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    Lethargic Chicken

    She definitely wanted to get back to the nest box and she let me pick her up but that isn't abnormal. She is one of the more easily pet and held hens. She was our first layer. Being dazed is a good way to describe her. I will see what she is like tomorrow. Thanks for the help. There a couple of...
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    Lethargic Chicken

    See attached picture. This is Big Mama Red. I free range my chickens for the last few hours of the sun light. When I open the coop and run the 8 mature hens are waiting and run out enjoying themselves. Today BMR never came out and was just laying in the nester like this. Pretty much the whole...
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    My LGD Great Pyr Killed Chicken

    Thank you so much for the feedback. For starters I would like to say I was incorrect, we got him at 8 weeks. So he is now 4 months We have two acres and live in Texas. The coop is opened in the morning and shut at night. We got him from a working ranch in which has for GPs two of which were...
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    My LGD Great Pyr Killed Chicken

    Well, we are in our first 6 months of raising our chickens - living in a somewhat rural area. We have seen bobcats, hawks, owls, coyotes and about two months ago a couple chickens were taken! We believe it was a hawk but could have been the bobcat. We started and had always thought we would...
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    Scabs? Help!

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    Scabs? Help!

    To know for sure would I need to take her to the vet? Is it highly contagious?
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    Scabs? Help!

    What is up with the comb on this one? Is it a disease? Or scab?
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Our first egg! I noticed it when I was going to put our puppy Great Pyrenees up for the night (I have them sleeping in the coop together). Walking up to close the door there was an egg right next to the door on the floor of the coop. It was dark and I don't know who it was. Maybe our austerlorp...
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    Hen or rooster? Got from straight run!?

    Maybe this picture would be better
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    Hen or rooster? Got from straight run!?

    This is my production red. Does it look like a hen?
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    Hen or rooster? Got from straight run!?

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    Hen or rooster? Got from straight run!?

    This is an Americauna. Got from a straight run....about 4 months old now.
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    When will my girls start laying!?

    Thanks Wyandottes7! A lot of help. I have noticed the larger ones are squatting a lot. I did not know what it was called or why until you just described it. In that flock, I have a Production Red, Americauna, SLWyandotte, and two austerlorps. Woud you think that the amount of space in my...
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    When will my girls start laying!?

    Hi, I am fairly new and have five hens that are in their fourth month of age now. I have another 5 that are about 3 months. The old five have not started laying yet. I have a 8x8x8 foot coop. They all mosy on in every night and then we let them out in the morning. We have nesting boxes...
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    New Chicken Family in Texas

    Thanks for the kind words! Look forward to being in the group!
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