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fisherlady said:
Some of our hens also get this type of feather damage from the rooster. Sometimes other flock members will pick at the damaged area also. I place saddles on to provide protection for their backs and will spray any exposed areas with blu-kot to reduce the amount of attention from the other birds.
Your saddle should help immensely!
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We are planning on trimming the roosters nails to help prevent the wing damage. Blu-Kot- Something I could get at tractor Supply?
fisherlady said:
Protein treat options... scrambled eggs, meal worms (fresh or freeze dried), yogurt, boiled fish, crumbled cat food, canned tuna, chopped up chicken, cooked and chopped up liver, peanuts, hulled sunflower seeds.
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Our chickens dont like treats usually. I will try though. I know meal worms- or any kind of worms they just dont know what to do with it! Now give them a mole rat and its a different story! lol
 
kada6305 said:
chippysmom327 said:
IMO separating her at night won't really do any good. I think the saddle should be good. Bump up protein so she can regrow feathers quicker.
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the protein is 16% layer feed. What can I add to increase protein? Was thinking maybe scrambling some eggs to give them all as treats buy mainly focusing on her. Anything else I can do?
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I use Dumor chick crumbles because I have guinea keets with my broody that require high protein. That feed is 24% protein. If you give them that and make sure they have access to oyster shell/recycled crushed eggshells they shouldn't have issues.
 
chippysmom327 said:
I use Dumor chick crumbles because I have guinea keets with my broody that require high protein. That feed is 24% protein. If you give them that and make sure they have access to oyster shell/recycled crushed eggshells they shouldn't have issues.
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We are using Dumor layer crumbles, I'll have to pick up some chick crumbles, it wont hurt the other chickens or Ducks having the higher protein? They all share the food. We currently house them all together.
 
kada6305 said:
chippysmom327 said:
I use Dumor chick crumbles because I have guinea keets with my broody that require high protein. That feed is 24% protein. If you give them that and make sure they have access to oyster shell/recycled crushed eggshells they shouldn't have issues.
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We are using Dumor layer crumbles, I'll have to pick up some chick crumbles, it wont hurt the other chickens or Ducks having the higher protein? They all share the food. We currently house them all together.
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No, it won't hurt them. My birds tend to sneeze and cough on the crumbles, but when I wet them down the problem goes away. Fermenting is also a good option.
 
kada6305 said:
We are planning on trimming the roosters nails to help prevent the wing damage. Blu-Kot- Something I could get at tractor Supply?
Our chickens dont like treats usually. I will try though. I know meal worms- or any kind of worms they just dont know what to do with it! Now give them a mole rat and its a different story! lol
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Blu-kot is a topical spray for minor skin wounds which has blue dye in it to deter the interest of other birds to prevent picking. I use it just as a deterent many times. Tractor Supply does carry it, most feed stores will have it.
 
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fisherlady said:
Blu-kot is a topical spray for minor skin wounds which has blue dye in it to deter the interest of other birds to prevent picking. I use it just as a deterent many times. Tractor Supply does carry it, most feed stores will have it.
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To add my two cents...don't get the aresol type if you can avoid it....there is always some over spray and it ends up on you/ the floor, the wallls etc....(yep, I have the tea-shirt)
 
Blarneyeggs said:
Hey there stranger!!! We've missed you! My kids are now at your 4H club, I was hoping to see you at some point....just finished up fair week, phew!

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Hey Blarney! Ugh I know, I would've dropped in but I was on vacation over the fair date :'( which really stinks because my old man wanted to pick up some egg to egg pullets and I miss you guys....oh well...I'll try and catch you guys next year

fisherlady said:
Hey there!! Glad to see you stopping in... hope things have calmed down for you.
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Hi! Yeah I hope it did, gosh so much has been going on! I did pick up a lot of new dog kennel fencing, and my carpenter friend is going to give me a hand building a couple coops :) so everyone will be more situated shortly
 
Does anyone have any interest in a kitten? Probably 4 Months old or so? I caught him dosing traffic at a shopping center (got bit pretty good too since he was so scared). I tried to take him to the humane society and they aren't accepting any cats. The local animal rescue is full too. He's very sweet and LOVES human attention but is very jumpy. I tried to bring him in and he just came to life seeing our cat but Monro was NOT happy and did nothing but hiss and growl at him. So the poor thing is stuck in a crate in the garage :( if anyone wants him, please let me know. Until then, I guess I'll just keep trying to introduce those two and get them to get along lol
 

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