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How's the roo doing? Is he still around? Did you get a picture of his healed feet?

Chickens usually know when to move out of the heat, don't they? You could probably stick a thermometer near the chicks to check and see. They do also spread out when they find a nice warm sunbeam, so they might just be enjoying themselves. Are they drinking enough water?

Wait, rumpless? That's a thing? Chickens can actually be born without butts? How does that work?

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Whoa! Those are some gnarly toes...If they're going to fall off like that, I wonder if it's the best idea to let him live? I mean, he's going to need to walk around somehow, and he's bound to get feces and other bacteria in the open parts.

Definitely separate him from the rest of the flock until you know what's going on with him. If you keep him in a dog crate or a separate pen, you'll be able to watch him more closely.

I recently culled a sick hen, and I found some pretty odd stuff going on in her intestines. She was a mutt of some kind, (she looked more like a small buff orpington) about two years old, and I don't think she'd been laying for a while. The past few weeks I'd noticed that she also hadn't been...

A word of warning: I decided to try the broomstick method on one of my sick hens and it did not go well at all. The head didn't pop off, though I sort of wish it would have. Her neck was definitely broken and she lay still for a few seconds, then started blinking and squawking just like a...

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I've been nosing around the internet, searching for humane ways to cull my birds. It's a good thing to know how to do by yourself, because you never know when there might be an emergency or some other situation that requires you dispatch your chicken quickly and calmly. I've recently found this...

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This was one of my roos, Trinculo. We hatched him and his sisters from eggs from my neighbor, so he was a mutt. I've always been curious what breeds of chicken he had in him. Any ideas? This is actually a picture from the day we culled him because there were too many roosters in the flock. I...

That has got to be the cutest little thing I've ever laid eyes on!

What are these chicks thinking?

Everyone says I look like my sister. I think that's absolutely ridiculous; she looks nothing like me!

What a beautiful flock! :)

I remember when I got my first fuzzybutts. I was so excited! I remember sitting out in the garage next to the brooder for hours at a time, singing to them, snuggling them, reading to them, or even just watching them play (and poop all over EVERYTHING. But it was cute poop, so it's ok. ). I...