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    Actual Correct Dosage for Safeguard Dewormer for Chickens

    Wow, monthly. I have not the fortitude, that's for sure. And because of that "spring to life", I was sort of thinking closer to when the eggs come in without thinking about how they'd suddenly start laying like gonzos and I'd be heartbroken to lose em all! But.... I did keep them all and...
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    Actual Correct Dosage for Safeguard Dewormer for Chickens

    I've tried many of these remedies. And settled on @Wyorp's above (liquidy goat dewormer, 5d at .23ml/lb chicken). For me it's the best combination of ease, control, effectiveness, price. I think warm, wet climates are perhaps inevitably worm-riddled? I'm beginning to accept this as an unending...
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    This chicken is not dead

    Yeah so sad. I feel badly now that I posted this, lol. Because while that parent was diligently keeping them toasty underneath it seems that one missed the hotspot. So sad...
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    This chicken is not dead

    Not a chicken, a bald eagle. Who looks very like a chicken, TBH, just a bigger beak. [from a webcam on Big Bear lake]
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    Chickens are my theraphy

    I think you're going to have to work it out with the mean-neighbors in person. Sorry, shouldn't call them that, can't go into negotiations negatively. At least the City is being very reasonable, I wonder if maybe they could help negotiate. Ask them if there is a way you could work together so...
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    The day we said goodbye to free ranging! 😕

    You could try a hybrid setup maybe where you let them out to free range when, and only when, you're around? Life's a series of tradeoffs. And death....
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    Roundworms?? How to deworm?

    Hi Wachrslaz! I'm no expert but want to assure you that the direct-dosing of the Safeguard liquid with a syringe is not hard. There are good pictures on this forum of the birds' mouth and how you need to just aim down their right side of their gullet. Sounds scary but it isn't. The suggestion...
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    Actual Correct Dosage for Safeguard Dewormer for Chickens

    HNY! 6 hens. 2 youngsters, <1yr - and laying despite I would have thought the sunlight thing... very seemingly healthy, born I think here: 6/10/24. One of them seems to have a custard-colored runny poop but they're both laying up a storm and very hale. The oldsters: 2 are rescues and I don't...
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    Actual Correct Dosage for Safeguard Dewormer for Chickens

    Oh my what a thread. This just keeps coming back and back - threads on dosing of worms as well as, you know, worms in chickens. I had a set-to with my flock quite some while back and thought I'd knocked the worms down but never was sure in one or two of my now-six girls. We've had some...
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    Help, opposum attack

    (((sending you good thoughts, both/all for trying so hard. Fingers crossed....)))
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    Help, opposum attack

    ((Teganmarie)) - in the hands of @azygous and @Wyorp Rock and other such wise ones. Is it possible to stitch closed a hole in the crop??
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    Hen face swelling!!

    @Wyorp Rock - thank you! Who Knew??? I'm kinda ridiculously scared of touching them. I only just recently got up the nerve to stroke their wattle - they seem to like that sort of! Chickens are absurdly intimidating... I will add an ear-peek to periodic mite-inspections.
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    Hen face swelling!!

    My goodness you diagnosers are good! You suspected the mites before knowing of them. How on earth do you: "...look inside her ears for signs of infection, pus and/or mites..."? Those black mites are awful; they can literally kill your sweet birds, orders and orders of magnitudes bigger though...
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    Help, opposum attack

    Forgot to add that I've BTDT. Possum attacked a hen and left huge gaping wounds right into her insides, you could look right inside of there. It happened while I was away; dh did the same thing, opened up the cage while it was dawn thinking "good enough". And physically removed the hen from the...
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    Not emergency, lots of blood, hoping I did the right thing...

    I had no idea! Interesting.... Patient seems totally fine now. She was hiding up on a perch and when I tried to give her some gruel she leaped away, went to eat some pellets, then some dry mash, then some water, then some worms standing tall and looking totally fine. So ... totally false alarm...
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    Not emergency, lots of blood, hoping I did the right thing...

    Maybe the bath dislodged the "blood feather" (new concept to me) and the bleeding stopped for that reason? She doesn't lay eggs, hasn't for more than a year. She could be molting though I had the sense they'd finished, then another from the flock just started shedding like crazy. I can never...
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    Help, opposum attack

    (((so sorry!))) You are in good hands here and your chicken is receiving such loving care. I imagine if there is a puncture in the crop you might need to feed more often smaller amounts so the level stays below the puncture if that's a thing? Anyway, more knowledgeables will say.... good luck!!
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    Help! Hen is sick/dying

    (((I'm so sorry))) - you did help her to some food in her last hours. She would have felt the concern. Thank you for her good care.
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    Not emergency, lots of blood, hoping I did the right thing...

    Hi! I thought I had am emergency but now I'm thinking it's ok... can someone please "check" me? Found lots of blood all around, saw chicken with blood dripping from foot, get chicken picked up and found a very bloody side but no obvious lesion or anything, put her in a warm bath and I *think*...
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    Bird Flu in Dairy Cattle

    What is known about the spread of H5N1? Someone above mentions droppings from migrating songbirds, tiny birds - do they flit about the chicken's runs, drop poop there that chickens scratch-peck-ingest and become infected with? Sorry for the dumb question... I would like please for it to be (a)...
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