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    Baby pigeon with skinned back, pecked? head

    A couple days ago I posted a picture in the pigeon talk thread of my recent baby. I peeked in on it today and was shocked to see a large skinned spot on one side of its back, a smaller spot on the other side, and what looked like some peck marks on its scalp. The parents are at that stage...
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    Pigeon injury — Should I be worried? First aid?

    My female pigeons were out flying around when one apparently decided to make a close pass by me – unfortunately just as I leaned over to pick something up. She actually passed under my torso, I think correcting her flight as she did so in order not to hit me because beyond me she crash landed...
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    Chickens freaked out by pile of feathers?

    Our dog ripped a hole in the cover of a century+-old bolster pillow (has a tag with my great-grandmother's name so late 19th C?) and I bowed to the inevitable (rotten cotton) and emptied the feathers in the yard. Rather than having white bits all over the lawn I decided to empty it in the...
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    Another "What killed my [neighbor's] chickens?" thread

    We are chicken- & sheep-sitting for our neighbors, and after their first night away, my husband went over and found this. The chickens had been locked in their winter quarters in the barn while the owners were away, so we didn't have to let them out a.m./put them in p.m (their summer quarters...
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    Age of appearance of wry tail?

    I have 6 chickens approximately 11 weeks old and just noticed yesterday that the tail on one of them is tilting to the right. On reading, it looks like wry tail, which write-ups say is usually genetic. But I'm confused by the timing of the appearance - I'd expect a genetic defect to show up...
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