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    Is it tinea?

    I use wood shaving as bedding. She is only four month old. I feed her with grain mix. I am in Victoria Australia.
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    Is it tinea?

    Here is the photo to show the problem
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    Is it tinea?

    Help! How to treat this problem. Always see she is hiding in the corner and thought she is shy. But picked up her today and found she has lost lots weight. Then flap her feather found she has this big problem. Seems she is very pain when I touch her. Someone said it is tinea. Very smelly too...
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    Is it ok to remove mum from her new born chicks

    My Girl Susex looks ok now. She is not sitting outside of that broodor and walk around backyard. She chicks even sleep under RIR at night. In the day time, RIR would peck them when they get close to her. I think they are all happy now.
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    Is it ok to remove mum from her new born chicks

    Thank you. The cage is an enclosure that insulated with sofa seats and sun roof. It is like a green house. Or call it brooder. The size of it is 1m by 2m to house 15 chicks and one RIR hen. I put in a eletric heater inside to keep them warm as well. The temrature is around 30 degrees inside. If...
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    Is it ok to remove mum from her new born chicks

    The mother is RIR who has hatched 10 babies and she is inside of cage with a heater. Another one outside is the Light Susex who got five babies. Now the RIR only look after hers and peck others from Susex who is not in the cage. The susex is sitting outside for two days already.
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    Is it ok to remove mum from her new born chicks

    I have two broody hens and hatched chicks in different days. But I only have limited space to put in one hen with new born chicks. Also they peck each other's babies inside the enclosure. So I moved out one hen from that cage two days ago. Now the other hen always peck those chicks who are not...
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