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  1. Jtaranc

    When is moms job done?

    Exactly 4 weeks ago my blue splash maran hatched 3 eggs. She has been a wonderful mom and this is my first experience letting hens hatch and raise their own chicks. She talked to them constantly, showed them where food and water is, protected them against the other hens. The last few days...
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    Whos laying these speckled eggs?

    I may incubate but I have no idea who they belong to. Sometimes they are heavily speckled, sometimes they're like this. Choices are barred rock, buff orpington, or rhode island red.
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    Has anyone had hens co parent chicks before?

    Ive had a few broody mamas that I let sit on eggs for the hell of it. The first mom, a BCM hatched 3 babies. Shes a wonderful mom. Those 3 are a week ahead of the next batch. Then my blue splash and porcelain d'uccle went broody. I let them have 2 eggs each, they all hatched within a day or 2...
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    In your flock, what is the average lifespan of your hens?

    Most of my flock was purchased 4 years ago and theyve started to die off. A few more have water belly too.
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    BCM scalped by something?

    Shes back to normal. I took staples out after 10 days. I cant even tell which bcm it was anymore.
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    Caught a hawk flying away with one of my pullets

    Thank you!
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    Caught a hawk flying away with one of my pullets

    How weird you just replied this. She is a mama now and wonder protector and teacher
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    Im so mad right now... possible Mareks

    Nevermind
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    Mareks in flock? Chicken is unsteady

    Its a farm so we do have mice but i dont use poison honestly i let the rat snakes take care of them. I dont use weed killer either cause i have livestock eating the grass. Im off tomorrow and will go through everything they have access to. I added BCMs a year ago. They are with the flock and...
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    Mareks in flock? Chicken is unsteady

    They all free range and scratch around in everything. We have a 10 acre horse farm but I am super careful about chemicals and pesticides, insecticides. It is possible they scratched around in moldy bedding or hay. It was a wet winter and its hot now. I fly spray the horses but i doubt they got...
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    Mareks in flock? Chicken is unsteady

    Ok last week I had a 4 year old bantam rooster just curl up in the lay box and die after being fine. I got home yesterday from work and my husband points to my 4 year old RIR hen on my porch and says "she hasnt moved all day" so of course i stand her up and she immediately falls over and uses...
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    How do you let moms raise babies?

    I have 3 BCM that are broody right now. I have marked some eggs and let them keep them, our set up is different though. Our lay boxes are in a big elevated part and its a steep ramp to climb. Im afraid once the babies hatch they will fall and get hurt. We have a flock of 26 hens and 2...
  13. Jtaranc

    What is the usual cause of natural death in chickens?

    He was 6. We buried him this morning. He wasnt sick, no one else is sick. I just feel bad he laid down with his partner and died. Maybe he felt it coming on. We were thinking maybe his heart gave out.
  14. Jtaranc

    What is the usual cause of natural death in chickens?

    I have a pair of bantam porcelain d'uccles I got at tractor supply years ago. One roo and one hen and they paired off in our flock. The hen is broody right now. This morning i opened the lay box to collect eggs and my d'uccle roo was dead next to his hen 😩 No wounds or anything. Its like he...
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    Is this a chicken? What kind?

    My neighbor got an incubator and hatched eggs they had gotten from myself and some friends. Unbeknownst to myself they also found eggs while they were out mowing, put them in their incubator and hatched a turkey vulture. They had given me 2 chicks prior to this to raise because i had chicks...
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    HELP Found my barred rock full of maggots

    Our tractor supply sells it. I have used it on my turkey who got fly strike after a fight with our rooster.
  17. Jtaranc

    HELP Found my barred rock full of maggots

    Mainly Mainly hydro therapy and flushing the wound and then preferably keeping them somewhere away from flies while they heal. Sometimes we do antibiotics based on infection. There is a spray for cows called screw worm spray you can coat wounds with to keep them from getting reinfested. We...
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    HELP Found my barred rock full of maggots

    Yes. As long as she is otherwise OK. She is eating well. I work in vet med so I'm comfortable draining her and when it's time my boss can euthanize her. Honestly I am not surprised. This hen spends alot of time in my house. She's had sour crop a few times and twice she stopped eating and turned...
  19. Jtaranc

    HELP Found my barred rock full of maggots

    Yes. I got about 160 mls from her belly. That circle is now caved in. I poked her because her abdomen just didn't feel and look right. I never poked that circle just around it.
  20. Jtaranc

    HELP Found my barred rock full of maggots

    Is this water belly?
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