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    TINY "DWARF" SILKIE!

    Please see the attached picture of my FOUR week old Silkie, "Tiny!" She is in a brooder with 6 ONE week old Silkie chicks, along with another of the 4 week old Silkie chicks that were bought and raised right in the same brooder along with Tiny and 15 other of their "chick-mates!" As you can...
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    SILKIES

    Please see the attached 2 pictures showing my LITTLE Silkie chick, which I've named "Tiny." She (I know I haven't a clue if it's a boy or girl, but since I take "her" out and love on her every day, I've decided that it's a she, just because she's so darn adorable! In the first picture, you see...
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    Mange In Chickens?

    Hi...I would like to 1st say regarding the prior statement. I'm sorry, but your comment sounded somewhat sarcastic...about We have a winner, mange is just another word for mites. Actually, everything I have read about "mites" on the Backyard Chicken website has been regarding the "typical"...
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    Mite Treatment

    I treated my Easter Eggers Rhode Island Reds with Ivermectin, 3 times (7 days apart), for a wild bird mange mite. I was successful in catching and treating all of the flock EXCEPT for ONE Rhodie on her 3rd treatment today. She just kept escaping me. We've sprayed their coops with 10% bleach...
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    Easter Egger Question

    I am SURE! Like I said, I have been literally PARKED in front of their coop, for 3 weeks so I can document which pullet has laid which color egg. I write that pullet's name and date on each egg and have been saving the eggs for comparison. If I don't actually SEE that pullet lay the egg, I...
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    Easter Egger Question

    I have a small flock of 6 Easter Egger pullets, which are now just starting to lay their eggs. I raised them from day old chicks, and they all look quite different, so I certainly can tell them apart. I understand that Easter Eggers will only lay one color for its lifetime. My question is: IS...
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    Missing feathers and scabs

    Just to let you know, I had the exact same problem as your pictures in my entire Easter Egger flock! I was beside myself trying to figure out WHAT it was! Their skin was turning yellow, and their feathers were either falling out or breaking off. Plus they were developing scabs all over. I...
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    Missing feathers and scabs

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    HELP! My Rooster is sounds terrible when he breathes!

    My Rhode Island Red Rooster is 20 weeks old. He looks and acts normal. He is crowing, beginning to breed his ladies (same age) and in all other aspects, acting fine. But we noticed when he began to crow, that at the end of each crow, he sounded like a baby cat, or like he was sucking in air...
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    HELP! My chickens have weird, yellow skin patches!

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    HELP! My chickens have weird, yellow skin patches!

    I just wanted to let you all know that I found the answer. Not to question your knowledge, but I knew it wasn't as simple as "rooster treading" as my rooster is quite the gentleman with his ladies. Plus, this "crud" has been spreading all through my flock, even now onto him! It doesn't...
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    HELP! My chickens have weird, yellow skin patches!

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    HELP! My chickens have weird, yellow skin patches!

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    HELP! My chickens have weird, yellow skin patches!

    We have 8 Easter Eggers, and noticed that 1 of them had her feathers along the base of her tail all askew. So I looked carefully and saw this strange yellow skin color, that is also a thickened, and in some places a bit scabby. Also, the feathers in that area are broken off and/or growing...
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