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    Just a little silkie sketch

    I’ve gotten my sketchbook back out recently and done a few quick chicken sketches, nothing fancy, just trying to get better with proportions and trying out some gesture drawing type stuff. I love drawing but can get hung up on small details so I’m trying out a looser style :) I just looked up...
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    My poor, naked hen 😅

    This pic was too funny not to share! This is Butter, and she’s going through her first adult molt and dropped almost all her feathers at once. I couldn’t get a front or rear pic but she looks so silly with a naked butt full of pin feathers. I felt so bad for her when they first all fell out...
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    Help with necropsy pictures? Possible fatty liver hemorrhagic syndrome? ***WARNING***GRAPHIC***

    What would cause that?
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    Help with necropsy pictures? Possible fatty liver hemorrhagic syndrome? ***WARNING***GRAPHIC***

    I have already disposed of her, I’m sorry.
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    Help with necropsy pictures? Possible fatty liver hemorrhagic syndrome? ***WARNING***GRAPHIC***

    Just wanted to add, I feed them a mix of kalmbach henhouse reserve and the kalmbach plumage feed (idk what it’s actually called). I don’t think it could have been from mycotoxins, everyone else is fine and the food is kept completely dry and is eaten and replaced approx every 30 days.
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    Help with necropsy pictures? Possible fatty liver hemorrhagic syndrome? ***WARNING***GRAPHIC***

    Hello everyone, I came home this afternoon and found one of my hens dead in the run :( It was extremely sudden, she hadn’t been showing any signs of sickness. No loss in appetite, no lowered energy, no respiratory signs, didn’t feel skinny, normal poop, just came home and found her. I spend a...
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    Almost had a heart attack tucking the girls in last night!!

    *disclaimer* bloody pics, but no actual harm done thank god Every night I do a head count and tuck my girls in and get in some bedtime snuggles before closing up the coop. Last night I went in, looked to the left where the nesting boxes are and saw my big fat chantecler, butter, roosting on the...
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    The story of Chestnut and Buttercup ❤️

    Are they Delawares? I have two Delaware hens that are a year and a half old. We got them as little chicks and they’ve been so wonderful. Mines names are Willow and Tinkie. Tinkie was always the most outgoing and friendly. I was sure she was going to be a rooster but I was wrong! By the end of...
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    Hen got a little too excited 😅

    😂😂😂 apparently! Several of my chickens do this, I have to be very careful where I squeeze!
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    Extremely tiny preening gland???

    Good to know! That kind of makes sense, she’s just a little over a year old and hasn’t had a big molt yet
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    Extremely tiny preening gland???

    Nope, all hens. It’s not really her “back” per se, it’s her fluffier feathers as her tail starts
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    Extremely tiny preening gland???

    How are their feathers?? My hens feathers have always been gorgeous and then recently they’ve changed to looking stringy and dull (just the back ones, her head and neck and chest are all still really pretty)
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    Extremely tiny preening gland???

    I’ll try to get some today! She’s my least friendly chicken but hopefully I can get her to stay still long enough to get a few.
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    Extremely tiny preening gland???

    Hello! I have a buff chantecler that is just a little over a year old. She has always had gorgeous, glossy, healthy looking feathers but lately I’ve noticed her feathers down her back look really stringy and oily. They aren’t being bitten at or pulled out, they’re just stringy. I might try to...
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    Chicken Breed Behaviors from Experience!

    That doesn’t include the many variations we also call them lol. Tinkie Winkie and Stinky Tinkie are my favorites The one we call lemongrab has that name because she sounds like an adventure time character with the same name, if you're not familiar I’d look up a vid of him screaming “DUNGEONS!”...
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