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    Dead Chicken

    This JUST happened to one of our 19 month old Plymouth Barred Rocks. Exactly the same story: she seemed absolutely fine yesterday. She just finished her first molt. Super healthy looking and acting girl, if a bit chonky as opposed to thin. Found her dead in the coop this afternoon laying...
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    Losing hope with chicks that hate me 😣

    So we’re only 2 years into chickens but our first generation of hens (Plymouth Barred Rocks, Buff Orpingtons, and a Dominique) are amazing loving cuddle bugs. This second crew of Wyandottes and Ameraucanas are lunatic girls who behave exactly like you describe your girls. We’ve just taken to...
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    Ended 12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Incubator!

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    Mites/Lice?

    Ok, dusted/treated my girls, cleaned and dusted/treated their coop, gave them a dust bath to play in filled with diatomaceous earth, fixed up and cleaned up their run, and will repeat in a week, and then a final time a week after that. Girls seem happy.
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    Mites/Lice?

    So helpful!!!!! Thank you!
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    Mites/Lice?

    Ok. Our 5 girls are about 7 months old. Only 1-2 are laying. I was giving one with a red messy vent a warm soak and saw lots of tiny white bugs crawling around her eyes. Seems they may have lice/mites? I’m off to get Poultry Dust for them and the run/coop. I’ll treat the girls with the...
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    Come One, Come All to the Greatest Unofficial Bird Show for the Nest Two Weeks (No Prizes)

    And this glow up from feisty coop roof runner to chonkiest birb is Pester. Pester is best birb, perfect in all ways, alpha but gentle, protecting her sisters calmly from the highest roost.
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    Come One, Come All to the Greatest Unofficial Bird Show for the Nest Two Weeks (No Prizes)

    This pretty girl is Faith. She was the runt of the clutch and is still tiny. She’s super speedy and full of sass. Good luck trying to catch her!
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    Malformed Egg?

    Hey all. My birds are just at egg laying age-27 weeks old. Only my Dominique is consistently laying an egg a day. Just found this in their run. Is this normal for a beginning malformed egg? Should I worry?
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    Free Riding Hens?

    Update! Today we got our first 2 eggs!!! The girls are 25 weeks old. Huzzah!
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    Free Riding Hens?

    Hello, Our 5 hens (2 Plymouth barred rock, 1 Dominique, and 2 Buff Orpingtons) are 5 months old today. They are happy and healthy and in a big secure run with a nice coop, deluxe accommodations, great food, fresh produce, bugs, let out to free range for a few min each day supervised just for a...
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    Glen Caileag Chickens

    Charlie Rocket is the red merle boy (Australian Shepherd), Freyja is the blue merle girl (border), Luna is the barn cat (good mouser, wormed her way into living mostly inside). 3 Barred Rocks are Pester, Chastity, and Faith. 2 Buff Orps are Butterscotch and Buffy.
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    Glen Caileag Chickens

    Hey everyone! Wheeler Three from Glen Caileag farmette introducing ourselves. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We are new to chickens and got our first chicks a few weeks ago. We live in the country and have been planning for chickens for years. The covid-19...
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    Respiratory Issue in 3.5 week old Buff Orp Chick?

    Thank you! Just to be clear, I can pour from the same gallon of medicated water for the chicks for up 3 days before making a new gallon batch of tylan water? And don’t need to make fresh from new powder and water daily?
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    Respiratory Issue in 3.5 week old Buff Orp Chick?

    Greetings all. We are new to the forum, but have been lurking, reading, and gleaning TONS of helpful info from these boards. We presently have 5x 3.5 week olds: 3 Plymouth Barred Rock chicks and 2 Buff Orpingtons, all from the same (questionable) small local breeder. We have already...
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