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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

    One more for the chicken calendar!
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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

    Photo entries for Chicken Calendar 2024
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    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    Hello! We are still here and still enjoying reading the forum, especially when we need good advice! Here is a photo of dust bath time for our two Brahma hens and the Wynodotte hen, with our Leghorn, Molly, watching.
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    Lash or shellless egg?

    We found this egg tonight, and while it is somewhat covered in bedding materials (pine chips), we are wondering if this rather rubbery mess is a shellless egg or a lash egg. We suspect it came from our five-year-old Wynodote hen. Thank you, Linda
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    Our laying ladies suddenly stopped laying

    I came to ask the very same thing! I live in Northern CA, and it's been cold and foggy most days, so my only guess is reduced light. Mine are also chicks from last summer.
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    Bumblefoot

    Very helpful, thank you. Getting ready to unwrap and rewash her foot. I ordered some Theracyn poultry wound spray that Amazon has promised to deliver later today, and then I'll use that for a few days and see how it looks. I'm so glad to know that maybe that outer scab it. She's been out in the...
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    Bumblefoot

    What a great idea! Thank you!
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    Bumblefoot

    Thank you for all your advice, I'm going to work on this today. About the nails; every time I try to trim the nails I aim to just take the tip, but my birds bleed anyway. I think I need to work on my technique.
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    Bumblefoot

    I'm almost certain this is bumblefoot, and I'm embarrassed to admit that despite the fact my well-loved chicken has been limping for the last few weeks, I neglected to look at her feet, but continued to look for leg injuries instead. The last few days have been hot here in Northern California...
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