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  1. SavageDestiny

    How long to treat for scaly leg mite?

    I have a friend who has 3 chickens- bantam Cochin, EE, and a Mottled Java she's only had about a month. I went over to her house yesterday, and while I was there I noticed it looked like her girls had scaly leg mite. Crusty, raised scales on the Cochin and EE, although the Java doesn't seem to...
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    Very stressed out pullet!

    I went to a poultry swap yesterday and came home with a 4 month old Mottled Java Pullet. She is absolutely gorgeous! I picked one up for a friend of mine who couldn't make it to the swap as well, and both girls came home with me until my friend could pick hers up. While they were together...
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    Bumblefoot without scab?

    So, I have a nearly one year old Easter Egger. Lays great, active, super friendly. She injured her leg somehow about a week after I got her. I got her in early March. I could never find any injury on the leg or foot and she gets around fine. I check all my girls over every 7-10 days or so...
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    Wyandotte will not lay in nest boxes.

    I'm having an issue with my Golden Laced Wyandotte girl. She just started laying a few weeks ago. From day 1 she decided to shun the nest boxes and lay on the floor of the coop. I don't really want her doing this since I use the deep litter method. She got the other 2 girls laying on the floor...
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    Swollen abdomen- culled and found tumors... GRAPHIC PHOTOS!

    I'm posting this just so others might learn something too. :( I did tonight. Posted this a couple days ago: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/888470/poopy-butt-feathers From her symptoms (swollen. liquid filled abdomen and weight loss) I assumed she had EYP or was laying internally...
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    Poopy butt feathers?

    My four girls seem to be healthy- eating (enthusiastically), drinking, laying, scratching around, etc. I find some watery poops in the run but also plenty of firm poops as well. However all four of them have poop caked all over their butt feathers. I've only had them a few months but this didn't...
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    Choking/eating too fast or something else? Video included.

    First and foremost, video of the behavior. That is from this morning during their breakfast. Tillie, the Easter Egger in question, did this yesterday morning as well. However, she did NOT do this when eating their "snack" of various leafy greens later in the day, and did NOT do it while...
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    Please help, I'm losing my mind here!

    Can someone please help me out? I am having such a hard time with my girls. I got 4 chickens just about 3 weeks ago, never had them before. I have had nothing but problems with them. I made a thread here about the irritated skin I found immediately, then the lice I found...
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    Critique my diet?

    I want to feed my chickens a home made diet of fresh, whole foods. I don't believe in premade pelletized foods for any animal, and especially for animals that are producing food I eat. Right now I have 4 pullets almost a year old, I just got them 2 weeks ago. Love them! I've done a lot of...
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    Bald and red on her underside

    I just got 4 ladies, my first chickens, on Saturday evening. I got home with them after dark and put them straight in their coop to have overnight to adjust. They all came from the same flock. Sunday morning when I let them out I checked each one over and noticed that the Black Sex Link, Berta...
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    Fish meal vs. raw meats in home made feed

    Soo I'm curious. I want to make my own feed, and include animal protein in the girls' diet. Most people recommend fish meal, but I am not keen on using it. Fish meal in the U.S. by law has to be preserved with ethoxyquin, which is a pretty awful chemical that has been linked to various health...
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    Anyone feed bugs other than mealworms?

    And no, I don't mean the chickens free ranging and finding their own bugs. :) I know some people raise mealworms to supplement their chickens' diet, especially during winter. I was wondering if anyone raised and fed any other bugs like crickets or roly polies? I know both of these are fairly...
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    My journey towards chickendom!

    Well, I finally got both husband and landlord approval for chickens! The landlord was much easier- he actually laughed at me for bothering to ask. So I decided to keep a thread going with each stage of getting ready for the chickens! First and foremost, I had to clean up the yard area they're...
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    Fixing my username...

    SO I feel really silly. I suppose I did not proof read well enough when I made my account and... my username is now "SsvageDestiny" instead of "SavageDestiny" as I intended it to be. Clumsy fingers! Is there any way this can be fixed? :(
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    Wild quail in danger from domestic chickens?

    I live in an area where wild quail are rampant. I live in Central Oregon, and the species common here is the California Quail (at least I think so, haha). My husband and I may be moving onto some property here in CO next year. I would really like to raise chickens for meat and eggs. Reading...
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    New to everything chicken!

    Hello there! I currently do not have any chickens, but hopefully in the next year or so my husband and I will be moving onto 11 acres of property here in Central Oregon. Once we have some space I'd really like to start keeping chickens for eggs and meat. Probably meat rabbits too. :) So I'm...
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