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    Respiratory Crud?

    She has no discharge or puffy/swollen eyes or odor. The only outward signs (besides the wheezy breathing) is the pale/droopy comb and her body language (lethargic, droopy tail). She has green poop but I think that's from the antibiotic - hence the yogurt I'm giving her. I'll pick up some Tylan...
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    Respiratory Crud?

    One of my coops only has 4 chickens in it (2 Buffs (2.5 yrs), 2 SLW (6 months old, 1 pullet, 1 roo)). On Wednesday of last week (Oct 1), I noticed one of my Buffs sounded like she had a stuffy nose, so I pulled her out of the coop and locked her in our large brooder. On Friday, my roo also had...
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    What is taking my chickens?

    We have lost 5 chickens in the last 2 weeks. :( We free range our chickens during the day and lock them up in the coop at night. The first two were out of our 15 week old pullet flock. They kept going into the woods and we lost 2. All we found were the feathers in the woods - a big circle of...
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    Secret Nest

    So I just had a surprising discovery - one of my hens sitting on a secret nest of 14 (yes 14!!!) eggs. We thought our ladies were taking a break from laying due to the extreme heat we've been having. They started slowly laying again about a week ago. Apparently one of them never stopped (she's...
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    11.5 week SLW - I know one's a roo, but two...?

    Well, ****. What age should I separate them by? I'm fine with keeping one, but can't have two. How to SLW and Buff Orpingtons cross? Will I get Buff Laced Winged?
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    11.5 week SLW - I know one's a roo, but two...?

    I have 3 11.5 week old SLW chicks. One of them is crowing, but I don't know which one. Two of them look the same, and then one of them is completely different. Unfortunately, the ones that look alike are the ones I think look "roosterish." I'm fine with having one rooster, but if I have two, one...
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    Pellets vs. Grain Feed

    They seem healthy and energetic. One is molting. I was actually thinking and I'm wondering if instead of seeing a decrease in egg size, I'm actually seeing the same chicken laying. We have one chicken that lays a smaller, darker egg than the other two. The last 3 eggs have been small and dark...
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    Pellets vs. Grain Feed

    Oh and thank you for the compliment. She's so much fun. :) She'll be 14 months old next week and absolutely loves "her" chickens. As soon as you go outside she starts pointing at the coop going "buck buck buck!" Adorable. :) She also likes to get ahold of the treat can and try to entice them...
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    Pellets vs. Grain Feed

    Thank you very much!! I will get out there this morning ASAP and check that bag. It was just the brand the local feed store carried - never heard of it but then again I haven't had chickens that long so, haha. I can always go another town over - they have a Tractor Supply so I can get Purina or...
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    Pellets vs. Grain Feed

    We've only had our chickens (3 Buff Orpington hens that are ~21 months old) for a couple months. We were feeding them from the bag of feed the guy we bought them from gave us (it was Countryside Organic soy-free layer feed). It was a grain type mix. We were getting 2 eggs a day and the girls...
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    New to chickens! :)

    Thank you everyone for the welcome! The coop is 4'x6' and is 8.5' high at the peak of the roof, has 4 nesting boxes and a roosting pole. The run is 5'x8'. I was hoping to get 3 more layers and in the future rotate about 2 fryers.
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    New to chickens! :)

    Hello everyone! My husband and I just purchased a 17 acre farm and also bought a huge chicken coop (picture below) that came with 3 Buff Orpington hens (18 months old). I have a BS in Animal Science but my background is horses and cattle - I have no chicken experience. The guy we bought the...
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