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    5 Bantam Chicks in Houston TX

    I would love to have them. I have one last, lonely bantam left. A cougar got into our yard. But I live in California. Any chance you might be traveling this way?
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    Egg laying chickens

    Are they bantams?
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    pecking at her feet

    Thank you for your support. I took her to the vet yesterday. He thought, it could be a reproductive problem, as those happen a lot with all our laying hens. And sometimes they cause itchy feet. He gave her a shot of progesterone to interrupt the hormone cycle. In his experience this treatment...
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    pecking at her feet

    Thanks for your reply. The scales are fine. She's pecking most of the time at the same spots, trying to pull her back toes off. Maybe because they are already bloody. And she's week, listless, and droopy. She seems quite sick. Any ideas?
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    pecking at her feet

    One of my bantams is ripping her feet bloody. She seems to be ill. She's slow, wings hanging, doesn't eat. And, worst of all, she's constantly chewing on her legs and toes. My assumption is she lost sensation in her legs. Has anybody observed something like this?
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    Map of potential chicken sitters

    Where can I see this map?
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    white legs

    They just turned white.
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    white legs

    Is white legs the same as an infestation with Knemidocoptes mutans? Our hen has white but not scaly or swollen legs.
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    Map of potential chicken sitters

    Thank you so much.
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    I need chicken sitter

    Thanks, that's a good idea.
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    Map of potential chicken sitters

    Where can I see the map?
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    I need chicken sitter

    Does anybody know someone in Santa Rosa, California, who would be interested in taking care of our poultry when we are out of town?
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    Bantam keeps turning her head hectically. Please help.

    Does anyone know these symptoms? The hen turns her head hectically from side to side, turns it towards the back and then quickly in the other direction. She seems a little confused. She goes onto a nest (not onto the roost) very early in the evening.
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    How often do chickens need to use sand or ash bath?

    Yes, I'd rake it all up.
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    How often do chickens need to use sand or ash bath?

    I'd create a compost pile outside the chicken area and clean up the run. It will get moldy and that's very detrimental to your chickens' health.
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    How often do chickens need to use sand or ash bath?

    Their run needs to be clean and needs to have a space for dust-bathing, unless you let them out to dust-bathe in the yard.
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    run hygiene

    Thank you. That sounds very reasonable. I clean the run twice a day. It's 10 by 10 feet. All dry sand. In winter it gets wet. The chickens are out and gone for half of the day, the quail stay in. I'm worried about all the little parts of poop that can't be scooped up. Those accumulate. And then...
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    run hygiene

    I'm looking for ideas on how to keep a sandy chicken and quail run healthy and sustainable besides the regular cleaning. Is there an organic way to disinfect it a couple of times a year?
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    How often do chickens need to use sand or ash bath?

    My chickens like to dust-bathe every day. They always look for clean soil. And they've never had mites which always surprises our vet.
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    sanitize the run

    I do sprinkle a little bit of oyster flour onto the sand every couple of months to prevent it from smelling. I'm looking for something like a bigger and more thorough spring cleaning.
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