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This is the first year we’ve had heritage buckeye chickens, more than one rooster, and a new phenomenon – hens with bare backs. We have nineteen hens, and one rooster per every ten hens is recommended, so two roosters aren’t too many. Still, some of the buckeye hens are literally getting the feathers worn off their backs. There are four of them with bare [...] Continue reading Bare Back Chickens!  After successfully raising the six Red Comet chicks to laying age and twenty eight Buckeye chicks through the first twelve weeks this year, we thought it was going to be smooth sailing. But no, things never go quite as planned….. As the Buckeye’s were moving into week 13, they abruptly started picking the feathers off of [...] Continue reading Feather Picking Chickens  In addition to practicing Biosecurity to protect chickens from disease, vaccination is an effective way to prevent or reduce specific diseases in poultry. Since we’ve had issues with Infectious Bronchitis (IB) in the past and it’s extremely contagious for poultry, we decided to vaccinate our chickens against it. Although we plan to maintain a small-closed flock thereby [...] Continue reading Vaccinating Chickens Against Infectious Bronchitis/Newcastle Disease  Wrinkled Egg – IB Symptom
Back when I wrote about introducing new chickens into a flock (see Introducing New Chickens), I missed one important step, and we’re learning a painful lesson as a result. It wasn’t enough to ask if the new chickens were vaccinated, we should have kept them separate from our flock for [...] Continue reading Infectious Bronchitis in Chickens  Helping a hen recover from a prolapsed vent is often not as difficult as it may first appear – it often just takes some time and a little attention. We’ve had several hens develop the problem and have always dealt with it the same as with our first: One night, when I got home from work [...] Continue reading Curing a Prolapsed Chicken Vent |
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