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    What's your favorite/friendliest breed

    We have 2 Dominique, 2 Wyandotte, a Buff Orpington and a little bantam Serama. By far the sweetest ones are the Wyandottes, just so nice and calm and gentle. Our Dominiques are mean as all getout, particularly one of them that pecks everyone and everything super hard. Our Buff Orpington is...
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    Pullet toenail red and shrunken

    after more searching, I think it looks like this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-ripped-off-entire-toenail.1433464/ apologies to all that I didn't find this through the search previously! I will follow the same technique as given to this other person :)
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    Pullet toenail red and shrunken

    I was also just thinking that maybe I am seeing just the quick of the entire toenail and somehow the outer nail has ripped off?
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    Pullet toenail red and shrunken

    Hi BYC: My 21 week old Buff Orpington was hiding out in the coop this morning with her left foot in the air. I picked her up and her middle left toe is all red and shrunken. I brought her inside, the very tip of it looked brown and rotted. When I lightly jiggled the tip of the toenail, it bled...
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    Garden Loft Coop - finally completed!

    Here are some photos. We used siding scraps from the main build for the exterior ramp. It isn't screwed on; there's a 2x2 mounted horizontally across the bottom and it just rests on top of the roost. This makes it easy to move aside so that we can access that side of the coop to refill the...
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    Garden Loft Coop - finally completed!

    Hey there and sorry for the late response!! I think this coop could hold lots of bantams. Given that your 12 are a mixed flock, I think it’ll be tight. Definitely hang any feeders or waterers rather than setting them on the ground. We just put a brick under ours so our bantam can climb up to...
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    Does my pullet need medication? Yellow, watery poop + black spots on comb

    Thanks so much! I was thinking about worms too, but wasn't sure if they were too young. I do appreciate the help diagnosing those little black spots - good to know I don't have to worry about that anymore! The fecal float suggestion is a good one and I will do some research to see where I can...
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    Does my pullet need medication? Yellow, watery poop + black spots on comb

    Hi everyone, This morning I found my 18-week-old Dominique with her cape/neck feathers caked in a light brown, sewage-smelling color. I brought her inside to wipe off her feathers with damp towels, and while she was there she made a strange looking poop. A number of my pullets including this one...
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    Garden Loft Coop - finally completed!

    @Sally PB Yes! there are ceiling panels that have hardware cloth stretched across them.. and then since we are paranoid we put strips of it where the panels met the framing as well :D
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    Garden Loft Coop - finally completed!

    After a long month of building, preceded by a month of finding and ordering supplies, we just finished building the Garden Loft coop (from The Garden Coop) on Sunday! Until now, the chickens were spending the day in an enclosure rigged out of dog e-pens, deer netting and shade cloth connected to...
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    Odd behavior from runty bantam?

    Just thought I'd update this thread - our Serama frizzle girl has flourished with the others and isn't even at the bottom of the pecking order. She'll stand up to the big girls and peck them right in the eye. Weirdly, she does try to get under other chickens when they are dust-bathing, just as...
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    Odd behavior from runty bantam?

    Thanks so much for your story, @Ryguy3684. She seems to be always in the middle of the night-time snuggles, so I am hoping our situation will end up more like yours. She is going to be very tiny even when full-grown. We will see if we can get her a small chicken friend should things get too...
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    Odd behavior from runty bantam?

    Would it be better to rehome her if not? Or we could find some of our other chicks a different home in order to increase our total chicken numbers any further (we have a friend with a larger flock so this would be simple to do).
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    Odd behavior from runty bantam?

    I have a 15-day-old serama (Noodle) in the same brooder as week-old standards. The Serama was the sole survivor of eggs that we had in an incubator. The standards were mail ordered. They have been living together since the standards came home last Wednesday. Today, I moved the stuffed toy to...
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    How to help baby chicks in a brooder during heat wave?

    Thanks so much for the advice. I will set up a fan and leave the plate in. We have a round cardboard brooder wall, but you made me think that I can just wrap some cold packs in towels to cool things off. Great idea on the wet dirt! I'm in Northern California and it's our dry season when...
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