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    Help! My Roosters comb is PALE

    Yes, check for mites and lice. A bad case of mites can drain the chicken if it’s blood, making their comb pale and causing them a loss of energy. I’m battling this on one of my hens right now. The last few days her comb has gone super pale and she’s just been sitting around hardly moving. This...
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    Treatment for Sick hen with mites

    What can be done to help aid the recovery of a hen sick with mites (in addition to killing mites?) Discovered one of our hens has a bad case of black mites. She’s obviously not feeling well, her comb is pale and she seems lethargic and anemic. We’ve already cleaned out coop, bought the ultra...
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    Abnormal toe swelling on my bantam rooster

    Our rooster Elvis is about 2 years old now and since he’s a bantam, he has weird feet. He seemed to have sometimes had a limp when he walks but it never stopped him from getting around. We noticed that one of his toes is all swollen with a weird scab on the bottom. (See photos). As you can see...
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    Mystery chicken

    We special ordered a White faced black Spanish from a local feed store, but the feed store mixed up our special ordered chicks and gave us something different because were pretty sure she is not a white faced black Spanish. She has a white chin like other White Faced chicks, but the giveaway is...
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    My young hen is crowing... is she a rooster?

    Haha okay, majority rules it’s a rooster! Thanks for the input. We have a friend that is willing to take him in once he’s older. Thanks again glad I joined the chicken forums :)
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    My young hen is crowing... is she a rooster?

    We got a new batch of chicks about 2 months ago, one of which a Scicilian Buttercup “hen.” She is almost 2 months old. In the last couple days, she has started a very funny crow as her voice changes. We are worried she is a rooster. However, she has the speckled coloring of a scicilain buttercup...
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