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  1. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Two more recruits for the frat house! Mr 4lbs-at-12-weeks Kang on the left clearly remembers Speedy and Smoke from their overlapping time in the house in different brooder setups, since I let them visit each others' rooms sometimes.
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    Chicken etiquette?

    Did I read correctly that they are 4 months old right now? If so…give them time. Many pullets who later become snuggle bugs go through a “no don’t touch me” phase that lasts a while, and the age is about right for that. Some birds also never like being touched certain places or being grabbed /...
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    Mange

    Since other mammals aren't an issue and you have the bees to consider, then permethrin wouldn't be worth the risk to the hive - the powdered form especially. I've seen some limited evidence that bees and other flying insects can smell the liquid version from a distance and avoid it while it's...
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    Mange

    I don't think the type of mange that affects foxes/dogs/cats/etc. can jump to chickens or other birds; the mite species affecting birds are different. Other mammals would be at risk though, and rodents may have already gotten to the carcass and have become a vector. So if you have dogs/cats they...
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    Broody not into eggs but broods everything else

    If she quits early that's totally fine; I've got my brooder setup ready to go. If it seems like it would go well if she stays, it would certainly be nice to avoid having a 200W heat lamp in my home office in the middle of July lol. I just don't want to put the chicks in a riskier-than-necessary...
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    Broody not into eggs but broods everything else

    I've got a broody cochin who started her broodiness at just the right time to line up with some mail-order chicks I have arriving, and she's been impossible to disuade from brooding so far (my ability to separate her is limited at the moment). She has also been inclined to brood the following...
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    Cockerel for certain?

    Saddle and hackle feathers coming in now for Speedy! There's a little patch of brand new shiney ones visible in the middle of his back in the pic below. Double-barring aside, the appearance of those feathers is welcome reassurance of his male-ness, because Speedy also started squatting for...
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    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    Soooooo....these two birds are still having issues, and worms are still in the mix. Treating as per my last post initially seemed successful based on poo inspections. Also for a few weeks following the first treatment, both Raven and Hobbit showed a noticable surge in new pin feather...
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    Growing my little flock

    That awkward moment when you go to make sure the broody didn't steal any eggs and have to extract a 2lb pullet instead (note the gray mottled feathers poking out under her chest...)
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    Growing my little flock

    So I think I do indeed have 5 duds in the incubator. 😞 That is the outcome I was expecting, but still a bummer. Hopefully a peeping box in 2 more weeks will make it into less of a bummer. Meanwhile I have no way to easily un-broody the maniac below between the way the weather has been and the...
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    Not a dot, not a bullseye...?

    To follow up on this, I have five of the original hen-in-question's eggs in the incubator right now. I had seen shapes that were definitely trending towards the bullseye category prior to setting. No more thetas, but the edges of the bullseyes I started seeing still had irregularities to the...
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    Foul smell from new chicks?

    I just use pine shavings of various types. If dust minimization is a priority (like if the brooder is in the house), I've found Impeckables Poultry Bedding to be the the king of being dust-free among the various shavings brands I've tried - but it is definitely pricey per volume. Other large...
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    Foul smell from new chicks?

    If they're pushing feed around and it's getting wet, that could totally make stinky feathers. Doesn't look wet in the photo though...and it looks like they're pushing it away from the water rather than towards it. The Jersey giants would've been my guess for causing the smell, but since you've...
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    Foul smell from new chicks?

    What breed are the chicks? Got pictures of them and the setup they're in? Are they eating and growing well? If there's something that's causing them to prefer to lie in soiled areas, then that would make for stinky chicks for sure. Lying on wet shavings can be enough to transfer that ammonia...
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    Growing my little flock

    Noooooo you said the B-word! LOL One of my cochins must have looked over my sholder and and found your post to be inspirational since I now have another nest box troll screaming at me when I go to collect eggs. It would actually be rather well lined up with my mail order chicks...but the whole...
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    can chickens love people?

    This is something I have been wondering about lately...perhaps a bit tangential to the "love" issue, but not entirely. My birds also come to me when they have a health issue, whether trivial or serious, and they all get more snuggly afterwards. I have one hen in particular who has recurring...
  17. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    With the house chicken count back to zero, I put a bunch of Coco Bean eggs in the incubator...I suppose I'm basically doing this so that I can be sorely disappointed in a couple weeks lol. Bean flock fertility overall is definitely improving slowly as the cochins are gradually laying bigger...
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    Growing my little flock

    ...all. Scruffy seems to recognize them, the roosters are happy for new arrivals, and the other hens don't seem to care much. This batch so far I *think* is actually 50/50 for cockerels/pullets. Smoke is a very dark barred cockerel. Can't see him...he is one with the shaddows in that...
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    Electrical issue in coops and run.

    So it sounds like you have... House --> extension cord --> Outlet1 --> wires --> Ouetlet2 --> .... Is that right? If so and things on first outlet are ok but after that not, if the wires between outlets are hidden then I would really worry something inside the wall has been chewed, which is...
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    Cockerel for certain?

    Speedy's paternal grandparents: barred rock rooster & buff orpingtong hen. I don't know the purebreddedness or lack thereof for the rooster. My buff orpington hens are all hatchery stock buffs. Speedy's father: one of two BRxBO crosses from the above, both of which exhibit a some limited...
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