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    Help - Mites, Molt or Something Else

    Thank you everyone 🙏. Will get on treatment for bumble foot - maybe look at taking her to the VET. We are continuing mite treatment… still minor but I’m aware they’re hard to get rid of. Any recommendations for articles/advice on feather picking if that’s the underlying issue?
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    Help - Mites, Molt or Something Else

    Thanks Alexandra, can you say more? I’m still puzzled by the bare belly, red scaly skin etc… What are you observing that makes you think feather picked? And any suggestions for managing this if it is the issue? Warmly, Krista
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    Help - Mites, Molt or Something Else

    Hello all you lovely chicken-loving peeps, I’m reposting this as I still need help (turns out it’s not smart posting for help on election night 🤦‍♀️) Anyway, I noticed feather loss on two of my girls now more than a month ago (mostly on Matilda our 1yr old copper Maran and Ella our grey Easter...
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    Help - molt or mites?

    Hello - not sure how to provide. Bump here (and maybe my fault for posting on election night…) but I’d still love some help here… Anyone have more input?
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    Help - molt or mites?

    Would this explain the feather loss on her belly though too?
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    Help - molt or mites?

    Hello all you lovely chicken-loving peeps, I’m hoping for some help caring for some of my girls. I noticed feather loss on two of them several weeks ago (mostly Matilda our 1yr old copper Maran and Ella our grey Easter Egger). I thought it might be a first molt initially (it’s spring here in Aus...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    We got 5 today 🙌 and our first new speckled eggs 4 and 5 on the right below - quite a lovely gradient :)
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    Favorite Egg Color Poll

    Just wanted to share these beauties with you chicken loving folks as there’s no one else I can share with that is as excited as I am about these colours - our first five pullets just started laying and it’s a pretty lovely gradient. Hard to capture the darkness of the brown (end) and olive...
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    BCM Roo Quality

    Hello, curious if is this BCM Cockeral is show quality? He’s 7months old. Do any breeding standards allow for clean shanks with BCM? We’re in Aus too. @Chooks man?
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    I have BCM roo. Quality?

    What a wealth of information on this - I’ve been wondering about our 7month old boy below. No feathers on his feet though - is that a disqualification? We’re in Australia if there’s any difference in breeding standards…
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    Managing Flock Living Arrangements

    Ah yes, I discovered that I think he might be a pure bread Australian standard Araucana - does that look right?
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    Managing Flock Living Arrangements

    What a lovely share and pics. Gosh I wish I had foxes around like your one - sound so lovely and would take a little of the pressure off in terms of our concern about them! Sounds like a special relationship that you had.
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    Managing Flock Living Arrangements

    Thank you for all of this. This comment also seems to be so true! (And I haven’t read as much about this point). I’ve noticed changes in Monty that seem directly correlated with how tense I am (even when I’m moving slowly and I think I look relaxed). It’s like he has a sixth sense - when I’ve...
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    Managing Flock Living Arrangements

    Awweee thanks so much for sharing all of that. I do really appreciate hearing about and learning from other people’s experiences even if they are different to my backyard set-up, experience etc. I also appreciate the encouragement :) I’ve been watching him and relating to him differently after...
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    What cross is this?

    And yep - it was a double yoker 🤦‍♀️ So maybe they won’t continue to be so big when she gets going. Today was another 70g-er though 🙌 Curiosity- are double yokers ever the result of surplus fat in the diet? Seems like a good way to expel extra…
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