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    Skin peeling off hen's feet/ Crusty butt

    It's the feet and legs. I've seen scaly leg mites and this is really more like the skin is just sloughing off. Ugh really awful poor thing.
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    Skin peeling off hen's feet/ Crusty butt

    My poor little problem child hen has been through so much, every time we fix something a new problem arises! 1. Anyone have ANY idea what could cause the skin on her feet to start peeling off? Some of it is very dry and peeling off no problem, but it is peeling off deep in other areas-...
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    Large brown balls inside egg?

    So I cracked open one of my hen's eggs this morning when I found 2 large brown balls next to the yolk. They were way bigger than blood spots, about 1/3" diameter. Any idea what this could be?? WEIRD!
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    Mouth/tongue sores, no scales on feet, painfully thin- where to start??

    Thank you so much! The iodine has already made a difference. We have been tube feeding her and she already looks perkier. Will just wait and see. Went ahead and wormed her as well, just in case that was why she wasn't absorbing any nutrients. The scaled thing has been since she was...
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    Mouth/tongue sores, no scales on feet, painfully thin- where to start??

    The chicken has been quarantined completely. I really just wanted some pointers as to what people might think is wrong given the multiple issues. I have quite literally brought a chicken back from the dead before (she is now one of my most beautiful and vital chickens) so I learned to not give...
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    Mouth/tongue sores, no scales on feet, painfully thin- where to start??

    I have a 10 week old with MULTIPLE issues, I have been scouring the forums and I am trying to pin down what it may be so I can give the best treatment. Need poultry expertise here! So she has always been on the small side (she's a speckled sussex). For the past few days I have noticed she...
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    Comb almost ripped off- hanging by a thread! Scared of dubbing!

    Thank you so much for the replies! Must pick up some blood stop tomorrow then I'll just snip it off. My poor little girl! Thank you!
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    Comb almost ripped off- hanging by a thread! Scared of dubbing!

    Ok....so I can see I will probably have to "dub" my poor little bantam now....I don't know exactly what happened. Whether she got stuck somewhere and ripped it, or someone else ripped it off, but her poor little rosecomb is now hanging by a thread. It has stopped bleeding thank God. So I see a...
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    Growth on leg of rescue roo- help!

    Thanks for the welcome! I will definitely give what you wrote a try- poor little guy...he must be so uncomfortable....his legs are just so raw :( What's the usual time frame for getting rid of the old scales and new scale growth? Do you wait for the old ones to molt or do you do any manual...
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    Growth on leg of rescue roo- help!

    Hi! Recently rescued a little bantam roo and am trying to figure out what's going on with his feet. It definitely looks like scaly leg mites but he also has a couple large growths as well. Also his legs are really red and raw. The growths are on bilateral hind claws, you can see it towards the...
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    Foxes and electric fences and/or traps

    So about 2 months ago, we lost all of 12of our chickens to a fox around 7pm (still light out!!) . We keep out chickens free ranging during the day in a 15x30 foot fenced yard and lock them inside their secure coop around 6pm every day. That night we were late locking them in their coop (I just...
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    Male to female ratio in Jumbo Coturnix covey

    Ok, got it- Would it be OK then if I only have 1:2 or 1:3?
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    Male to female ratio in Jumbo Coturnix covey

    So I am a new quail lady, and I have a question about workable male to female ratios in a covey. I have raised 14 jumbo coturnix quail from 1 week old, and I plan to give 10 to my friend who is getting into quail with me. I am only keeping 3-4 for myself, so I was wondering which is better: 2...
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    Started incubating with eggs wrong side up, is it too late??

    Thank you so much... I just can't believe how much there is to know!! Still beating myself up here... Ugh... :(
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    Started incubating with eggs wrong side up, is it too late??

    Hello all! Newish chicken mamma here, and first-time chicken hatcher :) I'm feeling SO stupid right now, as I just realized that I placed my eggs in the turner (I'm using a LG forced air incubator with motorized egg turner) Large side down....which I see now is wrong wrong wrong :( I have...
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