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    My crazy bantam has gone broody and sitting on an empty nest

    Hi there! My bantam girl has been sitting for over a month. She is about a year and a half old and never went broody before. I have wet her down with a cool water hose, locked her out all day from the hen house and she cries and screams if I keep her away from her empty nest too long. I also...
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    Help with poor Polish head

    Update! Well, we decided to try letting the polish free range with our 2 banties. At first the banties were giving her a hard time but it has been 4 days now and they seem to be getting along pretty good. As far as free rangin goes, they are really just hanging around the pen all day by the big...
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    Help with poor Polish head

    I never thought of bitter apple.. any body tried it yet? My poor lil polish is doomed to a life alone. Tried to put her back in the pen last night and they just converged on her in about 2 seconds pecking at her head. They just dont want her in with them. Feel bad for her cause she cries in the...
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    Black Crested Polish Free in Asheville, NC

    Susanne, That sounds like a great idea! Please check with me when you come through asheville in July, k? My email address is [email protected]. If you email me there i will give you my phone number...I live about 15 minutes north of Asheville proper and could meet you anywhere there. Thanks Brenda
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    Black Crested Polish Free in Asheville, NC

    i will go back to my pic files and see if I can find a pic of her.. Right now her head feathers are a mess from the Blu-Kote..If you give me another day or two I will post a pic of her when her "hair is semi-normal".haha I never heard of a Muff Auracauna. I have 3 Auracanas and they have also...
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    Help with poor Polish head

    I forgot to ask you if that is cooked or raw burger?? Prolly a stupid question from me .. ha
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    Help with poor Polish head

    Lol, its worth a try...I did throw in a hardboiled egg to distract them when I put her back in...it worked for about 3 seconds!
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    Black Crested Polish Free in Asheville, NC

    Need to find a home for a real sweety! She is 7 and a half weeks old and she was my free"rare" chick from MacMurray. None of the other chicks will accept her and keep picking at her beautiful white Top Hat. I prefer that she goes to a home with like chicks, any crested types... Brenda
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    Help with poor Polish head

    ok, update. I kept the polish in a box since yesterday and today bought blue kote and applied it to her head. She had no more bleeding there and I noticed that some of the plucked feathers were sprouting up...so, I put her back in the pen with the others and immediatly 4 other chicks started...
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    Help with poor Polish head

    Oh and Thanks to you all for your help, once again!
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    Help with poor Polish head

    I took her out of the pen and put her in 4X4 box with a screen on top and made a little screen door and also a perch. food and water in there, too. she is on my porch right now, crying,,,,,,,,,stressed out. tomorrow i will buy some blue kote. if after she heals and they still wont leave her...
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    Help with poor Polish head

    I am at my wits end. My chicks are all 7 weeks old. For the last 2 weeks all the other chicks have finally left the Black Crested Polish's top hat alone. Now, this morning I go out to let them out of their house and she was bleeding where the others have plucked out her feathers on her head...
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    Chicks piling in corner at night

    Thank you! My husband placed a small solar garden light out there(very tiny light). Maybe it will help as well. Tomorrow night we will sneak them on the roost...lol
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    Chicks piling in corner at night

    My chicks are six weeks old. We put them in the hen house about a 2 weeks ago with a heat lamp. We stopped using the heat lamp a week ago and it is getting so hot here (90) today that we stopped using it. They are huddling in one corner on top of each other practically..... they are not roosting...
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    Bantams want in Pen too

    Thank you , I wont try again for a while. And you are right, she went right for the feeder and filled up!!!
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