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    Advice on telling if have roosters and how to stop pecking baby chick and boredom busters for the chicks

    It’s hard to tell the gender while they are still young. The first few signs that it may be rooster are tail feathers, crowing and or growing noticeably faster then the others aka the hens. It’s different depending on the breed. I had two chicks that I knew were females based on their pattern...
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    Something is hanging out of my chickens butt!!!

    A prolapsed was one of my first thoughts. I also don’t know a ton about bird anatomy so I tried to google and ask around what people thought it might be. When I looked more into what some people thought it might of been it didn’t match very well with what it looked like and how she was acting...
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    Something is hanging out of my chickens butt!!!

    We made sure she was dry when we put her back outside. It does get cold at night here but she wasn’t moving up into the coop she was staying in the run. I sat her in the coop where we have a heater and she didn’t leave where I set her down because I found her dead this morning. I’m not sure what...
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    Disease? Egg problem? I’m not sure.

    Yesterday I found something sticking out of my roughly nine month old hen. She hadn’t started laying yet. We were advised to put her in warm water and try and ease it out. We set her in the warm water bath and the mass completely dissolved. She was still acting sickly last night when I checked...
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    Something is hanging out of my chickens butt!!!

    Last night she was still acting the same. We found her dead this morning in the coop. :(
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    Something is hanging out of my chickens butt!!!

    Update Update: We put her in warm water and the mass completely dissolved. Lots of poop. She was most likely constipated. We have her with a towel just sitting in a box for now we’ll move her back outside later.
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    Something is hanging out of my chickens butt!!!

    She hasn’t laid yet but she could start any time now. So it’s very possible thank you!
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    Something is hanging out of my chickens butt!!!

    There’s something hanging out of my almost one year old hens butt. There’s no blood and it doesn’t seem to be soft or fleshy. She seems to be sleeping off and on a lot lately and when I set her down she fell over a little. It doesn’t look like she’s cleaning herself much either. She was eating...
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