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    Yellow gunk on head - help!

    They are all roaming a large area now and she is being treated normally, but I'll check and re-wash before tucking then into their enclosed run so nobody tries to pick anything off her when they're confined to close quarters. Thanks for the suggestion!
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    Yellow gunk on head - help!

    Ouch. That would make sense if it's egg on her. 😬
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    Yellow gunk on head - help!

    Hm. The nest boxes are clean with no residue and no dampness - so it couldn't have been from there. We have had a few eggs break (or be eaten) and it leaves the bottom of the boxes wet. Maybe one laid an egg in the run 🤔 that has happened once before, but we found it in there. I don't like the...
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    Yellow gunk on head - help!

    Can someone help me figure out what this is? Our sweet Susan looked normal yesterday, but my daughter let the chickens out after church today and Susan's head looked wet and lacking in some feathers, with this yellow stuff all around her head. I thought it could be pollen at first, but I don't...
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    Bi-Annual Coop Clean -- delay due to molting?

    Thanks you! I wasn't sure if it wasn't good to have feathers in there long term
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    Bi-Annual Coop Clean -- delay due to molting?

    Quick question that I would love feedback on. We are doing deep bedding in our coop. We started it in Nov last year and then deep cleaned it and emptied and re-filled at the end of April this year. We take the shavings and toss handfuls on top every few days in the interim. I planned to deep...
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    Comb partially ripped off - healing question

    Thank you for sharing. It's helping me be much less anxious!
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    Comb partially ripped off - healing question

    Thank you so much! I hate that this happened to your bird, too, but it's comforting to know all went well with yours. I considered leaving the ripped part, but it was hanging so low that I didn't. I doubted my decision afterwards, but I'm just making myself not second guess it.
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    Comb partially ripped off - healing question

    That's a good question - I should use some water and a cloth to see if I can wipe the ones on her face away easily. I don't know why I didn't think to do that. I need to go grab ointment, too. Didn't add any initially because I read to let the wound powder dry and scab and I thought it might...
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    Comb partially ripped off - healing question

    Yesterday my daughter discovered one of our birds had her comb ripped partially off. We have no idea what happened or how. It was ripped from the back and hanging over/in her eye and her head was covered in blood. It was still actively bleeding. There was much panic and I wasn't sure what to do...
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    Possibly nothing? Barred Plymouth Rock Leg

    My daughter brought me one of our plymouths and is very concerned about her leg. There's a spot that is black that didn't used to be black? They're just now laying eggs and maturing fully and I didn't know if it was a normal change and can't find anything online? The chicken is acting normal...
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    Fake egg, nesting box Q

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    Fake egg, nesting box Q

    We just finished our external nesting boxes attached to our coop. We had temporary milk crate ones in the coop for 2 weeks until these were built. We bought ceramic brown eggs to help them know where to lay.. and they kept kicking them out of the crates? Last night we had the nesting boxes...
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    Nesting box question

    We made our coop last September and knew we would add the nesting boxes later. Well, later has come 🤦🏻‍♀️. I intended us to have already build external nesting boxes that we planned to add - but it's been so rainy and we have been really busy. If I used milk crates for nesting boxes in their...
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    7 week old chicks

    I'm so hopeful! We can't have roosters and my kids are already so sad that we have to rehome Lemon Pepper. They'd be so upset if we lost any more. Thank you! I'm hopeful - this is encouraging. 🙌🏼🤗 thanks! I hope you're right!!!
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