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  1. chicknmania

    pullet pulling her own feathers

    beekeeping will be interesting. I think you can get beeswax at most health food stores, but we don't have one real close.
  2. chicknmania

    pullet pulling her own feathers

    That' s my theory. funny story in here about a rooster being terrified of his hen when she started wearing her saddle. He ran away from her and she would run after him, totally confused, lol. I'm hoping that might happen here. They have a pattern you can get it's skull and crossbones with a...
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    pullet pulling her own feathers

    I'd like to try the plaintain salve but I just never have any time lately.
  4. chicknmania

    pullet pulling her own feathers

    Thanks for asking, she's doing ok. Feathers are slowly growing in. I read they can pull the new blood feathers just because they taste good. She hasn't pulled any lately but I know she would like to go back out with the flock. Seriously thinking of getting her a saddle but I'm worried she...
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    pullet pulling her own feathers

    Thank you! Maybe i'll try that, we have lots of plantain around. She's doing better. I think it was just a nervous thing. I just hope she'll mingle ok with the flock again when her feathers finally grow back out.
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    pullet pulling her own feathers

    If I let her back out with the flock before her feathers grow back, she will go back to doing what she was doing when we caught her. She avoids the cockerels, stays with the alpha roo and his hens during the day, and then at night she refuses to go back to the barn to roost, because that's...
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    pullet pulling her own feathers

    We've had Bitsy the BR Bantam since last November. she started losing feathers on her back after her sister died. They were close and always ran together. I thought maybe the roos had rubbed her back raw, she was avoiding them. So I put her in a pen, this past Saturday, so that her feathers...
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