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Bumping this thread. I came across these wasps while shopping for other things and thought I'd try them. I'd never heard of them and was just trying to keep the coop cleaned out and used fly traps. I put them out last week and today there are zero flies around my coop. If it was the wasps...

Is the Amoxicillan liquid or tablets? When giving liquid meds I take a small piece of bread and let it absorb the medicine and compact it into a oblong shape. If the meds are nasty tasting I smear a little canned cat food on the outside. most every time my girls will eat it right out of my...

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You can make it thinner. Did you try the egg yolk? I have a batch of 8 right now. One didn't seem to want to eat and wasn't motivated enough to jump in and eat with the rest of the group. I did the hard boiled egg yolk and mashed it up. I took her out of the group so there was no...

One of my girls recently had a vent prolapse with near constant diarrhea. I had to trim all her back end feathers and some under her. It was so bad. after a few wash and blow dry sessions I gave her 1/4 immodium tablet. It was the white multi symptom powdery caplet. That was a game changer...

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I put some feed in a dish then keep adding water until it is completely saturated. Like cooked oatmeal consistency.

One of our girls had that. When we would spray the vetricyn it drove the maggots out so we could pick the off with tweezers. We also packed the spot with antibiotic ointment to try and smother them.

I don't know if it will help but I usually make a mash for my new chicks. Mix water into the dry food so it's mushy. They seem to love that more than the dry feed when very young. I figure they are getting hydrated as well as fed when they eat it. The crumbled up egg yolk is also a good...

Hi, I just had a similar situation. I gave my girl Lilly calcium citrate with vitamin D for several days to help with muscle contractions. Then I gloved up and used a giant blob of 1% cortisone ointment to help with swelling and I gently pushed the prolapse back in place with my finger...

Could you get some inexpensive electric fencing and a solar charger or plug in model, pot it around the coop and turn it on while the chickens are in? A few good zaps should discourage them. Also make your coop as sturdy and impenetrable as possible. We've never had anything get in at night...

Baytril or Enrofloxin have to be ordered. I have had a vet prescribe Clavamox (A variation of Amoxicillan) but I don't think it works as well. But if you have some around the house you could start on that and switch over. https://allbirdproducts.com/products/baytril-10 TSC might have the...

Start giving her calcium citrate with vitamin D. It sounds like an internal infection. If other eggs have broken inside or didn't develop shells that could also cause an infection. An antibiotic like Baytril might help. Acidified Copper Sulfate will help with an e coli infection. I'd just...

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Off her rear end or out of her rear end? If they are on her skin I would look for a wound although they seem too dark to be maggots. Any farm store where you get feed should have de-wormer if they are internal. Ask their advice for chicks or read the label for dosage by weight. It wouldn't...

Yeah, One of mine had an impacted gizzard from eating an old flattened .22 caliber shell casing. I don't know why any chicken would think that would be good. I doubt it was even shiny when she ate it. I'm constantly digging up metal and broken glass here.

My yard is full of water hemlock. Nothing will kill it and it spreads like crazy along the stream and any shady area we can't reach with the mower. The chickens don't even pick at it even though groundhogs will eat the flowers. They know what plants they can and can't eat. Bits of plastic...

I don't know if this will be less expensive or worse. They are tablets so you would have to cut them down, Most of the times I've had a vet prescribe Meloxicam it was liquid. If you also had liquid maybe you could figure out if you get more doses from tablets...

I have had the worst time breaking my husband of stuffing my girls full of grain. Giant handfuls all over the ground. So much that they walk away and leave it there. I feel like this has contributed to some of our birds not being as healthy as they could be. It is cute when they eat out of...