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    Silkies won't stop brooding!

    My big Silkie Baby started brooding again. She does this once every other month, both her and her sister brood often. The only problem is, we don't have a rooster and she seems to always sit on the nest without eggs (we have three available nests for the chickens) so there's no logical reason...
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    What breed are my 4 chickens?

    I honestly couldn't tell you any of our egg colors other than our Silkies lay light brown eggs and our Polish one lays white eggs. I never seem to catch them in the act, I usually just find about 5 eggs waiting for me daily. They definitely have scaly leg mites, I found that out earlier this...
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    What breed are my 4 chickens?

    Oh how cool! I googled the breeds and they match perfectly with the girls. Everything seems so clear now
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    What breed are my 4 chickens?

    Must've caught her bad side then lol.
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    Treating the runt

    The runt of my flock is admittedly my baby and she tends to get pushed to the side and slightly bullied by the other girls. Nothing physical but they'll take hanging food from her beak and like I said, push her away when it's feeding time and they're hungry. She doesn't fight back or resist, but...
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    What breed are my 4 chickens?

    I actually have 9 chickens altogether but I know the breeds of the other 5 now (thanks to BYC!). Here are my girls: Lola: Hildegard: Esme: And Melody (her comb is too big for her head, is it that noticeable lol):
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    Help? Skin disease?

    The sick bird in the picture and her sister are 15 months old. I'm not sure of the exact ages of my other birds but its also somewhere between 12 and 15 months. Our oldest bird is 4 years old.
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    Help? Skin disease?

    It's already dark out so the girls were on their perches. I thoroughly looked over the coop for mites and found three or four small ones so it might be too soon or too ignorant but I think my cleanup helped. Then I rubbed some sunflower oil (that's all I have on hand, I'll buy vaseline tomorrow)...
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    Help? Skin disease?

    That's really helpful thank you! I'll make an appointment with my vet for asap...
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    Help? Skin disease?

    She also yawns a LOT before I forget to mention that. She was yawning just now and last week she had some kind of yawning attack where for like 5 minutes straight all she did was yawn.
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    Help? Skin disease?

    Thank you both! I just separated her and fed her a bowl of tuna with some dried meal-worms (those are her favorite). But as I was so close to her (none of my chickens like being near people and hate being touched) I noticed that she whistles when she breathes. Not sure if on the inhale or exhale...
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    Help? Skin disease?

    16-18% protein? I just checked and their current food has 9.2% raw protein. Also as an opinion question, my chicken is very small and if I try to feed her something special the other chickens will push her out of the way without letting her have anything. I should probably separate her from the...
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    Help? Skin disease?

    Should I then switch to a high protein diet? More eggs, meats, broccoli, and cooked beans?
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    Help? Skin disease?

    We feed them normal chicken feed we get from the store. Corn, seeds, etc. They also get all table scraps that chickens can eat. Would we need a vet? She hasn't shown any symptoms like lethargy or anything.
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    Help? Skin disease?

    Her gray flaky face
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