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    day-old chick with "curled feet" (last attempt before culling... )

    it worked super well with the pipe cleaners! i can't find any of our pics but we based it on something like this: http://www.bexlife.com/2009/07/chick-shoes-round-2/ we had to put a bit of pipe cleaner going up the ankle to force the feet in proper position at first, it's awkward for the...
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    bionic mites?! help with warfare pleeeeease!

    From what I see we have northern chicken mites, not red mites (they live on the bird, we can see them around the vent and they transfer on the eggs in the metal nesting boxes). Last night at dark I checked the main roosting plank for red mites (paper towel and flashlight test), nothing. I...
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    bionic mites?! help with warfare pleeeeease!

    bump... anyone?
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    bionic mites?! help with warfare pleeeeease!

    Not a newbie chickenista, I've been through every possible pest infestation with my flocks over the past years and thought I knew how to handle whatever got thrown my way - but this mite infestation is driving me crazy! Need your fellow expert advice please... My flock free-ranges, we are in...
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    Sulkie?

    mine ended up looking like this (first generation: sultan hen and white silkie roo): and the 2nd generation looks like this (white sultan/silkie cross hen and a buff silkie roo, so only 1/4 sultan):
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    rescued guinea hen - OMG! please help!

    Good news - she is definitely a girl (made the buck-wheat buck-wheat call this morning), she is eating and drinking and started pooping again, even though it's a bit mushy and black. I left her fortified water and a mix of laying crumbles, chick starter (non-medicated) and some finch food for...
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    rescued guinea hen - OMG! please help!

    thank you very much Robert, I appreciate the info! just went out to check on her and she had emptied the water container that was on the floor of her coop, i'm very relieved. she also dug through the chick crumbles and seeds, not sure she ate much but it's a start. i plan to keep her...
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    rescued guinea hen - OMG! please help!

    I will give her grit tomorrow in a little container. i just hope she eats and drinks and gets her strength back. i've always wanted a guinea hen but they are hard to find around here... a few days ago i lost my best and oldest hen, she died in my arms after battling cancer for six months...
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    rescued guinea hen - OMG! please help!

    thank you for replying, i appreciate it - i may have been owned by a lot of chooks the past 3 years but a guinea hen is a whole other matter, specially a frightened one that was abused by humans :( in the photo she is looking at two silkie hens in another pen, she seem curious about them -...
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    rescued guinea hen - OMG! please help!

    Last night at 9pm our local SPCA got a call to go rescue a guinea hen that someone had dumped inside one of those metal government post boxes we put the mail in (for mailing). They'd never seen such a stupid act of cruelty - a guinea hen? in the city? really? Anyways they kept her overnight in...
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    miniscule black bugs in coop - not mites, so what are they???

    The mites definitely attacked my weakest hen, she got 95% on her - I don't know how long they've been in the coop but it's so disgusting. I will keep checking the flock every other day and the second i see ONE mite, everyone's getting another dusting. Today is coop cleaning day... So sick...
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    miniscule black bugs in coop - not mites, so what are they???

    ok, thank you! will spray with the permethrin mixture everywhere tomorrow... we dusted all 30 chooks tonight, what a horrible chore - even with a mask on my lungs are burning. the directions on the dusting powder say to repeat in 4 weeks if necessary - does this mean the product kills the...
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    miniscule black bugs in coop - not mites, so what are they???

    I feel like such a heel... Last night hubby and I went in the coop to find out WHERE these bugs were coming from, did the red mite test (nothing), however we did find one hen was dropping these mysterious bugs from her body...... upon inspection with a flashlight we found her CRAWLING with...
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    miniscule black bugs in coop - not mites, so what are they???

    hi everyone, been dealing with horrible miniscule black bugs in the coop lately and have had NO luck in trying to find out what they are, so that they can be killed! please help! we dealt with a giant red mite infestation in our now-defunct chicken coop last summer and these things are...
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    emergency - spreading paralysis, please help!

    thanks everyone... Owen's paralysis spread to his neck and he started having trouble breathing, no way to get food or water into him... he was covered in his own poop and prostrate on his side, unable to move. My husband laid his poor body to rest a few minutes ago as leaving him to suffer...
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