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Can you still eat their eggs while applying the above dewormers?

What is best used to deworm chickens, is there a natural way? Can eggs still be eaten when deworming? I only have 2 and am fairly new to the fluffy butt world.

I have given her probiotics in water daily too. I will try acidified copper sulfate. her poop is good, brown with white caps firm, her crop empty …meaning no bump in mornings. It’s almost like she has a leak when the coating that forms the shell is happening inside her. It’s that white, she lays...

Zierwa Apr 3, 20235211 I adopted a stray chicken last year that was hanging out in my yard. We caught her when it got very cold out to save her and she had freezer burn on her crown. We brought her in last winter and built her an outdoor coop in the spring and got her a friend. She laid us many...

I’ve used natural dewormer, demectics earth, red pepper. The poop good like it should be, but as soon as the brown hen started laying eggs, boom leaky wet butt with white resembling gleet, and only her every time. But if goes away when she breaks from egg laying

I adopted a stray chicken last year that was hanging out in my yard. We caught her when it got very cold out to save her and she had freezer burn on her crown. We brought her in last winter and built her an outdoor coop in the spring and got her a friend. She laid us many eggs all last winter...

What is those spots?

Can I get a few examples, pictures of out door coops that are protected from predators, We are building one for two chickens and want to make it full proof the first time but also would like them to free range when we outside. Your pictures will help Thanks

I would appreciate any help. There is no red, but seems to have a good forming crown happening so this is confusing. Tail feathers seem pointed rather than rounded. I only have one other chicken that was a stray that wondered into my yard last spring that I rescued from the cold winter and she...

Silver laced Wyandotte 8 weeks old is this a male or female