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    Pullet moving slowmo

    Okay, as of last night I have one ear completely clear (YAY!) and still working on the second ear. Well, now this morning when I let the chickens out….. I saw another young girl acting off, like Poppy did in the beginning 🤦🏼‍♀️ when I do my inspection when I get home, and she looks perfectly...
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    Pullet moving slowmo

    Thank you so much for replying 🫶🏻 first ear infection I’ve dealt with in the 8 years I’ve been keeping chickens, it felt very overwhelming 😅
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    Pullet moving slowmo

    Tonight, I got the main plug out of both sides. But most of the side inside wouldn’t come out by pressing on the side. I was able to get quite a bit out by using a blunted toothpick. But there’s still some deep inside… I sprayed her ear with vetericyn spray and I’m hoping it’ll work itself to...
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    Pullet moving slowmo

    okay, something I just noticed tonight. It actually looks like her ears might be swollen? She is an Easter egger but doesn’t have the beard and muff. And definitely look swollen to me? Ironically, yesterday I saw her dustbathe for the first time since last Thursday, and she was back in the...
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    Pullet moving slowmo

    Okay, I’ll try that. No new birds. Her and the other 4 pullets are the newest birds to the flock.
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    Pullet moving slowmo

    I offered her an egg yolk this morning, I sprinkled a few grubs on top to entice her, she acts slightly interested, but doesn’t actually go for it. I broke the yolk and physically dipped her beak, which she licked off.. then wiped her beak off and still uninterested. Very perplexed by this...
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    Pullet moving slowmo

    The scratch and peck feed, fermented - a few spoonfuls per bowl. There’s always left over. Dry feed - a big scooper cup spread between 3 bowls. Scratch and peck is the brand name of feed. I offer regular “scratch” in the morning spread on the ground in the run, a few handfuls between 14...
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    Pullet moving slowmo

    Oh, and they get femented scratch and peck adult food. But for the last 5 days, I’ve been giving them plain dry food. In case she did have a crop issue I couldn’t detect and didn’t want extra fermentation going on in her body.
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    Pullet moving slowmo

    Hi y’all - sorry for the super lame title, but I am at a loss.. One day my 19wk old pullet was running about like a teenager, the next she was a little bit slower. I kept an eye on her, she drank water, attempted to peck at some food and scratch on the ground. The next day she was visibly, much...
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    8 wk old Easter eggers

    That is wonderful news!! 😅 the colour blooming on the combs started to make me sweat a little. But I just adore them 😍
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    8 wk old Easter eggers

    Wow okay, so these chicks are hurting my brain. And I’m hoping by posting these chicks it’ll further help others who are also scouring the internet for photos that look like their chicks. I had two classic EE’s, chipmunk colouring, peacombs - easy peasy! Flash forward to Jan 31 and I see these...
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    Chicks in the rain

    I’ve had chickens 8 years now - but I’m stumped. I’ve never had baby chicks this early in the year with all the crappy weather and it’s a big fat drag. I haven’t been able to bring the girls out for longer than an hour like 2x’s a week because of the rain, wind and just plain cold weather. Well...
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    Roo picking on older roo

    Sorry I missed the notification, but we have settled into a routine. I’ll come in and open his coop door first, but Wyatt will still wait to get pushed out by Jareth. When he does, I try to have the run door wide open for him to run through. And then he’ll be a free ranging boy all day, and wait...
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    Roo picking on older roo

    Their run is an old horse paddock, it’s gotta be 20x20ft or more. I have 12 in the flock, including the two boys. They aren’t free range, unless I’m home, with the exception of the two girls who regularly fly out of the run for the day haha Okay, you’re right - I’m going to give it a little...
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    Roo picking on older roo

    They’ve been together as long as the polish has been a chick, he’ll be a year old in June. And this has only started last week.. I just feel so bad for my old boy because his heart problem, he can’t run for more than one burst before his comb is purple and drooping. I’m hopeful they’ll work it...
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