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    names- you decide!

    I’m sorry about your chick! 😢
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    names- you decide!

    Some of my favorite names that I’ve named my chickens that you might be interested in are: Nugget Henrietta Scramble Drumstick That was my last flock that was pun-themed, and my current flock is elderly people names.
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    Pullet barely growing

    Hello, I have a flock of 14 week old barred rocks. When they arrived, they were all the same size and everything seemed great. However I noticed over time that there was a smaller one than the rest, starting at around 10 weeks. While the rest of the flock grows, this pullet is staying the same...
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    what disease is taking out my flock?

    Hello, I had 12 hens a few years ago when they were first hatched, and a few died to sour crop, one to an unknown cause, but the majority died to something that I don’t understand. (We have 5 hens left and one is currently ill with this.) Symptoms: -Ravenous for food and water (will eat or...
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    pullet got squished and chipped nail

    I got home late and checked my flocks, we’re trying to combine my older flock with my young flock, 8-11 weeks old. We have a dog crate in their cage to provide shelter in case the older chickens are picking on the young ones. There’s a slim space between the wall of the coop and the dog crate...
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    chicken got stung by carpenter bee?

    Hey, so I noticed a carpenter bee was on some mesh in the chicken run, and I smacked it down so that I could kill it before he ate the chicken coop. It happened to land right near my favorite chicken’s foot, and she stepped right on it. Apparently carpenter bees can sting, and she’s been...
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    Questions about roosters in the flock

    We have 5 other older hens that we will incorporate with the new flock.
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    Questions about roosters in the flock

    thank you so much haha
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    Questions about roosters in the flock

    I’d like to try to avoid hatching chicks
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    Questions about roosters in the flock

    Hey BYC! I used to be semi active on this forum a few years ago but I decided to make a new account and start fresh. My new flock is 10 5-week old Barred Rocks, and 2 of them were wrongly sexed and are roos. I know absolutely nothing about keeping roosters, but I want to try to make it work...
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