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I have two grown Orpington girls (about 1.5 years old) that go into their coop every night to sleep. I got two young silkies for Christmas (about 12 weeks old) and kept them separate until three nights ago to quarantine them and because they were still on medicated grower food. I introduced them...

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We have just installed a misting system for our chickens. We have run a hose to the back of the coop outside in the shade and put three misters on it low to the ground to wet the ground. I understand chickens like to stand on wet ground and cool down and don’t necessarily like getting wet, hence...

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I just wanted to check that these dark spots on my chicken’s feet are okay? She is a cuckoo Orpington and has dark flecks on her beak too. She is currently having a full molt at the moment as well. Thanks.

Their coop and run is snake proof just not the new dog crate. The set up I have is not big enough to put the dog crate into.

One of the problems is the dog crate is not snake proof so I will have to bring it in the cottage at night and then put it back out during the day. Is this what others do?

My Orpington has now been broody for 24 days. I have heard that the broody period can persist for up to 6 weeks! I have been getting her out of the nest box in the morning and locking her out of the roost and then she pretty much does what the other two do but she’s eating a little less than...

So after sleeping on it I feel I need to do something more for them as one definitely has worms and to be honest after hours of googling and talking on forums I realise now this product I bought from a pet shop, only treats one kind of worm so when my local farm supply shop opens soon I’m going...

It was a roundworm in the poop and I have this on hand now so I would like to get this into them initially. I will get a better one shortly.

I really appreciate you helping me, my math is not brilliant, this is what the back of the bottle says about giving it in mash…

How much of this per chicken should I give? I am confused with the mg bit as I have a solution. Thanks

I have Piperazine solution here that I would like to give to each of my 3 chickens individually rather than in water, so I know they have had their dose as I found a round worm in some poop this morning 🤢 I gave them 1ml each in their mash this morning, but I’m starting to think, after some...

Omg I have found a round worm in one of her droppings, and once I googled it all, it is all the symptoms that she has, and I now feel so bad, but I did worm her straight away. I thought you only had to worm about once every six months? Anyway, now I need to know how to get rid of roundworms...