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Hatching
- Aug 9, 2015
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Help! I was given six chochin silkie mixes a couple days ago because the lady said they were pulling out each others feathers. I know the conditions at her flock are bad because she only worries about breeding and selling frizzles. I thought it was going to be an over crowding\ nutrition issue (an easy fix) but after a couple days of watching them in quarantine I am more concerned. They are not defeathering each other from what I see but they all have some degree of bald neck, head, back, chest with yellow peeling skin. I was told they were three months but they look closer to a month to me. I have bathed, dusted with DE, electrolyted and they are now on a high quality chick start for extra protien. No sign of lice or mites. This is a picture of the worst of them
[/IMG] as you can see the eyelids are swollen too. I see no feather pulling other than normal preening and no visible feathers coming in.
If any one knows what this is please help! I have scoured the Internet looking for something similar but I am still at a loss. The only thing I have found that makes me so uneasy is the cutaneous form of Mareks that I was not aware of. No neurological symtoms though and eating, drinking, pooping fine.
If any one knows what this is please help! I have scoured the Internet looking for something similar but I am still at a loss. The only thing I have found that makes me so uneasy is the cutaneous form of Mareks that I was not aware of. No neurological symtoms though and eating, drinking, pooping fine.
