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    Egg bound hen

    Thank you
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    Egg bound hen

    Thank you
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    Egg bound hen

    I think one of our hens is egg bound. She has not laid an egg in days. For the last three days her legs have been spread wide and she slowly walks like a penguin. I checked her vent and it was a little dirty with a pale yellow discharge. Today I soaked her rear end in warm water for 10 minutes...
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    Should I let a broody hen raise chicks?

    We did that last year and currently have a broody hens raising four chicks. We live in the mountains of south west Virginia where it's cool. Abby, our broody hen is keeping her chicks warm. At the same time the chicks are adapting to the cooler temperature. We have a heat lamp in their outdoor...
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    Thank you so much
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    Sorry, I just sent the one picture. I just attached an enlargement of "Thing2" I think it is a Cockerel too. I'm hoping it's tail feathers develope. Thank you so much.
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    Returning

    My wife and I have been raising chickens for about six years now. We started when we were living in the suburbs in the outskirts of Raleigh NC. Four years ago we baught a small farm in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia and have since retired. We started with a bakers dozed of chicks and now...
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    I enlarged one of the pictures, this is "Thing1" the other bird without tail feathers is "Thing2".
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    Thank you. Our other offspring of same breeds (Rhode Island red and Wyandotte) is a day younger but does not have tail feathers. I'm hoping he grows some.
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    Thanks.
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    I thought that I posted 4. I'll add more thanks
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    I thought that I posted four pictures. I'll add the rest to the thread. Thanks.
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    One of our hens hatched thesonths ago. The father is a Rhode Island red and we believe the hen a gold laced Wyandotte. One of the chickens has dveloped some nice tail feathers like that of a rooster. The other chicken is much stockier but has no tail feathers yet. I'm guessing that we have two...
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    Aggressive rooster

    We have two roosters and twenty-two hens. Each rooster has their preferred hens and visa-versa. The rooster in question is a Rhode Island Red named Redman. He is very rough when mating his hens and has nearly removed all of the feathers from their saddles. We had tried chicken saddles for the...
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    broody hen raising adopted chicks

    One of our Araucana hens , "Smoke" had gone broody several weeks ago and was sitting on 8 eggs, that we gradually switched with ceramic eggs. We were looking to get six chicks in the spring and decided to take advantage of Smoke broodiness. After a doing a lot of research we decided to wait...
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