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Thanks! It's a relief to hear they are not parasites. I thought I had heard of little red wood mites before but couldn't remember for sure.

There is not. Personally I feed treats. But my position is that if people only offered what is available for commercial feed and did not purposefully offer treats it would not result in a bird of that condition. Nothing i have posted contradicts that. That body condition is not caused by not...

Not any scientific peer reviewed evidence, no. But do you have any evidence that feeding a bird nothing but a commercial diet while not overcrowding and putting stress on the reproductive system by keeping them under lights to maximize egg production will have the same results? Your argument...

Ah, but that is not really what the original post says. The original post states that feeding a balanced commercial diet with no treats will deliver a hen with a body condition like a spent battery hen. None of the people here who recommend feeding only a balanced diet with no treats are going...

It absolutely does not. Having a complete and balanced diet is not what is causing that condition. If battery hens got treats they would  still look like that. They would look like that no matter what they ate. The condition of that hen is not due solely to diet. This is an accurate statement...

OK, but this is akin to posting a picture of an overbred puppy mill bitch and claiming that's the result of feeding only a complete and balanced kibble and no treats. Firstly, battery hens' conditions are as much a product of environment and flock management, independent of diet. Secondly...

Cockerel. I wouldn't expect a comb that red on a pullet unless she was laying already. I can't make out the saddle or neck feathers enough to tell if they're pointy, but the feathering looks very male to me.

Found these tiny red mites on some lumber that had been sitting in my driveway. Are they a potential danger for my chickens?

Oh they are cute, I love them! Not seeing anything that says male to me.

Waiting out a thunderstorm with the chickens this morning. They seem to be settling into the new coop beautifully.

Moved the girls out to their coop this afternoon! Next up, the run. And the wyandotte finally has a name! Meet Marcille!

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Spent the day attaching the hardware cloth to the coop. Now it just needs a door and a ceiling and we should be able to move the girls in this weekend! I might get the ceiling up tomorrow. Depends on how much I'm feeling today.

Oops, I just realized the link I posted was for Poultry Show Central, not the Missouri State Poultry Association. Sorry! I'm sure if you look through the show links you can still find contact information for someone who will know the definitive answer. If true, my guess is it's a well...

That doesn't sound right, but I don't show nor do I live in Missouri. I didn't see anything regarding spurs one way or the other on the Missouri State Poultry Association website, but I'm sure they can put you in contact with someone who does. At the very least they have a calendar of shows, you...

Welcome! From what I can see in the background of your picture it's a beautiful coop! And the chicken is beautiful too.

Your rooster has a single comb (incorrect for the breed, but hes very handsome anyway and if you'renot breeding to the standard it really doesn't matter), so the only hen who could possibly be the mother is the wyandotte. Any of the other hens with that rooster would produce 100% single combed...

Blue has a big comb, but no obvious cockerels so far

Husband got the walls up on the coop tonight! Tomorrow I'm going to start putting up the hardware cloth. Fingers crossed we can move the girls out of the basement this weekend! Enjoy this fun but unphotogenic picture of Lady Amalthea

Got some pictures in direct sunlight.