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    EE Hen, uncontrollable and strange neck spasming

    Coco is an EE hen around 8 months old. I only noticed this behavior today, but I have not been home for quite some time so I am unsure as to how long this has been going on. She does eat feathers and we've applied Rooster Booster Pick-No-More cover-up lotion to the other birds, but I've seen...
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    Egg squeezed out of Easter Egger by "Hen Saver" chicken saddle?

    Thank you so much for your response - 4 hens, used to have roosters but they have since been rehomed (they were my buddies since we raised them from day-old chicks, but they were wreaking havoc on what was then only two hens). The two EEs are 8 months, and the two older hens are about a year...
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    Egg squeezed out of Easter Egger by "Hen Saver" chicken saddle?

    My EE hen is around 8 months old and a good layer. Our Australorp hen (yes, hen) has been aggressively mounting her for quite some time; the feather damage progressed to a point that there was no doubt that a hen saddle would be a good solution for both of them. My mother had trouble getting...
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    Combs: How pale is too pale?

    We used to have three roosters (yikes) but rehomed them back in May. Actually, I was pretty surprised by that very deep red comb as well! I never saw it firsthand, and that picture is a screenshot from a video my brother sent to me while I was away at school - I made the same testosterone...
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    Combs: How pale is too pale?

    The comparison was more just to provide context to the color, trying to show that lighting wasn't the issue; their combs have always been different colors, but I thought it would be helpful to show how great the contrast was by providing the other comb for comparison. Sorry, should have made...
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    Combs: How pale is too pale?

    Yep! Molting is the culprit. Thank you so much for your help :)
  7. Quetzalcoatl at 1 month old

    Quetzalcoatl at 1 month old

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  8. Barba (Cream Legbar) with her day-old EE chicks, Kukumatz and Quetzalcoatl

    Barba (Cream Legbar) with her day-old EE chicks, Kukumatz and Quetzalcoatl

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  9. Kukumatz, 5 month old EE

    Kukumatz, 5 month old EE

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    Combs: How pale is too pale?

    I haven't noticed any feather loss, but I will definitely keep checking!
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    Tenacious bald patch!

    My 15 month old Australorp still has a bare patch on her back. We haven't had a rooster with the hens in a little over five months. When we had a rooster, the hens were starting to look pretty beaten up; we re-homed the rooster and my 15 month old cream legbar's feathers grew back pretty...
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    Combs: How pale is too pale?

    I have four hens total: one Cream Legbar and one Australorp, aged 15 months, and two 5 month-old EEs. The Australorp and EEs have beautiful red combs, but my Cream Legbar has always had somewhat of a lighter comb. At times it looks perfectly fine, but recently it has been looking slightly...
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    3 month old Americaunas?

    Thank you for the breed correction -- at the feed store, they were identified as "Americaunas ('Easter Eggers')" so I was under the impression that they were the same breed. Is there any relation to the two?
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    3 month old Americaunas?

    Orange-head here is named Quetzalcoatl; I'm relatively confident that she is a pullet. (On an unrelated note, our two hens, one of whom raised her and her sibling, are being pretty aggressive towards her in particular. Any thoughts?) (Im hoping these pictures arent as blurry as they look in...
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    Broody hen: Is patience a virtue?

    My 9-month-old cream legbar has gone broody -- to be clear, she is sitting in the egg box at all hours of the day, even when there are no eggs -- and as I really don't have any desire to have more chickens at this time (and we have re-homed our roosters out of courtesy for our poor neighbors...
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