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    Help for abused hen with bad smell

    Thank you both for the suggestions! She’s caged apart from the rest of the flock, and I will bathe her first thing to check for bugs. That’s a great idea.
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    Help for abused hen with bad smell

    i work at a camp with too many roosters, and this poor hen has had her back feathers and tail ripped off by a roo. She smells really, really bad and I suspect has lice, but I’d hesitate to dust her because of her sore pink back (there are visible sore spots). I made her an apron but she pulled...
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    Do they "mind" the egg gathering?

    Ha, that's really funny. My broody bantams are so persistent that I have to remove the wooden eggs from the nesting box along with the real ones in order to discourage them from resettling on them at night when the others are roosting. Good luck with your hatch! I'd love to do it, but I...
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    Do they "mind" the egg gathering?

    Does anyone know whether non-broody hens seem to "mind" our taking the eggs? Lately, I find myself diverting their attention with a handful of seeds before grabbing the eggs out of the box. My husband thinks I'm crazy, but it's not just hypersensitivity; I don't want the hens to think the...
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    fertile eggs on plane... 5/26/11 UPDATE... Ca. eggs are here in Ill. !

    I just completed a journey from Newark to Salt Lake City (and back home again, yay) with a carton of breakfast eggs, wrapped in bubble wrap, in my carry-on! It was hilarious to see their unmistakeable shadows on the xray screen. The Newark TSA people didn't even blink when I told them up front...
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    Let's start a metro NYC area thread? Looking for Easter Eggers!

    Hi-- I'm in Northern New Jersey, a poultry lover's desert, and it gets awkward looking at info about birds in far-flung areas of NJ and NY and CT (I know, boo hoo!). Maybe we need our own thread?? We definitely need to support each other if your neighbors are like mine (good people who...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest: 200,000 BYC Members? Guess the DAY & HOUR and Win!!!

    5/24/2013 11:59 AM
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    Roosting Order ?????

    Yes-- I have just witnessed this firsthand!! My two ~25 week hens, a leghorn and peppery RIR, gave hell to our two 16-week-old Buff Orps, even after we had them look but not touch for a longish interval. THANK HEAVEN, after a month of stress and newbies shoved out into the run, they finally...
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    Odd leg shuffle-- new little dance-- why?

    Yes! Yes! Like kicking the dust from their proverbial sandals, they shake themselves off and walk away. How funny. I sort of suspected that it was part of the submission thing, since it looks a little like how they would respond to the roos, but I wasn't positive. Thank you!! How did you...
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    Odd leg shuffle-- new little dance-- why?

    Hi, My daughters and I have noticed that our Rhode Island Red and our Leghorn hens, twenty-one weeks and new layers both, have started doing this funny thing when we move to pick them up. They lift their wings slightly at the shoulders, crouch toward the ground, and do a weird little churning...
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    introducing new chickens: question about "look but don't touch"

    Quick, grateful update: I have a partition in my coop enabling me to separate the birds, and during the day they range in two groups (newbies and old girls) and stay out of each other's ways. For a week I quietly slipped the new birds into the coop at night on the roosting perch next to the...
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    Reflections on the Culling of My Rooster- A Personal Narrative

    I cried, too, Charlotte, and I'm a high school English teacher lucky enough to read thoughtful writing pretty often.... Yours struck especially close to home, because I had to cull Louis, our last rooster, about two weeks ago. But unlike you, I brought mine to somebody else, the guy who sells...
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    introducing new chickens: question about "look but don't touch"

    Wouldn't that be nice, though?! Actually the last rooster I had used to do the wing-fanning-and-dragging dance for the ladies. Sometimes. It was so endearing that we tolerated a lot of other stuff while he was here. The question for me, behind your post, is this: am I supposed to "be the...
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    introducing new chickens: question about "look but don't touch"

    Aoxa, thank you again. I was just going out to the coop and literally paused on the way out to check the thread, hoping someone would have chimed in to say don't swat chickens. I've been more unsure of myself than usual with this (I think the emotions of chickens are more contagious than those...
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    introducing new chickens: question about "look but don't touch"

    That's what we're seeing: our Rhode Island red is SUCH a bully to the orpingtons; no blood but lots of chasing, pecking and drama. The advice I just got from the guy who sold me the orps came in a three word text, please excuse language but it made me laugh: he said to "***** slap bullies." I...
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