWAY if she is bleeding from her vent- she may have been egg ...
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| laying chicken wormer | 7/7/2008 | Abi |
Q: I am looking for a wormer to use on my laying hens. Wazine (piperzine) specifically states not to ...
A: Verm-X are international distributors. I don't know of actual shops in the USA because I don't live ...
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| laying chicken wormer | 7/5/2008 | Abi |
Q: I am looking for a wormer to use on my laying hens. Wazine (piperzine) specifically states not to ...
A: Verm-X is a brilliant wormer with no egg withdrawal period, and is quite easy to administer. It is ...
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| crooked neck | 7/4/2008 | Abi |
Q: I have a young turkey who has had challenges with a crooked neck. She is about 3-4 months old. As ...
A: If you have treated her for an ear infection and given her a balanced diet then the only thing I can ...
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| sick chicken | 6/25/2008 | Emily Richardson |
Q: How do you tell the difference between when chickens molt and when they are sick? Also, I have an ...
A: Well, first of all, she's not molting..normal symptoms are decrease in appitiete, behavior change, ...
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| One chick? | 6/21/2008 | Emily Richardson |
Q: We tried to hatch 3 eggs in an incubator, only one hatched. The other two were not fertile. Now we ...
A: Well, no matter what they say I have had a sucsseful chick grow up alone. There definetly not as ...
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| Incorporating an adult rooster into an established flock | 6/19/2008 | Emily Richardson |
Q: I gave my neighbor a rooster last year and since they did not want it any longer they left it out in ...
A: Well what I would do is let him out with your chickens, but after you did that grab a hose and water ...
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| Feeding laying hens | 6/18/2008 | Emily Richardson |
Q: I've done some research, but can't get a specific question answered: Is it better to free feed ...
A: Well, what I do (for all my chickens) is I give them a handful of food per 2 chickens in the ...
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| Swollen Turkey Wing | 6/16/2008 | Emily Richardson |
Q: I have a young male turkey about three weeks old maybe older but under his left wing there is a ...
A: Well, there are a couple of things it could be such as an insect bite, a fairly large wart, an air ...
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