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    Auddenly dead chicken and uncurable "vent gleet"

    Here's a photo of the lavender orpington from last year. She looks pretty similar to this photo but has less feathers now.
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    Auddenly dead chicken and uncurable "vent gleet"

    I cannot remember what we used, it was over a year ago. We treated with a few rounds of lotrimin with no improvement. It appears that 3/6 of my birds have a dirty backside and the 1 has pretty significant vent gleet for 2 years that will not heal. She is still laying. I don't know how to help her.
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    Auddenly dead chicken and uncurable "vent gleet"

    Hello, I walked out to the coop and found our bantam cochin dead. She was previously healthy with no signs of illness. She was fine earlier today and acting normally. I inspected her and noticed possible "egg sacs" in and around her vent. I attached photos for reference. Is this fly strike? Do...
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    Help with possible vent gleet!

    We have not. Is that a possibility? She has some missing feathers on her back too. She's still laying but just doesn't look healthy. We have 2 lavender orpingtons and the other one looks much healthier. She's in a flock of 6 other birds, all healthy.
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    Help with possible vent gleet!

    Hello! We have a lavender orpington 💜 who is almost 3 years old. She has been struggling with what we assume to ve vent gleet for over one year. We've treated it with various forms of anti-fungals (miconazole, lotrimin, etc.) And done numerous Epsom salt soaks. She isn't getting better. She...
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    Chickens Missing Neck Feathers

    I'll have to take some pics of our set up. I'm not quite sure how I can divide the roost spaces. I have seen the suspected picker pecking at the affected birds during the day.
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    Chickens Missing Neck Feathers

    We have plenty of things to keep them busy...musical instruments, a mirror, trees ro climb on, dirt to dig in, kitchen scraps. We "free range" them in a large run. I need to measure it for exact measurements. We live in the city and can't free range them for real. They are not locked up, though...
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    Chickens Missing Neck Feathers

    I'm curious too! We have a large coop that we built that could easily house up to 20 hens (wr only have 9 and 2 are bantams). We also have a very large completely fenced in run. I need to get the dimensions for both, but they are adequately sized. We feed nutrena layer feed pellets with free...
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    Chickens Missing Neck Feathers

    I dont really have a way to separate them. :/ We live in the city and have no other place to put them. I'm pretty positive which bird is the one doing the picking (the other super blue egg layer). Do we re-home her? I don't want to, but I'm not sure what else to do. :(
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    Chickens Missing Neck Feathers

    Hi everyone, I have 3 hens (out of 9) who have been missing neck feathers for a few months. At first I suspected molting, but now I'm wondering if another hen is picking on these 3 hens. We do not have any roosters. Is there anything I can do to help them? Do you think it's molting or hen...
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    Mulch in the run?

    Got the chips added! I did a base layer of pine needles and leaves then added wood chips. :)
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    Mulch in the run?

    Great! Thanks! I put down pine needles and leaves and the wood chips should be here this week.
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    Silkie Genders

    Thanks everyone! I'll share more pics in a few weeks. I think they are pretty cute too. I just love these little fluffballs. I got 2 lavender orpingtons with them and they are pretty cute too, just not as fluffy. ;)
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    Silkie Genders

    Hi! I got two silkie chicks from mypetchicken. They are supposed to be pullets but I know silkies are notoriously impossible to sex as day olds. My friend who raises silkies says that the white (splash) chick looks suspect and is possibly a roo (based on comb size and posture/stance). These two...
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    Mulch in the run?

    I would also think that a mix of materials would be good in terms of composting. We compost and I know that the brown to green ratio needs to be in check or the compost is not as effective. Thanks for your help! We are adding pine needles and some leaves today while we wait for the woodchips. I...
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    Mulch in the run?

    Would pine needles be ok as a base on top of dirt? We only have pine trees in our yard. :/
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    Mulch in the run?

    I have a friend who owns a tree service. He's bringing me a huge load of fresh wood chips this week. 👌
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    Mulch in the run?

    Awesome! Thank you so much for your input! I think I'm going to try mulch. Thank you!
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    Mulch in the run?

    Hey everyone! We have a smell issue in our run! Boo! We use sand in the coop and have no smell. I scoop the poop daily. I also pick up poop in the run with a dog popper scooper daily, but we've been getting so much rain and our run stinks. It was grass and is now bare dirt. It is approximately...
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    Hen or Roo?

    Ok perfect! Everyone else said roo when he was he was younger. Just wanted to make sure I didn't rehome to soon! Thanks everyone!
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