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    Deep Dark Brick Red Poop

    Thanks very much for that information! Our chickens range and I’m pretty sure the neighbors give them treats often. I feel a lot less worried now, I really appreciate your response.
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    Deep Dark Brick Red Poop

    Curious if the poop you refer to here looks anything like the attached photo? I found that in the coop this am and also had no luck googling it. Ignore it does, did you ever find out a reason or did it turn out to be something to be concerned about? Thanks!
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    Reddish brown solid poop

    I found a strange poop in the coop this am, have not seen one like it in the nearly two years we have had chickens. Googling hasn’t helped me understand if this is a sign of something to be concerned about or not. Has anyone had any experience with poop like this? We have 24 chickens right now...
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    Hawk attack

    Well she’s eating and drinking and even laid an egg in the dog crate so she’s graduated up to an xpen :). She’s pretty energetic and definitely annoyed with being in the hen hospital. Thanks everyone for the advice and support!!
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    Hawk attack

    Thanks so much for the info and pep talks! She seems to still be fever free and it’s astonishing how quickly she’s rebounding, her abraised skin looks so much better already and so far her many wounds look infection free and on the road to healing. I am much less panicked today.
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    Hawk attack

    Hello, one of my year old buff orpingtons was attacked by a hawk yesterday afternoon. She admirably fought it off and we scared it away and immediately brought her inside to the house and put her in a dog crate. We confined the rest of the flock to their coop and run and I cleaned her wounds...
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    Speckled Sussex feathering/gender question

    There are a couple of older (years old) threads on this site that pretty much indicated the same thing: solid white = more likely males. Did you happen to notice anything else like slower to develop tail feathers or anything that went along with the white chests? Right now mine look and act...
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    The Sussex thread!

    Ok good to know! We already have one rooster to rehome so I really hope he's the only one!
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    The Sussex thread!

    New to chickens and have 4 speckled Sussex in my mixed breed flock of 15. They are five weeks and I've read some about how the amount of white breast feathers might indicate gender. Is there much to this? I have two with minimal white on their breasts and two with almost fully white breasts. In...
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    Speckled Sussex feathering/gender question

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    Speckled Sussex feathering/gender question

    Hi, ive read a lot about how the amount of white in a speckled Sussex chick's breast feathers might indicate gender. I have four 5 week olds and two have very little white : And two have much wider and thicker white on their chests: Other than that they seem to be very similar and...
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    5 week old australorp rooster?

    Thanks for the confirmation!
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    5 week old australorp rooster?

    Hello, this is my first go at raising chickens and in my mixed breed flock of 15 I have four australorps. Three look nearly identical and I suspect that the fourth maybe a he. Out of all 15 "he" is the only one with no real tail feathers yet and "he" has a very different personality from the...
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