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    Bird mites in my house 😩

    They did! Lots of vacuuming, laundry washing and painting DE on the walls later, but we stopped seeing live ones at about the 2 week mark.
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    Limping chicken

    I'm so sorry to hear that! 😩😔 Were you able to determine if it was something linked to the limping?
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    Limping chicken

    Curious if you are around and have an update! I have a hen that just started limping this morning and foot/leg looks fine.
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    Name that chicken contest month by month 2024 july - Ends July 29th. 2024

    Marigold
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    Name that chicken contest month by month 2024 july - Ends July 29th. 2024

    Sunny
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    Bird mites in my house 😩

    I got lucky and he crawled into an upturned end table that had a bit of a lip (basically became a shallow box with legs!) carried the whole thing outside 😆 we live in an area that gets a lot of snakes and rat snakes I'll typically leave be unless they're trying to get at chickens. We get a lot...
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    Bird mites in my house 😩

    Absolutely agree with you and it took this situation to make me realize it! We've had nests at the front of our house off and on for many years, but I do not want to go through this again or worse - have to battle them with the chickens. We will look into ways to keep them from nesting. I think...
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    Sapphire Gem thread!!!!

    Just found this thread! New to sapphire gems, but currently have 4 chicks aged about 9 weeks. I enjoy seeing all the pictures! Mine already have four very different personalities! 😅 One thinks I'm her dust bath and immediately climbs into my lap to do that when she's allowed to. I do have one...
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    Bird mites in my house 😩

    Thank you all!! It's been wild so I failed to check in, but things are thankfully looking better and better each day. I haven't resorted to spraying or bombing but it's good to know what to look for if we start to see bigger numbers again. So far it's just been a lot of vacuuming, spraying...
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    Bird mites in my house 😩

    I hadn't seen this mentioned in my research! Not sure that's going to be feasible. It's already hot here and hearing a bedroom or elsewhere in the house would be pretty difficult for us to survive. 😅 right now the mites are still mostly around one window in one room. There's not a million, but...
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    Bird mites in my house 😩

    Thanks to a nest of baby birds above the window, my son's bedroom is having a bit of a mite infestation that might be moving to other rooms. Tricky part is that I currently have chicks in my basement in an open (hardware cloth sided) brooder (as well as one very patient hen outdoors waiting for...
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    Juvenile hen’s face inflates when breathing

    That's reassuring to know!! I wondered if maybe it was just a facial structure thing at all with some. Mine acts and breathes perfectly normal otherwise!
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    Juvenile hen’s face inflates when breathing

    Curious if you treated or if this is still happening! I have an 8 week old chick that I just noticed this happening with. No other signs of distress and no other chick seems to have the same thing going on (there's 6 of them.) They are currently indoors in a large brooder with pine shavings and...
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    Best first dust bath?

    Thank you for responses! I do have Corid on hand!
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    Best first dust bath?

    So, I'm late to providing a dust bath situation for my 7-8 week old chicks (they are in pine shavings and often take dust baths in those.) They haven't been exposed outdoors as we're working on our run and coop. I've never fed them medicated starter feed. Is it best to introduce some top soil...
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    Hen Solo (all jokes aside, question about a solo hen.)

    This actually isn't a terrible idea at all! Right now space is limited in the basement but if I could rearrange some things, it might be what we do as we get things finished outdoors (there will be times when it's easier to have no chickens out there and they could spend some time like this when...
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    Hen Solo (all jokes aside, question about a solo hen.)

    I'm sorry it's been a struggle! I feel like we're probably going to encounter some of the same issues and I'm trying to be sure our renovated coop and run have plenty of room to section everyone off for a while because I'm sure it'll take some time. I did read elsewhere that a lot of times, the...
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    Hen Solo (all jokes aside, question about a solo hen.)

    Sorry I haven't kept up with this thread very well!! My hen that passed was already showing signs of something going on before I introduced the new hen (less appetite and energy, occasional lethargy and hadn't resumed egg laying in the spring.) I didn't officially quarantine the young hen, but...
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    Sapphire gem? Hen or roo?

    So freaking cute! Definitely pullet on the third in my opinion. I'm still not convinced pullet for mine, but I go back and forth! That chick is just built different than my other SG's and I'm still suspicious!
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    Hen Solo (all jokes aside, question about a solo hen.)

    This might be what we do for a time! Of course after I posted my last update we had two big rat snakes working their way into our (obviously not secure) run this evening. New run is all hardware cloth and will be very secure. We have a section of it up, but need to get the rest up and a roof...
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