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    Hello everyone!

    derpy!! haha!! welcome!
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    swollen crop

    Good to know....I was expecting something big to happen, but it was anti-climatic lol
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    swollen crop

    Like I said, I haven't seen her since wednesday evening, so it very well could have been over 24 hours...
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    swollen crop

    I didn't see her yesterday really, so I wasn't sure how long it had been swollen, better safe then sorry I suppose.
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    swollen crop

    My bantam buff brahma has a swollen crop, and I massaged it for her, and it seemed to go down without any vomiting...normal?
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    Roo or Hen?

    I'm sure that's probably true, I guess it's a good thing my chickens are just pets. My kids were very excited about having a zebra chicken
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    Roo or Hen?

    Good to know! He just really doesn't seem like a rooster in person I guess. I saved them from what the woman called "freezer camp". She's a breeder and these two (the barred rock and NH red) had curved toes, so she didn't want them because of their deformities. They were too beautiful to eat...
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    Roo or Hen?

    That's what I thought too, but he came with another chicken (very clearly a NH Red rooster) and they're best friends. The barred rock is about half the size of the NH, stays out of everyone's way, and makes no noise, so I was just a little skepitcal....
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    Roo or Hen?

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    Why is one chicken sitting on another?

    Mine do this too. They don't seem to mind, actually they seem comfortable. I'm curious to see what other people have for insight...
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    Laying eggs in the yard:)

    I've heard people say to pick up the eggs and put them where you want them to lay, or place golf balls or plastic Easter eggs in their nest boxes :)
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    Tomatoes

    Thanks for the replies! I don't think it's any cause for concern at this point, I fed them the tomatoes almost a week ago, there were some red poops in the coop the next morning, and now like 4 days later they're all acting normal and pooping normal. They're even fighting over popcorn, I threw...
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    Tomatoes

    Yup, just leftovers
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    Tomatoes

    Will tomatoes cause the chickens poops to be different at all? Like possibly red or runny?
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    Very new!

    Hi all! I'm very new at all this but have been using the BYC forums for advice for a while before I got my very own chickens! Now we have 5 RIR hens, and 5 silkie cochin crosses (4 hens and a rooster)! And we're loving it!
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