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    Feather picking, no stopping it now??

    2 of the 12 are a year older and the other 10 grew up together last spring, so year n 1/2 old. the run is plenty large, about 50'x30'. One of the older birds is the only one unaffected, i have ordered pinless peepers already, going to start out with the peepers on only the few most unaffected...
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    Feather picking, no stopping it now??

    Thanks for the info, I just ordered some, hopefully they'll work or just gonna be a lot of chicken for dinner as I can't watch them slowly kill each other!
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    Feather picking, no stopping it now??

    My flock of twelve hens are picking each other horribly for sometime now, started off post molt, then I mistakenly thought mite issue, so the behavior escalated all that time. Added cat food and black oil sunflower seeds to their diet. I've tried separating first just the most assaulted, then...
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    Mites/Lice OR Picking???

    My girls molted several months ago, the Black Austrolopes seemed like they were taking much longer to get feathers back, then I became concerned, did some reading on this forum and decided I must have a mite/lice problem. After dusting them twice, and the coops, things are getting worse!! I...
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    making a dust bath

    Ok, so i'm making a dust bath in a tub for my girls, can I put sevin or permethrin dust in there? (making an enclosed one) Put DE in the mix as well?? thx for the help
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    crop massage contents aspirated, now rattly breathing, what to do?

    I'm still wondering if I should continue to try to expell what's in the crop,? she has pooped and it looked quite normal...
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    crop massage contents aspirated, now rattly breathing, what to do?

    Don't know if I should do something....crop massage for the second time, definitely getting stuff out but then she aspirated it,(comb lost color for a minute, scared me) She's now resting but with a rattliness in her breathing like there's still something caught in her windpipe. Do I wait it...
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    Crop massage

    first time i've dealt w/ a crop issue....the idea of massage is to get it to go down, not come back up? I saw one comment about hanging upside down? got her isolated w/ water only, gave oil last pm, but is much bigger today...thx for any help.
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