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    Help! ...Rooster 🐓 questions.... can i keep him?

    Who has advice on how to keep a rooster quiet in an urban neighborhood and how NOT to have baby chicks?? One of our chicks turned out to be a roo and my kids have grown attached to the little feller and I have too 💛😩 he's so sweet and beautiful. But he's awfully loud early in the am and we...
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    Eggbound! Help me get it out! Already been to VET!

    And yes she had been laying prior to this but she's always had fragile shells and misshapen eggs. She laysbinfrquently but then 2 at a time sometimes. She rarely lays at all the past year and a half or so. I always provide oyster shells in the run and only have this issue with her. I have given...
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    Eggbound! Help me get it out! Already been to VET!

    She wasn't given an xray. The vet was after hours emergency and quite pricey just to get in the door. She was given oxytocin to get contractions going and calcium drops which I took home and am continuing. We have another aply with a vet who is more experienced with eggbound hens. But she's not...
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    Eggbound! Help me get it out! Already been to VET!

    Hello fellow chicken folk. I am desperately looking for advice from seasoned chicken keepers, especially those who really know the anatomy of a hen. My 4 year old Americauna hen, Jolene is eggbound. It feels as though she has 2 eggs in the oviduct. It is day 3. I have tried multiple Epsom salt...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens?

    I started with chicks: a barred rock. Rhode island red and Americauna. We now have 6. Chickens. We unfortunately lost our RIR and added a buff orpington, lavendar orpington, austrolorp, and an easter egger. I love the variety and hope to add an olive egger and a copper maran for the beautiful...
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    Eggbound or Not? First flock. HELP.

    Thank you! I hope this is the case
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    Eggbound or Not? First flock. HELP.

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    Eggbound or Not? First flock. HELP.

    Hey all, my 2 year old Barred Rock hen jumped down from a tall planter last week and seemed to hit her belly pretty hard on the edge of a galvanized tub. It sounded pretty loud and she was ruffled up for sure but went on to seem fine. She is a regular layer and usually lays several large eggs a...
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    When will my RIR lay? She's last on the boat!

    First of all hello! I am brand new to this group and this is my first post. Any help would be appreciated. Including ideas on if this is the appropriate place to post my ?? on the site . :) So, we have three pullets. These are our first chickens and I absolutely love them! I had no idea their...
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