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    Another Scaley Leg Mite threadSo I recently picked up a trio of like bars and I have discovered that

    IT COULD BE A FALSE ALARM - I recently thought FOR SURE a couple of my chickens had scaley leg mites. The legs looked just like every picture of it you could google of the illness or find on forums, I mean identical. It even appeared that one of mine had it pretty bad as her legs seemed so...
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    Odd Claw Growing + Injury

    Has anyone ever seen this? WARNING - there is some blood in photo - nothing life threatening (we hope) There are thin, curled claws growing out of my hen's feet, she is a Maran and about 8 months old. One appears to have been ripped off while she was roaming - I actually had never even...
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    Raccoon Attack in Urban Coop + Older Bird Question

    My story is a sad one and at the same time, lucky. I have TWO questions: 1. How can you best protect birds from predators at night? We had our first causality to city raccoons - at least we think it was a raccoon or maybe multiples. We always close the doors to our coops (that are...
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