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Another fox terrorizing my chickens. This is the second one with mange and it was worse than the other. I felt bad for him. Just sad all around no chance he was able to keep warm at night.
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Something is up with this stag that I think is diet related. He should be black-breasted red duckwing and overall pretty close to wild-type. He’s been given free-choice access to blocks of wild bird seed. He also gets same amount of a complete 20% crude protein feed in the form of pellets and occasional fruit and greens. He is not coloring up nor molting into mature hackle feathers. He looks almost hennie feathered.

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centrarchid said:
Something is up with this stag that I think is diet related. He should be black-breasted red duckwing and overall pretty close to wild-type. He’s been given free-choice access to blocks of wild bird seed. He also gets same amount of a complete 20% crude protein feed in the form of pellets and occasional fruit and greens. He is not coloring up nor molting into mature hackle feathers. He looks almost hennie feathered.

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That is kinda strange. How old is he? I’ve had some that were slower to feather out before but it’s been kinda rare.
I do have one stag from this year with leg problems 1 out of I think 22 hen hatched eggs. I would expect some issues here and there out of an incubator but not from a hen. 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
roosterhavoc said:
That is kinda strange. How old is he? I’ve had some that were slower to feather out before but it’s been kinda rare.
I do have one stag from this year with leg problems 1 out of I think 22 hen hatched eggs. I would expect some issues here and there out of an incubator but not from a hen. 🤷🏼‍♂️
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He is a mid June hatch. I think I have seen it before with cocks where they look Hennie during the summer. The stag in this case has poor feathering from being kept to tight at night on an extended road trip to Montana. I wander if one of the grains in the wild bird mix has a lot of estrogen like chemicals in it.
 

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