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    Chicken with Bald Butt

    Oh, and my chickens are free range during the day in our enclosed backyard. Although, our yard isn't very lush. We do, however, provide a healthy amount of treats.
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    Chicken with Bald Butt

    It would be nice if all it is is plucking. I gave her a warm epsom salt bath this evening - that was...exciting. She was none too happy. I also put on a pair of gloves and checked for blockage - none that I could tell. I held her in a towel for a bit to try to get her dry before I put her...
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    Chicken with Bald Butt

    Thanks I'll try to keep an eye out for it when they're on the roost at night. I guess with chickens you almost have to employ the 'do everything until something works' school of thought. We are in a very urban area, so no other true farmers around that can provide help. I appreciate any...
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    Chicken with Bald Butt

    Thanks. Yes, I've read that thread and numerous others as well. I feel like I have so much information now, but no solid answers you know? It seems like it could be nothing or something serious. I am leaning toward possible internal layer due to the soft shelled eggs we've found. I will...
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    Chicken with Bald Butt

    I got her at almost a year old. She and the other one I got at the same time, were both properly quarantined for 30 days prior to introduction to my original hens. I got them in mid-March 2012. Quarantined until mid-April, and so they've all been together for only about one month now. I don't...
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    Chicken with Bald Butt

    Need some help with a fairly new chicken who has a bald butt. As of yesterday, we didn't notice any feathers missing. We had a party last night and the kids were running around in the backyard, so not sure if she is stressed and perhaps plucked her bum? We use DE on the flock, so I don't...
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    Lethargic with Green Diarrhea

    Hi, I have a chicken with the same exact symptoms. She just started showing symptoms today. I let her stay outside most of the day and I stayed out there much of the day to watch her and make sure she didn't get too badly picked on. I've now separated her and provided her with plain yogurt...
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    Shaunachs Chicken Coop

    Home On The Urban We live in the City of San Diego, in an older neighborhood where most of the homes were built in the 1930's and 1940's. It's a cool, artsy, hip (dare I say slightly hippie) neighborhood. We are smack in the center of everything - very urban indeed. But, the lifestyle of many...
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    Pecking Order

    Do chickens (like dogs consider its owner the alpha dog for example) consider humans to be at the top of the pecking order? Yesterday, I was checking my birds for mites and putting some DE on them. Two of the hens are fine with us petting them and picking them up, the third one not so much...
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    ENDED Coop Page Contest 2011 - Win BYC Store Gift Certificate

    Hi, Just created our page at: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=91447 I imagine I will be adding many pictures and fun stuff in the coming months as we live with our new girls. -Shauna
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    Going On Vacation - Should I Have The Person Close & Open Hen House

    The coop itself is a tad over 4x4 (16 square feet). The run adds an additional 4x5 (20 square feet). So, throughout the day while we're at work they are in 36 square feet of space of moving around space. When we come home we open up the door to let them roam freely, although they rarely want...
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