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    Anyone feed their chickens asparagus beans AKA long beans?

    I fed a small handful of long beans (chopped up) at a time to my chickens, the birds were fine after had eaten them. To be safe, it's best to boil the beans before serving them to the chickens, and the total amount of long beans served not exceed 1/3 of their feed.
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    Leg Splayed Backward

    Can you take more pictures, it is hard to see from that one single photo. Also, it's probably more appropriate to post this under Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures sub-forum.
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    Ugliest egg I ever saw!

    I think it is a cool egg, just special in it's own way! :)
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    Rooster attacked for the first time

    I have 4 roosters, only 1 attacks and he likes to sneaky attack on me from behind. The other three are fine. The head rooster has never attacked me, he is a sweet little boy, likes to follow me around. Interestingly, the one that attacks me is the lowest on the pecking order. A lot of the...
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    How intense is your pecking order?

    Giving your birds a lot of more spaces and things to do will generally alleviate pecking order problems. Once I had to confine my 5 hens in a 5 square meters coop for a few days, it's heart-wrenching watching some of the low ranking birds pecked and forced into a corner. Nowadays I free range...
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    Molting or something else?

    For mites and lice, you should check her belly/vent area, that's where mites/lice like to multiply. Has it been a hot summer, how's coop's ventilation? My big structured Australorp rooster lost some feathers last summer, when early afternoon temperature frequently reached above 32C/90F .
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    No tails and some bald backs and other spots.

    For mites and lice, you can check their belly/vent area, if there is an infestation, usually there are mite/lice eggs and live insects. For protein, if feed with higher protein level is hard to obtain, mealworm, fishmeal, meat scraps will do the job. Some people give their hens cooked eggs. I...
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    Open Contest 2026 BYC Calendar Photo Contest - We Need Your Pictures!

    Maybe it's the effect of chicken maths .. :lau:oops:
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    Multi-pronged approach for mites

    Are you sure this is not from over-mating? My hens had problem with mites a couple of months ago, but the feather loss was more around the vent area, where mites like to multiply.
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    Fowl pox

    Good to hear that they are all healed now. I didn't keep mine in quarantine after he has fully recovered - it's a highly contagious disease, if the others were to get it, they would have got it by the time that the last one has fully recovered.
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    Chickens in nature

    Free ranging rooster flock on a windy day:
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    Chickens in nature

    If you are talking about him: Unfortunately, I don't know his exact breed as I bought him as an egg, given to my broody hen and he was the only one that hatched. He has 5 toes on each foot, some of the other eggs were supposed to be pure silky, so I assume that he is some kind of silky mix...
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    Two roosters in my flock are over two years old, the other two are slightly over 1 year. They sometimes show intention to fight - the wing dance, staring into each others eyes & hackle feather raised, but these hardly ever results in a real fight. There was one major fighting episode in the...
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    Thanks @MaryJanet @Jenbirdee
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    Thank you @N F C @Doodlemom63 @BYC Project Manager @BackyardinWales He indeed is the head rooster at the moment. With that said, I think all the roosters are fairly good looking in their own ways: Except for this Barred rock ... He liked to play with my boots, of course my boots won...
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