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For those who are looking through this thread for answers later... Billy is walking, she even jumped up to perch tonight. It was about a week of extra care. Making sure she had access to food and water since she wasn't walking well. I also started giving her sesame seeds because I read they...

I also found this site. Maybe someone else posted it and I missed it but it has tons of information about chicken leg and foot care. https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry#fixing_chicken_toes

I am not convinced it was a vitamin deficiency unless it is caused by some genetic abnormality that didn't allow her to absorb riboflavin correctly. She had a good chick feed from my local grange and she had water with an electrolyte/ vitamin additive that had a good amount of ribolflavin in...

I am glad to hear your chicks are recovering. My chick is walking a little more upright tonight but her balled up toes seem to be the main problem now. I just tried to put shoes on, but her feet are so big it is hard to get all the toes on a band aid and she and her brood mates started picking...

How are you getting the riboflavin/ vitamins into them?

I have a welsummer chick (3.5 weeks) that is doing this as well. I got on here to look for answers. My chicks have only been in their box since I got them. I have five others (1 other welsummer) and all the others are fine so far. I have been giving them water with chick boost in it every...

I don't have any advice, I am new to this, but I am having a similar problem and I'm trying to figure out pecking, molting, or self mutilation. Now your post has me worried. The funny thing is that my two that have feathers missing and a little blood in the same place you mentioned are two of...

My chickens are 8 months old. Could they be molting? I have never been through it so i don't know what it looks like. It is 5 degrees tonight, what evolutionary craziness would make them molt now? (I have a heat bulb on out there, but its still cold.) Also, the two with feathers missing on...

Its interesting because some of my chickens just started getting bald patches right as it started getting cold. I was putting a heat lamp on in the coop for the cold so i thought it was the light at night, even though it was red. Its so hard to see that bare plucked skin exposed in the cold so...

She is as interested in food as the rest, I'm not sure about actual quantity. All the bald patch ones are acting completely normal, and all the ones with bald patches are top or middle of the food chain i think. They really do not squabble much so it is a subtle thing, the two i perceive as...

About two weeks ago I noticed that one of my BO hens had a bald spot on her rump, it was about the size of an egg funnily enough, but lower than her vent. I felt it and it felt a little like there might be an egg behind it. She wasn't acting bothered by it so I decided to watch it. No one...

I just got back to my computer and read all the great responses from you all. Thanks. I read the perma guard website and I am learning more about DE than i ever thought I would, all for the sake of my chickens. I have used the hardware store DE on my dogs a lot and never questioned it- too...

I have a technical question about DE. I know that pool DE is different and toxic. What I'm wondering is what the difference is between the stuff you buy at the hardware store to put around your house and "food grade" DE? I am having no luck finding food grade DE locally and before I spend a...

I don't have an answer. I have a thread going that is telling me that my chickens might just be beginning a mite breakout. I was going to dust them with sevin this evening so i'm interested in your answer, but I'm wondering- what did you see when you say you found mites? what do they look like?

Ok, so I'm taking a guess about where to post this. My question is about food grade DE. I have looked through this site and on the internet in general and there is still something I don't get. I understand that the DE for pools is a no no. I understand that you want food grade DE and I've...

If anyone is still reading this I am wondering if i can introduce DE (again a source for food grade DE would be most helpful)and use the sevin powder at the same time?

Thanks for all the advice. I am thinking mites or lice and will do the DE first, but the reason I haven't been doing it already is because I can't find anyplace that sells food grade DE. I also see a few of my other chickens have a little "dandruff" on their heads, maybe mites also,but they...

So, 1)she is an EE, 6 months (21 weeks), but not laying yet- but neither are any of the other nine I got at the same time, I have no idea how much she weighs, but shes not overly fat or skinny. 2)she flicks her head over and over again. When I picked her up she stopped, but started again when I...

I have 10 chickens. 1 of them is shaking her head almost continuosly for the last few days- getting more noticable in the last day. I don't know if its any worse than it was a few days ago, but I'm noticing it more. The shake is like a twitch. It is one 'pop' (a quick flick) and a little bit...

This is partially a bump to the evening crowd. Also, to pose the question that IF these are all girls- Is it common for one to develop stronger traits among hens. Of my five breeds three of them have a more developed one and a less developed one. I have two EE and two BRs and they are...