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Epsom salt soaks in warm water really help, and I use oneteasoonof epsom salt to several ounces of warm water syring in mouth, careful ot to cause aspration pneumonia, hod oh, boy the red tthings under her beak, and her mouth will pen have someone help you, I am not an advocate of going into...

Last week I isolated a young hen she may be about 8 months a production red, she was bleeding from the Vent I clean her and applied blue kote, she is in with another young hen, the two have a 12 x 12 pen, which I keep for new hens or injured or sick ones. Today I saw that she attemped to lay...

Hi, our son lives in Pittsburgh with his family and the winter was really tough this year,he lost alot of shrubs etc, and he lives in Mt. Lebanon, one would think there would be protection. I live in southeastern Mass, and many farms around me, so we expected to lost plants.

Yes, due to the extreme cold I lost one butterfly bush, catnip plants, mums that always wintered over, hydrangea, and lavender plants.

All of our 32 chickens are kept in dog kennels, over 200 feet, I have been fearful to use any electricity around the chickens, even if it were feasible.

All 22 of our laying hens from 3 to one year have been moulting since Sept.

Agree with all the statements about chickens. We are now up to 36 chickens from three down to 6 months, I enjoy cleaning their coops each morning and the ground, friendly, chirpy/ But, come next Spring I have to bring to auction several of the ones who will be four and some of the three...

Thank you, printed them out Sandi

Hi, she only walks around with supervision, for a few minutes at a time. Tonite she ate some vanilla yogurt (what we had on hand) and mashed green grapes and a little grower mash, as we have 11 4 to 5 month old chicks. She drank more water with ACV

Oh, the monostat for vaginal infections along with ACV did help I will dampen her food and see what happens

Thank you, when, I pick her up no more smelly fluid coming from her beak. I did purchase Sulmet, began treating her yesterday with sulmet, gave her a scrambled egg, she pecked at it, but, did not eat much or anything, I have her some oatmeal, going back out to check, I am presently drying out...

For days each time I picked her up she vomited , her crop still feels watery, but, she did not vomit fluid yesterday, her feces is loose yellowish.

Hi, the monostat helped, yesterday, I purchased sulmet, added it to her water in the afternoon I will try soupy oatmeal today, I added appple cider vinegar (Bragg's to her water for days)

how long does it take to recover, as she has not eaten in days,