Thursday, September 30, 2010

RE: [CHICKENS-101] dry brittle feathers

 



> I have a buff orpenter with dry brittle feathers that break when i pick
her up is this diet related????? She is also turning some white color on
certain feathers. she is only one year and a half.

probably starting to molt, the color usually gets lighter and they start
looking like crap, you can feed them a bit more protein to give some
nutritional support when they are going through a molt. Don't be alarmed
when you find a lot of feathers all over the place and when she stops
laying eggs. I give mine Diamond Naturals either the chicken and rice or
the beef and rice dog food to increase their protein intake and add some
other grains instead of the corn and soy. I soak it with water, in the
summer I give it just before they go to bed so they have their crop full of
food with lots of water to get them through the nights when it is hot. In
the winter I give it to them warm in the mornings.

Marlene
www.Anatolians-of-Zaltana.com
Blog: http://zaltanaanatolians.blogspot.com/ and
http://zaltanachickens.blogspot.com/
Nevada, USA

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[CHICKENS-101] Chic RoadKill [1 Attachment]

 
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Here's Roadkill (S)he's a Naked Neck (Yeah, I'm intelligent, when I
first posted a picture of Roadkill, I thought people were picking on me
by calling it "Naked Neck"). I was looking for Taffy Duct but she looks
like my Leghorns.

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RE: [CHICKENS-101] Position of nesting boxes in a coop

 

            One reason is to have an access door to the nest boxes and that is achieved easily if they are protruding.  The roof of the nest boxes can be hinged, whereas that would be much more difficult were they not protruding. Another is to leave as much sf available in the coop for the chickens.

 

Laura Roberts

R Half Pint Farm

Spotsylvania, VA 

 

From: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Laura Quick
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 12:59 PM
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Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Position of nesting boxes in a coop

 

 

Is there a good reason to have nesting boxes protruding from a coop?

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[CHICKENS-101] My First Egg!!!!

 

My little red hen, Rose, is the first of any of my chickens, ducks, or geese to give me an egg!!  I am so happy.

Judith
Canon City Colorado

What if you believe in reincarnation, so, when you die, instead of RIP on your gravestone it says BRB?

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[CHICKENS-101] dry brittle feathers

 

I have a buff orpenter with dry brittle feathers that break when i pick her up is this diet related????? She is also turning some white color on certain feathers. she is only one year and a half.
Thanks for any ideas.

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[CHICKENS-101] Re: Blue kote

 

no rooster and blue coat does not for this problem i think i need anitbotic at this point
thanks

--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, Anita Bingamon <anita@...> wrote:
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> Jamy, do you have a rooster that has a few favorites? One of my
> little hens had a sore that wouldn't heal, and I got the scab off it and
> found a deep infected slit. Took a couple of weeks to doctor her, but
> it got well from the inside out. You can try pine tar from the feed
> store. I imagine that doesn't taste too good.
>
> Anita B, offering her 2 cents' worth
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Re: [CHICKENS-101] chic road kill.

 

You can harass my wife but please leave my chickens alone :-)

On 9/30/2010 9:35 AM, Kevin Mulraney wrote:

 
Are you serious ! lol. They're butt ugly with those naked necks. S/he definately looks much cuter snuggled down!
But on the first picture of the chic ' roadkill' snuggled down did any of you spot the 'optical' illusion that the roadkill had a huge pointed beak!
I had to take a second glance to distinguish the real beak from the 'shadow' beak lol. What a cool picture. Jane & Co.

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Ray, what a great post! And I could not agree with you more. Those old forgotten laws can and will be used against you if someone has an axe to grind.

It has long been my opinion that city people are WAY out of touch with reality. I'm sure lots of you have seen that email that floats around every hunting season that shows an add in a news paper that says, "Shame on you hunters for killing the poor little animals, you should get your meat at the grocery store where no animals are harmed."

Now, if we could just get everybody to grow a back bone and stop going along to get along, and stand up to some of this garbage, mabe we could make a difference. A good start if your in Missouri is to VOTE NO on Prop. B :-)

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[CHICKENS-101] chic road kill.

 

Are you serious ! lol. They're butt ugly with those naked necks. S/he definately looks much cuter snuggled down!
But on the first picture of the chic ' roadkill' snuggled down did any of you spot the 'optical' illusion that the roadkill had a huge pointed beak!
I had to take a second glance to distinguish the real beak from the 'shadow' beak lol. What a cool picture. Jane & Co.

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Re: [CHICKENS-101] Chic RoadKill

 

OMG, that is adorable!!!
Gina :-) 

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