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Trust Pop, he has excellent advice. I never treat anything unless the specific need arises.

Thanks so much for all the photos. My hen is able to walk with a limp after surgery. Going to save this incase I get another with a...

Thank you for your recommendations. I just lost a hen who was prone to crop impaction so I couldn't do this before.

A flat pot of mint and a flat pot of grass-seed (or millet) can show to be fast-growing and good ground cover for them to forage. Try...

My chickens can't free-range due to hawks. The are on a concrete slab covered in pine shavings. I would like to put some small plants...

What did the vet treat the chickens with? It would be a good idea to clean out housing and treat housing/roosting bars/nesting boxes...

Thank you so much for the link. I also just lost my senior Barred Rock today. Not a great week.

So sorry to hear. It sounds like she was in a pretty secure coop/run. Did you determine how it got her? Here's a link to the Southern...

I had a hen do something similar. She needed to us here wings for balance. Kind of looked drunk, lethargic. She would eat but when I...

If it helps I used to have yellow chickens. Now that I’m older and wiser I have Buff Orpingtons 😆 Welcome to BYC!

Ivermectin. Ok, thanks. I will do that tomorrow. I think they got it from the sparrows that always seem to find a way into the coop

Vet found lice on my chicken. Treated it and I'm treating the others. Just wondering how I should disinfect the environment. I have...

Vet found lice on my chicken. Treated it and I'm treating the others. Just wondering how I should disinfect the environment. I have...

You are very lucky that she lived. We had a bobcat 2 years ago kill 3 of our older hens at 2 o’clock in the afternoon while they lounged...

True, sometimes this is the only way to treat a debris impacted crop. Unfortunately, the OP started the thread a couple of weeks ago...