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Just a while ago here on this forum we were discussing how much calcium to give a hen, and some of us were astonished to discover that we were reading the label on the bottle of calcium wrong. Up until now, I, and also quite a few other people, have assumed that when the label on the front of...

Just a while ago here on this forum we were discussing how much calcium to give a hen, and some of us were astonished to discover that we were reading the label on the bottle of calcium wrong. Up until now, I, and also quite a few other people, have assumed that when the label on the front of...

This is a discussion, not necessarily an advice request. I'd like to share this with you all as an observation following a drastic change in the relationship between my two roosters, Strawberry, a seven year-old Cream Legbar and six year-old Tootsie, a Legbar/EE cross. It happened two days ago...

I, being a creature of habit, feed my chickens twice a day at around the same time each day. To further clarify things, I do not participate in the daylight time change, feeling it tyrannical and one of the more stupid and senseless things this culture foists upon us. I had gone to town for...

It's been on my mind for some time this question of what bonds our chickens to us, and why some are such love junkies and others wouldn't miss us at all as long as food continues to appear. Love, affection, and bonding seem to miraculously happen between humans and between us and our animals...

This should answer many of our questions as to what meds we won't be able to get after 06/23 without a vet's prescription: https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2022/04/08/over-the-counter-antibiotics-will-require-prescription-in-june-2023/ About the only ones we use for backyard chickens are...

We had a couple days of cool weather, and today went back to being 80F again. This may be significant to what happened. I was working in the run when April, my two year-old Blue Australorp came inside the run from free ranging. She stood there still, then she appeared to be lowering herself to...

My five year-old Legbar/EE cross rooster Tootsie has what appears to be a tumor on his left shank. I first noticed a hard knot about a month ago, just a strange bulge with no exterior lesions. Lately, he's been behaving, while not exactly lethargically, definitely off from his usual high octane...

Deep in the heart of Colorado black bear country, after fifteen years of keeping chickens, last night a bear finally got into my main coop. Pandemonium and elevated blood pressure ensued. The chickens were also traumatized, but despite not being able to find two hens in the aftermath, they did...

I have a seven-year old Easter Egger named Wheezie. She's always been one of my favorites because she's very smart and lovable and knows her name and she demands cuddles no matter what else is happening. When she began laying in February after fall break, her eggs all were coming out without a...

After discovering my flock has depluming mites, I ordered Ivermectin 1% and Saturday, I treated every chicken in my flock. Since then, I've agonized over egg withdrawal protocols and searched high and low for information on why we observed this little ritual after we worm our chickens. Nothing...

Is molting a behavior? It's probably a topic that might fit just about anywhere, so I'll stick it here. Anyway, three chickens in my flock seem to be breaking all the rules of molting, and it sure does make molting season, shall we say, interesting. The most perplexing is an eight-month old...

Maybe they could. It seems California condors have just proved it can be done. It's called parthenogenesis. https://ktla.com/news/california/virgin-births-endangered-california-condors-can-reproduce-without-sex-study-finds/ And the lady birds had no help from meddling scientists and their petri...

I've had feather picking in my flock for as long as I can remember. It's annoying and frustrating. I've tried any number of things to try to control it. I had a thread on the subject a number of years ago where I thought I had found something to cure it...

The night following bringing home two four-day old Buttercups, the power failed during the night and in the morning, these two babies seemed unfazed by their cold night which was in the mid 50s. Ever since, the chicks being nearly two-weeks old now, they have refused the heating pad cave...

Background: Eight-year old Welsummer hen went sick six weeks ago. First treated with amoxicillin, then a yeast infection set in a few weeks later. Started treating with miconazole to no effect. Later went to Medistatin to no effect. Then did a round of Epsom salts flushes to no effect. Crop...

This morning I had an awful scare. I went out to clean my coops and all of my hens had stuffed themselves under the rear coop in the covered run. However, my two roosters, who normally free-range all day, had vanished. All was deathly silent. Expecting to find two mangled bodies, I went in...

Millie has had a painful right foot for a year now. I've tried aspirin therapy, B-complex, even cannabis salve, but nothing seems to make a difference other than the aspirin for temporary pain relief. There is no swelling along the shank. Her toes may be very slightly swollen on the affected...