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    Rooster mates too aggressively

    Thank you! He doesn’t attack us unless we agitate the hens. I’ve only gotten attacked once. We have never hurt them but for example when we were trying to herd them into the coop once and they didn’t understand what we were trying to.
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    Rooster mates too aggressively

    Thank you for your advice, we are thinking about it. The thing is, he’s never been this aggressive before but during winter when it was single digits here he had pretty bad frostbite on his comb and some on his waddles so we had to keep him inside for a while, but we brought him back out on...
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    Rooster mates too aggressively

    Hi! I have a flock of 6 ten month old chickens; 5 hens and 1 rooster. Nearly all of the hens have bald spots on their backs and heads and one has a wound under her wing, not sure why but possibly the rooster? None of the other hens are wounded besides feather loss. I have previously posted about...
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    Impacted Crop But Still Pooping

    When we checked her crop in the morning it wasn’t full, but wasn’t empty either. My sister says she felt grit particles in it and it was between hard and doughy. About her vent, we first noticed that she laid a bloody egg and her vent was all red and inflamed, her dropping were caked to the...
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    Impacted Crop But Still Pooping

    Thanks!
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    Impacted Crop But Still Pooping

    Hi! I have a 10 month old chicken who wasn’t doing too well a couple days ago. She was lethargic and puffed up, didn’t want to eat or drink, but still managed to move around with the rest of her flock and even scratched in the dirt a little. (We also noticed something wrong with her vent but it...
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    Vent Issue

    Thank you so much, I did notice that after the rooster mated with a hen, that one hen with perfect feathers would come and peck them. Should I do anything for the hen with the vent problem? I thought I should at least wash it or something but my dad thinks I should leave it, so the blood clots...
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    Vent Issue

    Hi! I noticed a smear of blood on a particularly large egg this morning, and as my chickens are fairly young (around 10 months old) I thought it was fine. It has also never happened before; this was the first time we’ve seen blood on an egg. However, I checked my hens just to be sure and one of...
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    Bald spots above ears

    Hi, I was looking at my flock today and I notice that one of my hens (10 months old) has a bald patch above her ears on both sides. She’s the only chicken we’ve seen bald spots on and after watching the flock for a while, no one was pecking at her. The rooster mated with her, and she just laid...
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    Rooster making screaming noises while dust bathing

    LOL thank you so much!!
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    Rooster making screaming noises while dust bathing

    My 10 month old rooster was dust bathing with another hen when he started making noises that sounded like screams. Other than that he didn’t seem to be distressed because he was moving in the dirt as usual. This is the first time I have heard this noise coming from him, does anyone know what it...
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    Frost bitten and bleeding comb, please help!

    Thank you
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    Frost bitten and bleeding comb, please help!

    It’s a small coop but the roof is raised a couple inches and there are is a cross ventilation hole by the top too. It gets really cold here though, in the teens or single digits at night.
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    Frost bitten and bleeding comb, please help!

    Thank you so much, I actually made an account just for this question. It will be cold outside for the next couple days/weeks so is it safe to leave him outside or should I bring him inside until he completely heals or when the weather gets warmer?
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    Frost bitten and bleeding comb, please help!

    Hi, I have an 8 month old rooster and his comb has frostbite. I’ve kept him inside for several weeks and it has gotten better. It was 45 degrees today ( considered warm at this time of winter where I live) so I thought I would take him out to the rest of the flock. I noticed some drops of blood...
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