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[RedBugPoultry]

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Pink, that looks more like he was fussing through a fence or a hen set him to rights. It doesn't look like pox to me. However, I am not an expert on it since mine had it once several....I think 5....years ago.

Pink, I am with Amy on this one. I will try to take pictures of my two boys, but I think yours has had a scuffle with someone. Mine have sores all over their combs and wattles.

 

[pinkwindsong]

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Pink, that looks more like he was fussing through a fence or a hen set him to rights. It doesn't look like pox to me. However, I am not an expert on it since mine had it once several....I think 5....years ago.

Pink, I am with Amy on this one. I will try to take pictures of my two boys, but I think yours has had a scuffle with someone. Mine have sores all over their combs and wattles.

ok good. yeah no sore just spot. no wet spot at all.. so thats good.. thanks ya'll
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[Blueberry Hill]

Jackie B. :

So to go along with my bear buddy, I now have a pack of coyotes running around PAris Mtn. Got home late last night and could hear them running on the other side of the fence. Good GAWD what an awful noise they make! Sounds like little creepy chicldren screaming. And of course, this happens when I'm home alone.

I do reckon' it is time for a firearm.

And yes, I found all 3 guineas. That are now barricaded in the XL dog crate. Geeze.

yes, they were howling right outside our bedroom window last night. Drove our dogs crazy​

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Hopefully these pictures are good enough you can see the pox sores. The silkie was not in very good light.
Can you see around the Polish's nose and on the bottom of his wattle? His sores are still yellow and have not all opened as of yet! Some started to turn black today. He is such a pretty boy....

This is our Cuckoo Silkie, yes, he does have a pretty red comb and wattle but my daughter loves this bird. If you look on the tips of the comb and the edge of the wattles you can see very littl black, dried up, sores. His did not get as big as the polish's sores -- at least I assume as I did not even notice them until they were over and the polish broke out! My daughter carries this bird around all the time too!

I am still letting things take their course, but these are the only 2 so far. Maybe we will be lucky....

I live in the thought that things happen for a reason, though we never know exactly what that reason is~ for now it is keeping some polish around the house

 

[emptynester]

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Pink, that looks more like he was fussing through a fence or a hen set him to rights. It doesn't look like pox to me. However, I am not an expert on it since mine had it once several....I think 5....years ago.

I agree with Amy, it doesnt look like pox. You can do a search here on BYC and find pictures I think

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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yes, they were howling right outside our bedroom window last night. Drove our dogs crazy

I feel for all of you with coyotes around your house! I worry they will figure out what a easy meal they would have here every night! We have not even seen any deer this year the coyotes are so bad! We usually have deer coming into the back field to eat and have not seen any this last few month. But the wild turkey are thick--and probably have Pox!!

 

[pinkwindsong]

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oh my goodness poor guy.. looks terrible.. did I read that at this point it is healing though? i hope so, for him and you..


nope I dotn have that//

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Pink

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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oh my goodness poor guy.. looks terrible.. did I read that at this point it is healing though? i hope so, for him and you..


nope I dotn have that//

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Pink

Yes, I think it is starting to heal and he seems to be doing ok other than he hates being in a pen!

 

[Moonchild]

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Your website is too cute! I love it!

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dixiebeast]

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I will give you my 2 cents worth on this. Others may not agree but I have found it to work for me when I have the very rare egg eater. And believe me, with as many birds as I have this method has worked well for me in the past years.
Up the protein. It is a myth that they only eat their eggs because of low calcium intake. (One reason I could not continue classes at college. Scientific proof meant nothing to them!

) Most chickens rarely eat their own eggs for calcium. They just take it from other sources in their body, depleting those sources and eventually failing in health.
Put out oyster shell and see if that helps.

Countless times people ask me why their chickens continue to bust the eggs and eat them even with oyster shell available and layer as the main diet. Have you seen the amount of protein they put in layer? It is pitiful!
A chicken that is able to run loose on an acre or more with vegetation and bugs is getting way, way, way more protein from plant and animal matter!
Black oil sunflower seed has about 33% protein. Have you all seen how much they gobble that up? My chickens free range and still consume massive amounts of that seed.

Go buy a can of cheap tuna or mackerel or anything in the meat dept where the protein is higher than laying mash. Canned cat food is a favorite and even some dry cat food can have high amounts of protein but I hesitate to feed anything with added salt and commercial foods are very high in salt. Ever wonder why dogs and cats go into kidney failure around 8-10 years old? Dogs with congestive heart failure and Cushings disease, I blame on commercial feed. But I digress......

If you ever read my words as I drone on about chickens, you will know I say that I feed a lot of chick starter to my grown birds. Higher protein. But I also feed as much BOSS as I can and anything else that has high protein. Last winter I even bought a few bags of that floating Koi food to mix in with the layer and starter mash. It was high protein and cheaper than BOSS.
And now I grow meal worms.

If you have enough extra eggs then hard boil them and feed them back, shell and all (no use making too much work for yourself). The protein from the yolk is what those birds are really after.

If they are actually eating an egg that is not already cracked or broken then you have a problem.
If they are seeing a crack in an egg and going after it then it is natural. They know they must remove a "bad" egg or it will attract
predators.

I hope I have helped you and this will solve any problems.

Two thoughts:

Remind me what BOSS is?

And, sometimes, a hen will sit on a nest for a while and just not lay anything. I have watched some of my newer layers sit for quite a while and check as soon as they leave the nest and there is no egg.

Unfortunatly I have witnessed the egg eating and the attempt the next day....no eggs today but who knows if one was laid for sure?