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    Freezing molting chicken Please Advise

    Update: She feathered in really fast and is doing well. Not fully feathered yet but mostly. Thanks for your help
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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    hmmm Do they have a chicken show there? I think I attended this show once.
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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    What is the Mass Poultry Exhibition???
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    Freezing molting chicken Please Advise

    Do you think giving meal worms is enough to up the protein? Also they have free choice oyster shell always so Im good there. Someone told me a little scratch is harder to digest so warms them up not sure if that is true or not. They are all currently eating Purina Layena with oyster not sure...
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    Freezing molting chicken Please Advise

    It was hard to get a good picture of how bad the molt is, I didn't want to pick her up and bother her. Her butt and underside is completely gone an her back too. Her head and neck and some of her wing feathers are still there. Ill keep an eye on her today as Im not working today and its good...
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    Freezing molting chicken Please Advise

    Hello, Its been a while since Ive been on the forums and not sure this is a true emergency but my chicken could die so.... I have an Olive egger that literally lost most of its feathers to molt in like two days. This would not normally be a problem but Im in MA and its been below freezing for...
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    Is this scaly leg mite.

    @rascal66
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    Is this scaly leg mite.

    Thank you I’m pretty sure my FBCM has it. So I treated a few. I’ll prob have to do the entire flock. I washed in warm soapy water. Gently scrubbed with fingernail brush. Then soaked in tea tree oil and then covered in Vaseline. I treated three hens. I wasn’t sure about this Easter egger feet...
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    Is this scaly leg mite.

    Not an emergency but is this the beginning of scaly egg mite?
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    Reject Hatching Eggs - aka "The Undesirable Egg Experiment"

    :caf
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    Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

    Coming over form the Feb HAL. Ill be mostly lurking because Im still waiting for my swedish flower and hedamora eggs. If they come in time Ill officially join in. Until then Ill be :pop:caf
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    Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

    Yes it hatched. I got lucky it was able to pip externally without hitting a vessel or anything. It hatched fine but did have minor splay leg and on the second day it came down with pretty serious wry neck. But I treated it and it is now 3 weeks old and doing absolutely fine thank goodness. I...
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    Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

    Phew! All caught up. Have been working outside alot the last several days. Finally built an external nesting box for my second coop and purchased premiere one perma net so Ive been clearing my woods a little and hoping to have that all set up today!! Kinda cold here though 22F this am...
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    Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

    Thank you...never heard of that! Learned something new today :thumbsup
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    Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

    Well if you can see the beak (Im assuming you mean externally) then its getting air and should do ok
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