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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    Northern Kentucky, they were purchased closer to central Kentucky.
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    They were absolutely crowded. The conditions they were being kept in were kind of appalling but I chalked it up to "they have hundreds of them so they are in this for money so I guess that's the most cost efficient way to do it" and whether I feel right about it is rather inconsequential. One of...
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    Thank you, I'm trying! I felt so bad for them when I saw them, I'd have taken 20 if I could have fit them in the dog crate I brought for transport (which is what the guy suggested.) They literally grabbed them by the necks and threw them in the crate. I was horrified.
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    Darn 😩 well, I was glad to get them out of there if nothing else.
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    Thank you! I was planning a trip to the store today for more feed and supplies so I'll add that to my list. 😊
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    Oh she's beautiful! Mine are white and light golden colored. I'm wondering if that's just they're juvenile feathering that hasn't changed yet or if they really are ISA Brown's. 🤔 I'm still fairly new to the chicken game and I'm not familiar with the breed.
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    The people I bought them from said they were 20 weeks old (but I don't know how much I can trust what they said based on how to they were keeping their hundreds.) They are smaller than my full grown (3+ year old) barred rocks and Wyandotte though.
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    I had them in a coop by themselves for 2-3 weeks so they could acclimate, reduce stress and of course, in case they were sick. I had to put them in my large coop sooner than I wanted because the door on my small coop broke and I was home by myself with the kids and couldn't go to the store and...
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    Here's a more close up
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    The orpington's comb really is big! I swear, two of mine in particular just look like rooster combs.
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    Huge combs on ISA Browns

    Can anyone explain why these hens have such large combs? I got them from some people who literally had hundreds of them. From what I read, the ISA Brown's are sex link chicks so they should all be females and none of them have sickle feathers or pointed feathers. They are all supposedly over...
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    Hello!

    I'm new, just started raising chickens as a hobby back in September. A friend of mine got me started by giving me 3 hens and a rooster and I purchased 3 guineas at a swap. I no longer have the guineas or the rooster but I have added 9 more hens. I have a barred rock hen, a scissor beaked...
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