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    Hen tail down

    Our hen (Sparra) molted a month or so ago. A few days ago, she started holding her tail down. She seems mostly normal otherwise and doesn't want to be picked up (also normal for her). Seen some posts about being possibly egg bound, but I don't think she's currently in laying condition. All our...
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    Lethargic Chicken

    I'm not sure. I forgot to check it yesterday, but it had water on Friday, I think. Regardless, Penny is able to escape the side run and go over to our pond, which she did yesterday. So I think she drank on Saturday even if the tank was empty. It IS possible she hurt herself doing so, as her...
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    Lethargic Chicken

    Our Easter Egger (Penny) was suddenly lethargic today. She was still on the roost at 12pm and I had to lift her down. Their water was empty, which I refilled, and our other four birds happily drank, but Penny kind of ignored it, even after I wet her beak. I gave her some water from an...
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    Injured Wing? (Possibly pulled muscle)

    I think better. My local chicken supply store said to keep an eye on her and watch. She's still not flying like normal, but she is doing all the other normal chicken things. I put a milk crate in the coop so it'd be easier to get on the roost.
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    Injured Wing? (Possibly pulled muscle)

    Our easter egger (Penny) is still a pullet and normally a pretty strong flier. (We have found her on our house roof.) She also routinely flies onto my arm. But yesterday and today, I saw her trying to hop onto objects about 2 feet off the ground and missing. She also struggled to get onto the...
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    Double-checking our (probably) girls

    Here are some Penny pics from a couple days ago. The good news is, she did not find the roof particularly interesting and came back down quickly. These aren't the best pictures of her saddle feathers. But they are very blunt. She has the shortest tail of all our chickens. She also has almost no...
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    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    We haven't lost any to predators (knock on wood), but a hawk had a near miss on one of our girls about a month ago. My wife managed to throw off its descent enough to save the day!
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    Double-checking our (probably) girls

    So, we have three (hopefully) pullets who will be 3 months old on the 6th. (Hatched April 6th) They are: - Penny, easter egger - Gabby, silver-laced wyandotte - Freckles, speckled sussex Gabby also likes to sit on my arm. I didn't get a good one of Penny tonight, as she went to bed early...
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    Pullet/Hen Introductions

    Yes to both questions. But I'd feel pretty bad keeping the chicks in there 24/7. It's a bit cramped for all day, and they're used to going outside every day. (We've been letting them out daily since they were about 2 weeks old in this cool chicken tent thing we bought for them.) As previously...
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    Pullet/Hen Introductions

    Hello! So our little chicks (Freckles, Gabby, and Penny) are six weeks old now, out-grown their tub in our living room, and we're working on moving them to the outside coop. We've been doing slow yard introductions (at a distance, at first), and then moved up to all our birds in the yard at...
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    Comment by 'Swiftbow' in article 'The Old Fence Coop'

    Sorry, LONG time on responding to this! That was Slush, he was a barnyard mix. He also turned out to be a rooster (as did both of our chicks!), which was sad, because he was a really friendly one, but we're not allowed to have them in the city. We did find him a new home out in the county.
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    Ended 11th Annual EHAL - Contest #3: Cutest Baby Fowl - Win a Brinsea Incubator!

    Black Silver Laced Wyandotte (Gabby). She doesn't like it when her hatchmates take naps, and wakes up the whole house until they come back out. Easter Egger (as yet unnamed) and Calico Shorthair (Scamp) watching in the background Both photos taken yesterday! We also have a Speckled Sussex...
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    Comment by 'Swiftbow' in article 'Meet 10 Rare Breeds You Should Consider Keeping'

    Left out Dominiques! (aka, Pilgrim Fowl) We have one, she's been a great bird.
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    Should we be concerned?

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    Should we be concerned?

    She died in the night. It's kind of hard to tell, but her crop seems normal. But there's some kind of reddish blockage in her vent. Was it egg block?
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