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  1. poppyflock

    BSL stopped laying...is she a 'dud'?

    @aart I think you might be right about the male hormones. In hindsight, it seems like her comb has really grown in size and become more red over the last few months! I also noticed that the crowing has coincided with our buff orpington starting to go broody. She's been in the nest box for the...
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    BSL stopped laying...is she a 'dud'?

    I checked her vent, not moist and only 1 1/2 fingers between the two pin bones (I think that's the term), which is another reason why I don't think she's laying. Pretty sure she's not eating eggs as all the other eggs are untouched. Plus I'm home during the day pretty frequently and haven't seen...
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    BSL stopped laying...is she a 'dud'?

    ...sunrise. Not a full-on rooster crow, but the kind of crow you hear from a young rooster who's just figuring out how to crow. To clarify, she is *definitely* female. No question about that. But she's crowing at sunrise now. I've been researching and read that this happens occasionally...
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    BSL stopped laying...is she a 'dud'?

    @ChickenMammX4 based on the color of her comb, I agree she looks like she's laying. All 5 of our birds have very distinct egg shapes/colors so I'm pretty darn sure she's not laying (in the egg box, at least). @TJs chicklets thats a really good idea. We have a very small run area directly off...
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    BSL stopped laying...is she a 'dud'?

    @Tlmcq thanks so much for the suggestions on plants to help with egg laying. I'm an avid veggie gardener but don't have any of the plants you suggested...I'll definitely head to the nursery and get marjoram, parsley and comfrey. I agree that she should be a very efficient layer. When I was...
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    BSL stopped laying...is she a 'dud'?

    ...so she'd definitely make it known if she was laying! ☺️ She's appears to be healthy, no lice or mites, no trauma/stress that I'm aware of. She *does* seem a bit overweight at this point, probably because she eats as much as everyone else and doesn't use any of those calories to make eggs...
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    King County, Washington!

    ...chicks (sorry, I didn't see any posts on here til today!), so hopefully they're happy and healthy, where ever they're from! If you haven't - from *my* experience I would not get chicks at BB, but that's just me. :) Like I said, lots of people have healthy birds from BB. My other chicks were...
  8. poppyflock

    Is this lice? Mites? Something else?

    Hi guys, I just wanted to give you an update on Sprinkles since you've been so helpful with everything. Unfortunately she took a turn for the worse earlier this week, and passed away Tuesday night. I sent her remains to the WSU Avian Health Lab for a necropsy because I figured there must be more...
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    Is this lice? Mites? Something else?

    That's really interesting you say that...is it possible for a pullet to molt when they're only like 16 weeks old? I noticed the lack of neck feathers today actually! That's a new thing for her. I was wondering if it had to do with the application of ivermectin. It seems like the feathers are...
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    Is this lice? Mites? Something else?

    Thanks for checking up on us! Sprinkles seems to be feeling a bit better, so that's a relief. I've tried holding her and looking closely to see if I can see any lice (louse?), but she freaks out if we poke and prod her too much. Her head shaking has pretty much completely stopped, so that's a...
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    Is this lice? Mites? Something else?

    @FlyingNunFarm how do you use Elector PSP? I've never heard of it before (at least in my research on BYC, haha). It seems expensive ($150 when I googled it) but if nothing else works, I guess we might have to invest in it. I'll see how the Poultry Dust and Ivermectin work first though, since I...
  12. poppyflock

    Is this lice? Mites? Something else?

    Thanks for the tips @Wyorp Rock ! I actually have the Durvet Vitamins and Electrolytes at my house, so I just gave that to her. I bought it a couple weeks ago but stopped using it because it didn't seem to be making a difference. But I'm guessing it wasn't helping because she still had...
  13. poppyflock

    Is this lice? Mites? Something else?

    She's still pretty lethargic and sickly looking unfortunately. Thanks for checking on her though! She's been under the weather for the last couple months (probably due to having lice!) so I think it's going to take at least a couple weeks for her to really start feeling better, even with the...
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    Is this lice? Mites? Something else?

    Thanks @Wyorp Rock and @wildernesschic5 ! After doing some research, @wildernesschic5 , I think you're right that they're not mites. And @Wyorp Rock , I agree they look like lice nits. I did get some poultry dust at the feed store today and dusted her with it. Hopefully that does the trick! I...
  15. poppyflock

    Is this lice? Mites? Something else?

    Hoping I can get some advice...this is Sprinkles, our 16-ish week old Speckled Sussex. This evening while I was holding her, I noticed she has this white, crusty stuff under her beak and neck area! It's hard, crusty white stuff and stuck to the feathers. I have no idea what it is. Maybe lice or...
  16. poppyflock

    Warning-poop picture! What is this?

    Sorry you're having such a difficult time with our new birds. I'm a fairly new chicken owner so I'm not the most knowledgeable, but the bloody poop makes me think they may have coccidiosis. Our birds also had it and had some droppings that looked similar. We treated it with Corid, which you can...
  17. poppyflock

    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    We got our first egg this morning! From our red sex link, who's 17 weeks old. Its a very cute and little egg. :) She laid it in the nesting box right next to the fake egg! Fake one is on the left, real one is on the right: Store bought egg on the right, new one on the left:
  18. poppyflock

    King County, Washington!

    @ochochicas they're about 14 weeks old. And I agree that the symptoms of the two diseases seem very different which was why I was skeptical about them having coccidiosis. However the owner of Baxter barn said he's seem coccidiosis manifest in many different ways besides just the typical...
  19. poppyflock

    King County, Washington!

    @sphinxface thanks for the vet suggestion. When you say Crossroads do you mean like in Bellevue? That's not too far from us. We did consider getting blood work and I called a vet in Bothell that treats chickens, hoping they could just take a blood sample and have it processed. They said we'd...
  20. poppyflock

    King County, Washington!

    Just wanted to update you all - my boyfriend had a long phone conversation with Cory this morning. He was very helpful and understanding. He really thinks it's coccidiosis and not coryza. I'm not 100% convinced he's right about that, because the symptoms don't seem to point to that, but he is...
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