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    Breed ID...Welsummer?

    Yeah we had lows around -20F for about a week. Kept it as draft free and warm as possible 🤷‍♂️
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    Weird pecking order...

    For the record, getting a rooster resolved the pecking order issue. All is well now.
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    Breed ID...Welsummer?

    Thanks! Can't take credit for the door though, that was all the wife 😅 Thanks for the ID. The tail being darker threw me off but I guess all the pics I see they do have dark tails. Comments on temperament? Have heard rhode Island roosters can be mean.
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    Breed ID...Welsummer?

    Got a rooster this year. It was free from a buddy and very well could be a mut but trying to identify what it could be, or a mix. Thoughts? I'm thinking welsummer?
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    Weird pecking order...

    That's a good suggestion. I'll give that a try. Thanks!
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    Weird pecking order...

    I have considered rehoming. The dilema is Pidgey is our favorite chicken, but 6.5 years old. The bully is a little over a year and in her prime laying years. Pidgey is an easter egger. The bully is an olive egger. Both are much smaller than my rhode island red and barred rock. I bought...
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    Weird pecking order...

    Do I need to just let this timid phase play out? Or is she a mentally broken chicken?
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    Weird pecking order...

    Nearly a month in the most recent attempt. I have it setup such that they can see each other through chicken wire, but not physically interact. And a few times I would let them mingle for 15-30 minutes under supervision before separating the bully again.
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    Weird pecking order...

    I have been dealing with a chicken that seems to have major anxiety regarding pecking order establishment. Pidgey was being bullied by another chicken fairly severely. I isolated the bully and left Pidgey with the rest of the flock (four other chickens). I would intermittently mix the bully back...
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    Chicken self isolating??

    She feels pretty normal. I let her free range alone and set food and water out. She ate and drank and seemed to be getting on just fine. Then put herself away like normal at dusk. There have been a few feathers around, a couple longer ones. Her tail is looking pretty thin. I'll see how she's...
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    Chicken self isolating??

    I haven't been able to identify her poop specifically. My wife did say someone is pooping very black poop though. She hasn't laid an egg for a few weeks. She got egg bound in the spring and was able to work it out and hasn't laid eggs regularly since then. She's not acting like she did when...
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    Chicken self isolating??

    One of our chickens (6 year old easter egger) is behaving strangely. She has always been a more mild mannered chicken and kept to herself but recently she has seemingly been self isolating herself. All the chickens go out into the run during the day and she'll just sit in the coop all alone and...
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    Caught my chicken red handed, eating an egg!

    I resolved my hen's egg eating by locking her in the coop alone for 24 hrs with a ceramic egg. She pecked her brains out until she got bored. Hasn't eaten an egg since.
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    Chicken not eating even after passing bound egg

    We had a chicken (6 year old named Pidgey) we discovered was egg bound yesterday evening. We isolated her from the flock, soaked her in water, and got her situated for the night. When I checked on her in the morning she had laid an egg and was moving around again, but very gingerly. Her rear end...
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