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    Sick one year old hen, pale comb and feather loss, help!!

    Okay, so what im seeing is typical of a mini-molt then? Thank goodness, i was SO worried!!! Ive never had chickens before and lost one a few months back to a cat (who has since been dispatched for messing with my girls) and was terrified i was going to lose another. Since its so cold here...
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    Sick one year old hen, pale comb and feather loss, help!!

    I have a flock of 5 hens, Golden Laced Wyandottes, and theyre just approaching one year old. Before the weather here turned bitter cold (like 6 degrees with wind chill in the negatives) about a week or so ago, my "alpha" hen- Bumble Bea- started getting a pale comb. Its not purple or blue as...
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    4 month old Wyandotte with skin on leg ripped off.. please help!!!

    Thank you so much for your help but we had to put her down when my fiance got home last night. He was able to assess her wounds better than i could and in addition to her leg being ripped open, the entire left side of her breast had also been ripped completely off, leaving only the breast...
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    4 month old Wyandotte with skin on leg ripped off.. please help!!!

    I have 6 4 month old wyandotte hens that are free ranging in half of my yard and have a coop to sleep in at night. I went out this afternoon to give them treats and the hen at the top of the pecking order, Goldie, didnt come to me and showed no interest in the seed mix i was giving away (all my...
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    Silkies, Cochins, and Mystery chick- oh my!!

    The second black one is a boy? I figured it was a hen bc its smaller, doesnt have the same coloring as the first black one, and its comb and waddles arent turning yet.. And the easter is a cockerel too? Do you agree the black ones are cochins? And how will i be able to tell if the cochins...
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    Silkies, Cochins, and Mystery chick- oh my!!

    I have 5 2 month old chicks.. i was given mystery eggs and told they were silkie and "silkie bantam" eggs.. about a month ago i was told on here that i had 2 silkies and 2 cochins.. those predictions were right i believe.. so now i need to know who is the last mystery chick (theyve all...
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    Baby (ish) Feather Picker :(

    I just put them on 18% protein flock raiser about a week ago.. ive checked with local people who also raise chickens and theyre all experiencing feather loss in their flock at exact same location as mine.. its been unseasonably hot this early in the summer and all of their conclusions are that...
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    Baby (ish) Feather Picker :(

    They were purchased at one day old as pullets from a hatchery and all seem to be mostly identical developmentally.. no crowing.. i live in a dense little neighborhood and havent seen or heard of any predators in our area.. we've been trapping for rats (successfully), not sure if they could...
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    Baby (ish) Feather Picker :(

    I checked them out again this evening and now 5 of the 6 are starting to have feather loss in the exact same spot, including the one i believed to be the picker.. the quills look broken at the skin or an inch or so long.. the first girl who started the feather loss is now almost completely...
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    Baby (ish) Feather Picker :(

    Also, in my coop, my 4 nesting boxes are built out from the main coop space, 2 feet deep and 4 feet wide, so does that add to my square footage? Counting those boxes, the coop space is 4x7 (4 1/2 feet tall) and has a large ladder running the entire width and height of the coop from opposite...
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    Baby (ish) Feather Picker :(

    Their feeder and water are both hung from the front of their coop so they can get around and/or under them. Their "step-up" brooder (i started with a large storage tote when they were little and moved them up at 3 weeks) was a 110 gal. livestock watering bin (never been used for livestock...
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    Baby (ish) Feather Picker :(

    I have 6 wyandotte pulletts, one silver laced and the rest gold laced that were hatched on March 16 so they are 3 months old.. i moved them to their outdoor coop about a month ago and within the last 2 weeks ive noticed feather loss.. It started on one and now theres two, possibly 3 who are...
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    Newcastle Disease - euthanasia?

    where are you from? I heard from someone on here that Newcastle isn't in the US, so if you're here, you don't have to worry about that particular disease. Have you checked out/compared symptoms of wry neck to whats going on with your chick?
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    one month old silkie chicks

    I have 2 full blooded silkie chicks and 3 silkie mixes, all around a month old. I plan to use a 5 gal bucket with 5 water nipples on the bottom as their water feeder in the coop so I have made a small water feeder with a gravity water nipple and a Gatorade bottle. It's been in their brooder...
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    day 14, first incubation I've done, AIR CELL PROBLEMS!! Please help!!

    Thanks for asking Annjee!! I had 5 of the 8 hatch.. one that didnt hatch had internally pipped so i made an external pip but the baby had already died.. never moved, peeped, rocked, nothing.. just laid where it was.. i just took my 3 eggs out of the bator yesterday (because i was still...
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    Advantek Solarium?

    Soooo.. todays the day!! Hows she look?! Or have you even had time to check it out? I REALLY hope its great, for both our sakes, lol
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    Silkies & Mystery Chicks, help :)

    Thats so awesome guys! Thank you so much!! ill tell ya what, i have 5 GLWs and 1 SLW, all 2 months old, and so far they were and are still MUCH friendlier than my little silkie mixes.. which is crazy because ive heard from a lot of people that bantams are the best pets but my wyandottes fly...
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    Silkies & Mystery Chicks, help :)

    Yeah i wasnt aware of that when i got the eggs but after reading i realized that the person who my friend got them from must not have a clue what they really had, lol.. Thus, im here, to figure out what these mystery chicks are.. theyre definitely some kind of bantam because theyre all pretty...
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    Silkies & Mystery Chicks, help :)

    I was given 9 eggs from a friend of a friend.. one was a quitter and 3 eggs just didnt hatch for whatever reason. So i have 5 2 week old chicks and have no clue what they are. I was told 4 were silkies and 5 were silkie bantams.. 3 "silkie" eggs hatched (were very light cream and the...
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    Advantek Solarium?

    Lol well at least ya do it right!! i loved the design too. My fiance is building his coop for his GLWs but its so much work so i thought it would be better to just buy onE and i chose the Solarium because, like you said, it seems to hold a lot more and the design is so unique!! But yes, if...
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