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    Does this look like mites or abuse?

    This little olive egger has been with me for about a year. She was straggly when I got her, but now it's starting to look really bad. She seems incredibly healthy and she lays an egg everyday. Now I'm noticing that she's even stragglier, and I saw one of the other girls pecking on her head. I...
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    Bielefelder? I don't know what a chickens ear should look like!

    Is she who they said she is? She just joined my little.flock. This photo makes her look rather slim, but she's definitely a round mound of rebound. I was googling what her comb should look like when she is getting ready to lay, and saw articles that her ears should be red. They look really pale...
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    Polish weirdo

    It might? Def peripheral vision. Should I trim her top knot? She's also becoming a bit aggressive.
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    Polish weirdo

    After losing two hens to a bobcat last week, I've noticed my Polish pulled acting like a weirdo. Because of the bobcat, I have been keeping the remaining 3 in their run. Every time I walk by, the Polish starts doing zoomies- running at speed back and forth in the run. She should be on point of...
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    Bantam Silkie broody?

    Thank you all for your help! Because of the heat, I was letting the girls free range almost every day, and that seemed to be working on her broody mood. But then we suffered a daylight raid by a bobcat. He stole one hen over the wall- gone. Later we found a ton of the broody silkie's feathers...
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    Bantam Silkie broody?

    I'm going to need help with this, I think. She's still broody, and isn't laying. It's been over a month, and I move her off the nest several times a day.
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    Bantam Silkie broody?

    This is new for me - I've never had a broody hen. Yesterday was my annual coop clean out/ power wash day, even though it was 100 degrees. I have 5 assorted hens, three are laying, the others will be soon. We started shoveling out the old sand and hemp, and noticed my bantam silkie was in the...
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    Teenage hens, bloody poop, older hen stopped laying

    Thank you! I'm on day three of the first treatment. I wish I had noted when the older hen stopped giving me her pretty eggs.i will go through the treatment as recommended.
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    Teenage hens, bloody poop, older hen stopped laying

    I have two hen who are about 2.5 +/- years old. Fabulous layers. One has just recently stopped laying. (Came out of molt, started laying, then stopped again, plus white, milky watery poop ). In the meantime, Just brought three new teenagers into the flock, and from day one, one of them has...
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    Sand in run

    Sorry- hit reply too soon!
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    Sand in run

    I had a picture on my post....it's this kind...
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    Sand in run

    I've had sand for three years in my SoCal coop and it's been great. The poop desiccates, I use a cat litter scoop in the roost, and a rake in the run. But these last couple months of downpours have really soaked the sand. I did a couple things to test - on one side, I raked in a large bag of...
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    Heat wave! Help!

    I'm in SoCal, and today is supposed to be the hottest of a long heat wave. I use all of these suggestions...but I bought a stand mister that I can move more easily, and I placed a commercial fan behind it so that it moves the misted air through the run. I've had the string misters in the past...
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    Girls don't like their new coop

    I can certainly try!
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    Girls don't like their new coop

    My four fab girls are mad at me for buying them a lovely new coop. They are dropping eggs everywhere. And I found the first soft shell egg this morning. They've been in the new coop for four days, and are also still sitting underneath the roost, instead of moving around in the large space I...
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