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- Mar 4, 2018
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The new white chicken is doing well. Her name is Tilda. I'm 90% sure it's a hen. I looked through her feathers the best I could when I found her and didn't find anything weird. No wounds. She just stank, and still kind of does! Her feathers are still a bit dirty too. She's pretty bad about dust bathing, or maybe it's because there is mulch in her run (it's the garden bed in my side yard). Or maybe that's just how white chickens are? Anyway, whatever the case, she is still a bit stinky and I noticed her feathers at the top of the wings were clumped. I caught her today for another good comb through, and found sticky yuckiness clumping her feathers together at the top of her wings. I sprayed it down with Vetericyn, not because it's a wound, but because I thought I'd find a wound and that's what I had with me. I also looked around her stinky vent. It looks mostly ok, just dirty feathers, and... LICE! So... this is my first lice experience. Luckily she is still in isolation.
Egg production seems to be slowing down ever so slightly. I'm getting a couple more 2 or 3 egg days rather than 4 egg days. They're too young to be molting this fall, so I think it's a combination of really hot, dry days, and the sun setting earlier. It's been in the high 80s - low 90s every day. I did a huge coop clean out today, including scraping down those dirty roost bars you see in this first picture. They're all nice and clean further down!
And some egg stats!
The new white chicken is doing well. Her name is Tilda. I'm 90% sure it's a hen. I looked through her feathers the best I could when I found her and didn't find anything weird. No wounds. She just stank, and still kind of does! Her feathers are still a bit dirty too. She's pretty bad about dust bathing, or maybe it's because there is mulch in her run (it's the garden bed in my side yard). Or maybe that's just how white chickens are? Anyway, whatever the case, she is still a bit stinky and I noticed her feathers at the top of the wings were clumped. I caught her today for another good comb through, and found sticky yuckiness clumping her feathers together at the top of her wings. I sprayed it down with Vetericyn, not because it's a wound, but because I thought I'd find a wound and that's what I had with me. I also looked around her stinky vent. It looks mostly ok, just dirty feathers, and... LICE! So... this is my first lice experience. Luckily she is still in isolation.
Egg production seems to be slowing down ever so slightly. I'm getting a couple more 2 or 3 egg days rather than 4 egg days. They're too young to be molting this fall, so I think it's a combination of really hot, dry days, and the sun setting earlier. It's been in the high 80s - low 90s every day. I did a huge coop clean out today, including scraping down those dirty roost bars you see in this first picture. They're all nice and clean further down!
And some egg stats!
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