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    Integrating new hen

    So we have seven full grown hens, six of them have been together all their lives (4+ years), one was added a couple years ago as an adult and integrated I successfully. Now we adopted another one from our neighbors. They have a rooster (we don't ) and their large rooster was being very hard on...
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    hens not laying

    I might add, they seem like they totally forgot about egg making -- they have gone silent, no egg song, very little sound period, not spending time in the nest boxes.
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    hens not laying

    I am in the same situation. We have six laying hens (3 Americauna and 3 buff orpington). They did hatch in 2017 and did well until recently, with some slow down in the shortest days of winter. They are molting, with tons of feathers all over. But this process started in mid July (!), before...
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    Pictures of our chickens

    Here's a few pictures of our chickens, when we got them in March and a few months later. I will try to get a picture of the sickly looking one (see the diseases thread) when I can.
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    one of our chickens looking sickly, with pale comb

    P.S. I should have said, the sickly looking one seems to be doing fine behaviorally. She has good energy, is not lethargic, and seems to be eating fine as near as I can tell. But it does seem like her nostrils are perhaps enlarged...
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    one of our chickens looking sickly, with pale comb

    Hi. We have six backyard chickens that we got as one month old babies in March. So far they have been doing fine. They are three Buff Orpingtons and three Ameraucanas. But recently (maybe a couple weeks or so) one of the Orpingtons has been looking sickly. Her comb is very pale, she is...
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    new member in TN/GA

    Hi. I am in the Chattanooga, TN area, just across the line in Georgia. We got six one-month old chickens in March and are keeping them in our backyard. We got the chickens just because we thought it would be good to be producing some of our own protein (the eggs-- we don't ever plan to eat...
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