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    How do you get your birds to be so friendly?

    Agree that luck plays a role. Every chicken has a different personality. Some breeds seems to be more inclined to like people. For example, I read that Dominiques were “friendly” and added one to my chick order a few years ago. Of my current flock, “Louise” the Dominique is definitely the...
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    Bumblefoot in a toe? If so, what to do? If not what else? Sophie needs your help.

    Thanks for the link. Here are videos of her walking, or trying to. She is in an isolation cage with her sister so the "big girls" won't chase her. I don't think it's broken, I've felt up and down the leg, can't feel anything wrong What I'm calling "flopping" is how she seems to throw her...
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    toe problems

    That sounds like what's going on with my pullet Sophie. Link to thread. Did you find out what was going on with Grace, @Ziggy173 ?
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    Bumblefoot in a toe? If so, what to do? If not what else? Sophie needs your help.

    Thanks for your reply. I'll keep reading similar threads here and maybe someone else has an idea
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    Bumblefoot in a toe? If so, what to do? If not what else? Sophie needs your help.

    Sophie is a 5 month old Rode Island Red. She is healthy and growing, good feathers, red comb, clear eyes, eats and drinks normally. No sign that she is ready to lay eggs yet. She eats a combination of a commercial start and grow crumble and some lay crumble with a little cracked corn as a treat...
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    Very Worried! Two hens sick, different symptoms

    Thanks for responding. Husband says Wilma laid an egg while I was gone, maybe three days ago. I don't see her trying to lay an egg now. I've read that you can feel a bound egg from the outside. I don't feel anything unusual.
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    3 dead, one traumatized with broken leg,one attacking the injured one

    Very sorry for your traumatic loss. That must have been awful! I agree that your smaller girl should come into the house for treatment if she is injured. Once she is healing, you might want to give her a space of her own where she can get away from the dominant one if she needs to. I have a...
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    Very Worried! Two hens sick, different symptoms

    Just got back from a week's vacation, and I have two sick hens. I'm very worried, trying to figure out what do do. I used the disease sticky to describe their conditions. No sign of injury or trauma for either bird. Maya was "off" win I left, Wilma was fine. Here's a rundown: Maya...
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    OMG - Is Connie a rooster?

    You guys know I was kidding about the birth control question, right? I do have other rooster questions, now that I seem to have one in the flock. I'll have to do some searching in the forums. I've had chickens for two years, but I've never paid much attention to rooster talk. One question...
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    OMG - Is Connie a rooster?

    Quote: Thanks for the positive note. I've been thinking of roosters as a pain in the A--, an aggravation to the girls. I'll have to change my attitude. She's... Um, that is...He's awfully pretty, after all. Thanks to everyone who've said how nice looking Connie is. She's a very handsome...
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    OMG - Is Connie a rooster?

    Yeah, I know I won't get chicks unless eggs are incubated. I just have some hens who like to go broody every now and then. I've been letting them sit on eggs until they just give up. Now, they just might get their fondest wish—unless I get get some plastic eggs.
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    OMG - Is Connie a rooster?

    Quote: Ha! Thanks for making me laugh! My little "Con Man"
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    Now the next dumb question

    My girls don't eat the shells. I don't give them peanuts on purpose but I've seen them find the ones hidden by the scrub jays. (I do feed peanuts in the shells to the scrub jays, who hide them in the mulch where the chickens like to scratch.) They (the chickens) seem to have a good time slamming...
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    new to this

    Hi Omlette, Welcome to BYC! Were your chickens babies when you got them? If so, three months is probably too early for eggs. You'll want to give them some sort of box with nesting stuff (straw or something like that) to lay eggs in eventually, otherwise it's an easter egg hunt every day...
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    Newbie from Ohio

    Welcome Dee! The BYC Peeps have taught me more about keeping chickens than I have learned anywhere else. Ask anything, these folks know.
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