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  1. watersoflethe

    I'm so shocked and sad Please Help Hen is DEAD

    Please Help me understand why my hen is dead. I'm quite worried that it was some kind of disease or something. I had a beautiful easter egger hen named Hemera that was getting to be about one years old soon. she was probably around 8~9 months or so. I had personally hand raised her from a...
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    need help! chicken antifungal

    one of my chickens has spots on her comb that looks a lot like fungus. i could sort of scrape it off. i've had her on a antibiotic for a while but its not helping and the lumps are getting bigger and burrowing into the skin. i need an antifungal but i can't get nystatin since its prescription...
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    Patridge Silkie South California

    i would love to buy a good quality patridge hen especially blue patridge for pickup somewhere south california if anybody has some. if not even patridge chicks would be wonderful.
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    Silkie sexing...

    anybody know what this is yet? about 5 weeks old... ignore the wet looking dad he just got a bath i'm thinking cockerel because of the way he stands....
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    Silkies Laundry [Pic]

    They look like wet laundry...hahaaha.. sooo the weather is too hot and the silkies are panting and dirty... time for a mass silkie bath time! i just washed them one by one and lined them up as i did... and they just SAT there until they were dry. they are the funniest things. i washed the...
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    black australop.. supposed to be a pullet.. but..

    i have two 9 weeks black australops that i ordered from a hatchery.... however they differ in size and one has a redder comb than another. i was wondering if one of these was a cockerel oh yea the other is not a turken it was just horribly pecked by the others
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    random bunch of 9 week chickens for sale pick up only

    i have to downgrade my flock because of zoning issues. i had actually planned on building a bigger coop when i got these but i didn't get to and i never will now because of my legal fight. anyways because of the heat they have plucked the death out of each other....so they look like naked...
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    HELP I can't figure out who is who...

    I have 3 red 9 week pullets running around. 2 of them are red sex links and one is a rhode island red. i used to be able to tell them apart but now they got a lot older when i was away on a trip for 2 weeks. and they also got very stressed and pulled a lot of feathers out... but due to zoning...
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    My chickens look PLUCKeD!

    I dunno why but i came back from my trip to find that half of my young pullets looked PLUCKED! i'm assuming its stress from the heat it was 110 here recently and the overcrowding because they are getting too big for their coop. i was just about to sell them off too. I just want to make sure this...
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    My sleep in day ruined

    So i had to go on a trip for couple days and i just got back. I decided today would be my sleep in day to recover. oh course the chickens didn't have that in mind. My mom had been watching my chickens for me and she was complaining that they haven't laid eggs for couple days. So i'm trying to...
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    Coturnix affected by the weather?

    So my coturnix were laying beautifully one everyday until recently when it went up to almost 110 degrees in my neighborhood. now they aren't laying any more. is this due to the heat or is there some other reason and i'm blaming it on the heat? are chickens affected by the heat too?
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    pullets losing feathers?

    my pullets under their wing have bald spots like they were plucked what happened? are they sick?
  13. watersoflethe

    MITES MITES MITEs

    THEY ARE SO ANNOYING! how do i get rid of them... i use DE in my coops.. but the mights are going crazy less on the birds and more in the nesting boxes and such... everytime i pick up a egg mites all over my hand..gross.. please help me with this annoying pest
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    can one hen lay more than one egg a day?

    so i thought i had 3 coturnix hens. they recently started laying so for about 2 days now i've been having steady number of 3 eggs a day. i went out to the coop happily expecting 3 more eggs. ah there they are.. one .. two .. three.. four.. yey that's a lot.. wait what? 4? i only have 3 hens...
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    are button quail loud?

    i was thinking of getting some button quails. i saw them at a flea market and they were TINY and so cute. i was just wondering if they were loud? since i have coturnix and they tend to crow pretty loud as well. i got a noise complaint from the neighbors and i can't keep coturnix roos now. i was...
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    stabilizing temp in home made incubator HELP

    so i built myself one of those styrofoam incubators with a water heater thermostat. i have heat sinks in there as glass bottles of water.. but i can't get the temp to stabilize with a smaller range. the thing turns back on exactly at 95 and turns off exactly at 102 how can i get this range...
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    I'm not zoned for chickens! help UPDATE VARIANCE COST?! MORE CHARGES!!

    hello everyone. i just got a notice today saying that there was a complaint and i'm not zoned for chickens at all. before i got these babies i read through all the sections on animals in our municipal code in riverside county. i also made sure with my city as well. turns out the animals section...
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    what traits are a show quality silkie?

    i actually know nothing about silkies and is a new silkie owner and completely fell in love with them. i was just wondering out of pure curiousity what traits make a show quality silkie? personality i think my babies are cute no matter what quality they are... but i see all these silikies on BYC...
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    i want to make a dirt bath box...

    i'm thinking of making a little dirt bath box for my chickens with a cat litter box. do i put dirt or sand in there? which one is better. and if i put sand where can i get the play sand? can i add DE to the mix as well?
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    Silkie BATH TIME! = Angry Silkie (PICS)

    so i have a white silkie.... i dunno how everyone else on BYC keeps their white silkies so white.... because mine was starting to become yellow.. eww.. she was due for a silkie bath soon BUT when i got her she had just gotten pecked at by other hens so she had a wound on her head and due to the...
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