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    13 week old lavender orp and jersey giant

    Thank you! My assumption for the jersey giant is based on comb + wattles + saddle feathers and I noticed it sooner. For the lavender orpington, I wasn’t able to tell sooner from the feathers but obviously the comb and wattles are prominent — can you also tell from the feathers?
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    13 week old lavender orp and jersey giant

    Bought 5 “sexed” pullets (we know how that goes) and I think two are roosters. They’re 13 weeks old. Tia!
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    Hen has been sickly for 2 weeks

    She may be dehydrated — she drinks water when she’s initially given it, but she doesn’t drink much. Same with food — she will ravenously eat it at first, but a couple hours later I notice she didn’t eat much in total. I checked her crop first thing this morning. She’s in a bath tub and had...
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    Hen has been sickly for 2 weeks

    Yes, a big roo— a light Brahma I’m thinking about trying a dewormer, even though her newest poop doesn’t have any worms or maggots. It does have a lot of the white sticky urine cap, though. Should I deworm the whole flock? It’s 9 chickens total I’ll keep checking her crop too. Thanks!
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    Hen has been sickly for 2 weeks

    Hi! Thanks for your questions — I should have included most of this . I’ll try to answer them. I adopted these chickens from a neighbor who had to move suddenly in march. —she is between 1 - 2 years old. My neighbor started her flocks as chicks in summer 2020, and she was not part of original...
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    Hen has been sickly for 2 weeks

    Hello, all! My copper marans hen has been off for about 2 weeks (maybe a little longer). Here are her symptoms: - VERY thin - Unable to use ramp to enter and exit raised coop and to hop up into things over a couple inches off the ground - Loses balance and sticks a wing out, but rarely flaps...
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    Coop sand - smelly?

    I have a raised 12ft x 12ft (might be bigger - definitely not smaller) coop. The floor is stick-on linoleum tile. This week, I switched from deep bedding to sand, after hearing a lot of success and having to remove everything for a mite clean out. However, I’m already not liking the sand, and...
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    New Marylander

    Hello! I’m technically new, although this is my second post. I’ve already found this community very helpful and friendly! I’m not creative, so I’ll use the intro template: (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Not new — I had a flock of up to 10 from about 2016-2019...
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    Mite bites on me - are they in my house?

    Thanks! I didn’t see many (maybe not any?) mites when I was cleaning the coop, so I don’t think I had many… but I guess it only takes a few from the bedding to chew you up. And I laughed out loud at the imagined mites… I have felt like my skin is crawling so much these last few days. We...
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    Mite bites on me - are they in my house?

    Exactly! My mind went straight to thinking I was going to have to clean the whole house, call an exterminator, and live the next X number of weeks battling some kind of infestation! Luckily I haven’t gotten new bites (aside from some mosquitos, but I feel those immediately) in several days. I...
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    Mite bites on me - are they in my house?

    I did read about mite predators and my partner was fascinated by this idea. He’s growing soldier flies now so he’s really into good pests. Have you tried it?
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    Mite bites on me - are they in my house?

    @TOR @rosemarythyme I cleaned whole coop, sprayed elector psp, sprayed chickens. While cleaning the coop, I found some very small grayish bugs that looked more like book lice or something and 1 or 2 bugs that looked mite shaped (not 100% sure they were mites). Didn’t see a single mite on...
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    Mite bites on me - are they in my house?

    Thank you!! I was convinced for a whole day or two that I had bed bugs. Except only some of my bites were in a line and others were solo bites. But all were on skin that was exposed while I was holding the chicken, so I’m hoping I didn’t bring any indoors and it just took a couple days for some...
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    Red roost mites?

    I think I’m also comparing these itching to a really bad case of chiggers I got a few years ago where I ended up scratching my skin off my shins because I scratched them so bad. I had at least 60 bites. It was so bad. Thanks again for your responses. Bugs really freak me out, so a possible...
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    Red roost mites?

    Wow, thanks for your quick reply :) How long after getting bit did you notice your bites? It took me anywhere from 12-48 hours to notice all the bites I ended up with. Wondering if the ones I didn’t scratch didn’t itch until they were scratched, if that makes sense.
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