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    Spraddle Leg - Splay Leg Treatment Instructions

    thanks for answering..........we have had much success in our treatment. I first had yarn wrapped a couple times from leg to leg...she peeped alot...then I took that off and placed a bandaid brace that didnt pull the feathers. ...really, it was a couple of them giving her room enough between the...
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    How to stop a rooster from breeding and ripping feathers off hens backs..Spraddle leg method

    The fence around my chickerns is 10 feet high , they are in a pen about 60 feet long and 20 feet wide, with tons of maple trees ...and in 13 years I have never seen anything get in there...not even cats. Because the chicken wire and chain link fencing is too hard for them to climb......Even...
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    How to stop a rooster from breeding and ripping feathers off hens backs..Spraddle leg method

    Well ladies, I have had one too many hens the have their back feathers ripped out from the rooster breeding. I had a spraddle legged baby chick and found the bandaid to be quite helpful. I have Cochins so the feathers go right down to the toes.....I placed 2 bandiaids together...face to face...
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    Is there a way to stop a rooster from breeding.

    he is 14 months old...we have had other roosters up to 3 years old........and they still hit the females hard. I have him in a 20 by 20 pen under the strees with 4 females that have all or most of their feathers...and the other girls go in the coop.... I have hen saddles...but they get flipped...
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    Is there a way to stop a rooster from breeding.

    I have a beautiful silver laced cochin rooster.....he seems to love breeding with 4 of the hens...I live in the upper mountaisn of idaho so we have 4 horrid seasons...that means separating them...means leaving someone out in a large pen...to live it out in weather.....which bothers me...too...
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    3 day old chick with splayed leg?

    Hello.............I just succesfully treated my baby chick who was born with splay leg.....I took 2 bandaids......I clipped off an end to a bandiad and placed it on the sticky part.....thus the bandaid pad and extention were not sticky..I did it to 2 bandaid....making the area around the ankle...
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    Spraddle Leg - Splay Leg Treatment Instructions

    Helllo............I am wondering if everyone that is expereicning spraddle leg is hearing their baby chick tweet......like they are crying. I feel awfull...is this normal? I have her in a nice comfy bandaid brace..she is about 12 days old.......but much of the time she is tweeting and eyes...
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    Spraddle Leg Treatment for Feather Legged Chicks

    hello............I just hached a spraddle legged cochin...I have tried the bandaid method..I cut another bandaid and placed some left- over stickum on the area that touched the leg , that way the bandaid was a stickless tube around the ankle...its been a week for us here .experimenting... she...
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    Bantam Cochin with Spraddle Legs? Help please...I want to save him.

    could you tell me how it went with the bandaid and what size you used. I have 2 week old cochin, been using everything i could think of...am ready toi try bandaids,...but think putting baby oil on the feathers might prevent it from sticking to tape..what do you think? jean
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