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I have a hen that has a large mass of hay in her crop. Massaging doesn’t break it down because it’s hay. She has been off food and only has grit and water in her cage. But nothing seems to be helping. I can get the impaction to go down but she brings it right back into her crop. She’s making the...

This was very informative. Thank you. Heres an actual picture of him. He escaped his run yesterday and got into the deeper part of the mud. So he’s pretty dirty. I have been seeing some of my chicks come out with spots their heads. But I thought it was from my Easter egger pen. I have a barred...

I’ll have to get one of him in the morning. But here’s GFF picture. He looks like this hen but much bigger.

She is in a pen with a mechelen turkey head male. The only male in there. So these are her babies from the cross. The grey blue ones. Not the brown chipmunk ones.

Can you explain the genetics? Thats why I’m here after all. I can look at the papers all day but sometimes I just someone to explain.

He’s a turkey head. I’m not sure if his coloring would be considered barred but he looks barred

Can you be more specific as to why it’s dominant white? I just keep being told that and my understanding of dominant white is very rudimentary. Besides white leghorns. And no matter what I breed my leghorn to the chicks are always white. This girl produces light blue chicks.

What color would this hen be? I had some people tell me she was dominant white. But she is more of a light blue color in person. These pictures really don’t do her justice. I also bred her with a barred male and the chicks came out the same color as her. Does dominant white make chicks blue...

Okay. So they just see my chickens as another member of their flock causing them to squabble the way they would with each other. I have that about right?

They are still young. I purchased them as keets over the summer. I absolutely adore them but they are so different than my chickens. I had noticed they were starting to fight among each other and just thought it was puberty or something. I don’t know why they have singled out only a few of my...

They were brood with three bantam chicks that also free range. These three chickens, a rooster and two hens, roost with the guineas on nice nights and eat out of their coop. The guineas will not roost in the coop and instead roost on the runs. I gave up trying to get them to roost in the coop...

There is wind protection on the runs right now and they look through the little space there is by the door. I can’t block that off because we need to be able to access the door.

My Guinea free range. My chickens don’t. My chickens are penned up in different runs depending on their breeds. The guineas lately have been going to certain runs and standing at the fence to yell at the chickens on the other side. When the roosters come over they fight with each other. The...

Corrid is the most common treatment for coccidiosis but there’s others out there that are used for pigeons. Corrid can’t be used with vitamins but a sulpha can and is my go to for coccidiosis treatment. I’m unsure what DME is but I use valbazen to deworm or dewormer deluxe.

Lameness is a symptom of so many chicken illnesses but I know mareks is the one people think of first. It’s probably the scariest. Keep going with the vitamins as suggested but maybe get a fecal as well. Coccidiosis can cause lameness and so can worms.