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    yolk in poop after pullet laid a soft-shell egg

    ah i didnt get any photos but i should have. i cleaned up the poop pretty quickly because if it was something bad i didnt want the others trying to eat it. it was basically just a normal looking poop except this thick yellow liquid came out at the same time which had the exact same colour and...
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    yolk in poop after pullet laid a soft-shell egg

    i have a young pullet and today she laid her 4th egg. i had some concerns though. so i noticed she seemed really lethargic and i had a few things in mind. maybe heatstroke (weve had a really bad heatwave recently) or maybe shes egg bound but i got super worried and instantly got her a cup of...
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    hen drinks loads of water, spits it out with some soggy food from crop, and then eats it again??

    thank you for the reply. she is definitely still stressed, ive had her just under 2 weeks now and shes definitely still the most scared of me out of the 3 hens i got. i will also note that her poop is sometimes quite watery (like 50% of the time its normal, the other 50% its quite watery) but i...
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    hen drinks loads of water, spits it out with some soggy food from crop, and then eats it again??

    i checked her crop this morning after someone on reddit told me to and it was empty. shes still pooping though sometimes it is a little watery. i checked again mid-way through the day and also before bed and it was pretty full, just felt the same as my other chickens and no noticeable hard...
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    hen drinks loads of water, spits it out with some soggy food from crop, and then eats it again??

    im in the uk and its about 30C which doesnt sound super hot but its been extremely hot this past week or so. does that make it possible shes just overhydrating and drinking too much to keep down?
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    hen drinks loads of water, spits it out with some soggy food from crop, and then eats it again??

    i recently bought a new hen who keeps doing something strange. she will at random points in the day go and drink a ton of water at once (more than she normally does at one time) and then spit out the water as well as some food from her crop, and then start eating the food she just spit out? i...
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    any guesses on sex? silkie experts.

    nope unfortunately, :( we sold chick 1 and a couple of weeks later chick 2 grew a huge comb and started trying to mate the other hens. this was my first time having silkies, they really are a surprise
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    any guesses on sex? silkie experts.

    chick 2 is the bottom of the pecking order out of 3 chickens (chick 1 and another confirmed pullet) which makes me think shes a girl
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    any guesses on sex? silkie experts.

    got 2 silkie chicks, both 8 weeks old. im sure one is a rooster because of the massive wattles he started growing last week, but not so sure about the other. shes the bottom of the pecking order, really calm and friendly and has pretty much no wattle growth. though i know it can be hard to sex...
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    Question about chicken colours (gold partridge)

    i have a gold partridge pekin chick about 5 weeks old. of course roosters and hens look different and the roosters tend to have black feathers with the firey red on the back/ neck and hens tend to have black and brown pencilling over the body with a bright orange belly and head. my question is...
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    pullet or cockerel? pekin bantam turned 5 weeks old today

    sorry if pictures are bad, any help appreciated!!
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    chick wont stop stress chirping unless im right in front of it

    yes its with other chicks, they spent their first 1-2 days in the incubator together - all the same age. it was happy and quiet with this other chicks until i held it one day and everyday since has been hell. the other chicks will come out from the heatplate if the chirping goes on too long and...
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    chick wont stop stress chirping unless im right in front of it

    its genuinely infuriating at this point and i have considered culling this chick multiple times. i keep the brooder in my room as i have no other place to put it. this chick is 1.5 weeks old. it didnt do this the first few days but then i picked it up ONCE and now it cries until im right in...
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    humidity dropped super low during hatching, advice?

    so i did a dry hatch where the humidity was around 30% the first 18 days. then into lockdown obviously i increased it. yesterday one chick successfully hatched and last night at about 1am i checked and there was 2 pipped eggs, one had more progress because it had pipped a bit earlier but it...
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    chick will not stop chirping after i added new chicks

    i only hatched one chick recently and it has been non stop crying for the past 3 days. i was finally able to get a couple more chicks from somebody but it still hasnt stopped crying. all chicks are about the same age/size, all can fit comfortably under heat, have access to clean food and water...
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