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  1. henrysue

    Mites, molting, pecking??? Pics of my chicken.

    My hen's tail recently began taking on a frazzled look. I've looked at it a couple times, but I don't see any insects. I see my hens occasionally picking feathers off each other, but nothing that looks like pecking at this one. Moulting? She's only 5 months old. When I look close, I see bare...
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    Just want to share my sevin dust experience with you...

    ...Because it turned out OK! In my sevin research I found a lot of questions about the safety of its use on poultry but not a lot of comments on chickens ingesting it in large quantities. One of the reasons I got my chickens is for earwig control. For outside the fence I bought some Sevin...
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    I wasn't going to care, but curiousity is killing me...

    Here are two of my five chickens. The other three are obviously a barred rock and RIR. They all came from the "free chick days" at the local feed store, so I know they're just going to be standard breeds. I can't tell the difference between all the white chicken breeds and the same with the tan...
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    Am I spoiling them... or is the food switch just not going well?

    I realized a few days ago that my start and grow was just about out, so I've moved to the switch to layer feed (19 weeks old). They've picked all the start and grow out of the mix, and haven't touched the pellets for days. Every morning before I go to work I give them a treat bowl with left...
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