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    Respiratory Disease or hay fever?

    I feel so bad!! Oh my poor chickens:( yes I'll clear out the coop and their dust bath today to get rid of any trace! Ok thank you all so much!:D
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    Respiratory Disease or hay fever?

    Woah that sounds quite scary. I'll give her a thorough look over tonight. Thank you! Ah ok... recently I started giving the girls DE to dust bathe in. I can't remember exactly when I first gave it to them but could this possibly be the problem? Thanks for the info:)
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    Respiratory Disease or hay fever?

    Hi! My millefleur pekin has been making sneezing sounds for a while (a month?) and I didn't know that sneezing was a sign of respiratory diseases. I don't think she has any other symptoms and at the moment she's gone broody so she doesn't appear ill - just angry! Could another option be hay...
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    Scaly leg mites - early signs?

    Ahh thank you so much! Yes I agree, I think I'd better treat her (and maybe all the girls??) I've been looking online at some scaly leg mite treatments.... what do you think of the Nettex brand? What brand do you use?
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    Scaly leg mites - early signs?

    Thank you so much for the info!!!:D I think I'll treat them with a spray just in case - I suppose you can never be too careful! I did a major clean out of the coop the other day with all sorts of organic mite killing sprays and dusted them all thorougly with DE so hopefully that will have done...
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    Scaly leg mites - early signs?

    Ok, thank you! I'm starting to get a little paranoid about mites due to the warmer weather! However, I will keep an eye on all of them. :)
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    Scaly leg mites - early signs?

    Hi! I was checking over the girls today and noticed one had slightly raised scales. She seems very healthy and runs around with her usual vigour. But I realised I know nothing about how to look out for these sorts of mites (other than the scales) or how to treat them. Any info would be really...
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    Broody chicken sitting on another broody chicken??!!

    Thanks for the suggestions guys!! :D Yeah they definitely are a funny couple haha. Well, I've had a go at a couple of the suggestions and what happens is that if I give them some eggs the little pekin steals every eggs she can see and sits on all of them (I've found her with 10 once!) and then...
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    Broody chicken sitting on another broody chicken??!!

    Hi! One of my pekin bantams is broody and another of my girls (a black rock hybrid) started as well. However, the black rock doesn't tend to sit on eggs - rather the little broody pekin bantam!! I'm wondering if this is normal behaviour? And what should I do about it? I'd like to hatch some eggs...
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    Severe outbreak of H5N8 in my local area!!!!!

    Oh I didn't know it could be transmitted in that way! Thank you for the warning! I guess I know what I'll be setting up tomorrow. Yeah I heard about the widgeon and I also read somewhere about a massive flock of ducks being culled in France... devastating.... gosh I'd hate to have to do that.
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    Severe outbreak of H5N8 in my local area!!!!!

    That's terrible! Yeah I was wondering if I could get mine vaccinated too but apparently not!
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    Severe outbreak of H5N8 in my local area!!!!!

    Hi, thank you so much for responding and for the info!! I am located on the south west coast of Wales so there are a lot of seagulls and water fowl near me. My flock usually are free range. However, at the moment I've put them in a large walk in run with bird proof netting over the top, just to...
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    Severe outbreak of H5N8 in my local area!!!!!

    I have no idea what the symptoms in birds are of this influenza and I'm feeling desperate as I can't find any mention of symptoms on the internet! Newspapers are saying to keep poultry indoors and limit all contact with wild birds..... the only thing I can think of is our stables but I know the...
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    My Peking chicken is being chased off??

    Ahh right ok thanks!
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    My Peking chicken is being chased off??

    Hi I rescued them from a school which was hatching eggs from an incubator.... once they'd hatched, the school hadn't known what to do! So I've taken them home and yesterday I just got 8 more hens who I'm slowly introducing:)
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