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    Hot stubborn chickens.

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    Hot stubborn chickens.

    Oh this is a good idea. Lol I will try this. i’m going to draw this too!
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    Hot stubborn chickens.

    Ok, we have a lot of chickens (with a few turkeys and guineas). They are all incredibly stubborn and All of them have been displaying signs of being overly hot (not surprising- we are in the middle of a heat wave and have had heat advisories). We have a new fairly large coop with a fan and...
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    My chickens who clearly do not know they are chickens…

    She is adorable! Yes! They follow everywhere! If someone comes to the house, they all run over the second they hear the door open to “help” greet the person. Haha you should see the looks we get when someone is brave enough to sit on the patio and they end up with a lap full of chickens. 🤣 we...
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    My chickens who clearly do not know they are chickens…

    So, maybe I baby my chickies a bit more than most, or maybe these chickies are just neurotic. It is true that most people spend ages trying to get their flock to be friendly. However, with my flock i try to make them a bit less so. We live on quite a bit of acreage and I have like 60...
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    Long Term Hard Molt, Coccidiosis or Worms

    When I started chickening, I inherited a hen that did this who was almost 5 yo. Her name is Clover. She is 6yo now and has stopped laying. I took her to the vet bc she had constant poopy butt and diarrhea… I was given meds even though he vet said tests were negative… at first he thought it was...
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    Barnaby the Tur-dog-Ken (turkey/dog/chicken)

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    Chicken poop and gardening… help please!

    Ok, this makes sense. I assume by then any contaminants would have been filtered out and eaten…. I just do not want to give my family E. coli or something. Lol.
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    Chicken poop and gardening… help please!

    Ok, so I have a lot of chickens. I also have a little garden that they are unable to get to, where I attempt to grow everything from tomatoes, to lettuce, just for our family. I would like to start using the chicken poop as fertilizer. I have several “recipes” (if that is what you call chicken...
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    Roosters… to keep or not to keep?

    Also, I forgot to mention the enclosure that we built for them (with advice from people on this forum) is 24 x 20x10 on the inside and has an outside run that is enclosed that is 40 x 12. Of course they are let out every day to free range but this way they always have access to outside if they...
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    Roosters… to keep or not to keep?

    OK, I will keep an eye out. I honestly don’t know what to expect. We inherited some of these chickens and then the others I have gotten. We sell the eggs from them. I’m not sure how we ended up with so many roosters, but it happened.
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    Roosters… to keep or not to keep?

    OK, I will keep it as is for now. Things are pretty peaceful. Lol. I was just afraid of waking up one day and coming out to a rooster massacre.
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    Pullet is stumbling backwards! Help!

    If you want to isolate the niacin, you can get an oral supplement from CVS. Just give them a few little drops in their bake a few times a day. it is entirely possible that it’s a duck thing, but I have done this with chickens and wild birds too before. In most cases it has worked, but that is...
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    Roosters… to keep or not to keep?

    Hello, I posted something similar a while back but it was in the wrong place and I didn’t get very many replies so I’m trying again. :) So we have accidentally ended up with quite a few roosters (apx 10? With apx 60 females -variety of breeds). Birds ages range from 6 years to 6 months… they...
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    Gray Silkies? Not sure

    I got a few that Pretty much looked exactly like this as chicks and they turned out to be dark gray (not the light lavender and not dark black). :)
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