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duluthralphie said:
I am not sure what is wrong, but I have one that is kind of like that. I have found feeding her high protein has helped. I know she was sick earlier.

I would try the "show bird conditioner" from fleet farm a ton of vitamins and minerals in 24% protein. It is too expensive to feed this only. I would also get a bag of 32% calf conditioner "Calf Manna" It is around $14.

I feed this with a couple tablespoons full of the conditioner. BTW this same concoction will speed up the re-feathering after a molt.
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Thanks Ralphie. I will look into both of those. I have increased their protein dramatically for their molts and spoil this little girl dramatically with meal worms and chix feed (higher protein) and scrambled eggs.
 
Good Morning Chickeners . . . . Up to the north country this morning. I hear it is at 100% color in Aitkin. Woot! Woot! The building is going up in November. Yea! Found an entity that the DH trusts and is comfortable with. Moving forward toward living up there. EVEN the DH is coming on board with the idea.
 
I have decided chickens are not as stupid as I want them to be. I went to the cabinet to get the "fake burgers" for Cuddles and his bunch. Cuddles started that "I found food" song and dance. I gave them a small treat of the burger and mixed the rest of the package into a bowl with some high protein feather fixing junk I bought that they hate the taste of. Cuddles and his girls managed to pick out the burger without taking one piece of the feather making stuff....

Weinerhead saw me go to the cabinet also and bring Cuddles his burger. He went nuts. He demanded his. I tried to sneak him a little and the rest the birds protested wanting theirs. I ended up going through 3 packages of burger.

I did use one package well though. I made Knucklehead and Knothead eat their burger with my hand a half inch from the burger. They were forced to be close to me. I am going to have them eating out of my hands by the show.

I did the same thing on the Dom Roosters. I never have trouble taming hens but roosters are a pain in the rear.
 
duluthralphie said:
I have decided chickens are not as stupid as I want them to be. I went to the cabinet to get the "fake burgers" for Cuddles and his bunch. Cuddles started that "I found food" song and dance. I gave them a small treat of the burger and mixed the rest of the package into a bowl with some high protein feather fixing junk I bought that they hate the taste of. Cuddles and his girls managed to pick out the burger without taking one piece of the feather making stuff....

Weinerhead saw me go to the cabinet also and bring Cuddles his burger. He went nuts. He demanded his. I tried to sneak him a little and the rest the birds protested wanting theirs. I ended up going through 3 packages of burger.

I did use one package well though. I made Knucklehead and Knothead eat their burger with my hand a half inch from the burger. They were forced to be close to me. I am going to have them eating out of my hands by the show.

I did the same thing on the Dom Roosters. I never have trouble taming hens but roosters are a pain in the rear.
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If you want tamer roosters, keep children around to mess with the chicks. I make the kids back off around puberty, but we still catch them up any time one looks more forward with me than I'd like and give him a good, embarrassing snuggle, with lots of cooing and loving. Keeps em in line without threatening, and they learn that the more they struggle, the longer I'mma gonna hold them.
Hahaha!
 

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