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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    Edit to add: The hatchery does not have Buff sussex chicks, but she does look very similar to one! They are lovely! Maybe the hatchery has them secretly? 😂 The hatchery does have Buff Brahmas, and she could be mixed with that as well or in place of the buff orpington. She was a Rural King...
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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    Sorry for the delayed reply! Butter has to my knowledge never laid an egg and I suspect she may be infertile due to the timing of her previous illness, which occurred right at the age when she should have started laying. We did find a "mystery egg" in the nesting box we thought might have been...
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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    Sorry for the delayed reply! Butter has (to my knowledge) never laid an egg and I suspect she may be infertile due to the timing of her previous illness, which happened right at the age when she should have begun laying. We did find a "mystery egg" in the nesting box recently that we thought...
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    Lavender Orpington

    I have a blue andalusian that makes the loudest min-dinosaur sounds as well, sometimes for no reason at all. I think she gets a kick out of it because none of the other chickens can make those sounds 😅
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    (Update!) Dominant hen or roo question (Meet Butter!)

    My previous post is here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/dominant-hen-or-roo-meet-butter.1674518/ My lovely Butter, the large-and-in-charge pullet, enjoying a nap on a people foot: Coming back to add that I figured out what led to the very unexpected crowing! Apparently Butter has...
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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    Butter's comb is actually smaller in size than the ones on 2 of my laying hens. They started had bright thick combs for a while and then started wearing floppy "berets" right after laying 😅 so maybe there is just some strange hormone thing happening. Definitely no rooster feathers though.
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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    This is another picture of Butter at 5 months, in the preferred position of sleeping on a person:
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    Hello! ChatGPT and chickens story

    I agree, it is totally possible it pulled most of the info from here--but the real advantage was the creation of hour-by-hour schedule of what to do that could get updated in real time based on changes to symptoms/changes as they were observed. AI is certainly not foolproof, however. I wish the...
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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    It was definitely crowing sound I heard, but I don't think it was as loud as the roosters across the way. And now that I'm thinking about it Butter has been meaner to the other hens for the last 3 days than I've seen even after going back to the flock and taking the top spot back. I wonder if...
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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    I have wondered about hormones as well since there is definitely no laying happening.
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    Hello! ChatGPT and chickens story

    New to posting! One thing I'd like to share right away is that I have used ChatGPT to come up with an hour-by-hour treatment plan for a chicken that had suspected sour crop but confirmed crop stasis and that since FULLY recovered. I haven't seen many people mention using AI to come up with...
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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    This is Butter :) In this picture, Butter is 5 months and one week old. Sold as a "rainbow egger" but from searching the internet, I am fairly certain is a Barred Rock and Buff Orpington combo (hatchery has both breeds). The dark brown chicken in the background is a hen of the same age, also...
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