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    My chicken is barfing yellow liquid non-stop and has liquidy yellow stool. She's having trouble breathing. Why can I do???

    I started bawling. She might have been really sick but I'm the one who caused her death and in one of the worst possible ways. You can imagine how I felt. I know the bloat caused her breathing problems but I wasn't think about what it would do if it was really pushing on her lungs. It was a...
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    Emergency, chicken having trouble breathing!

    😢 I'm so sorry. You did the best you could for her and that's a sign of a good mama. Take care.
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    My chicken is barfing yellow liquid non-stop and has liquidy yellow stool. She's having trouble breathing. Why can I do???

    I'm praying for your girl too. It's great that you have a vet you can bring her to right away. I live in Maryland and there's been bird flue going through the area. Although cases have been confined to a ways east of us, many vets have stopped seeing birds, including pet birds, all together...
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    New to Brahmas, first roo ever?

    That's a pullet.
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    Light Brahmas 8 weeks

    I believe it's a pullet. I have Light Brahmas and hatch several per year but I have had a couple where I would keep going back and forth on sex. Luckily both times they came to be pullets. Anyway, here are some of mine at 8 weeks. My cockerels will start growing their wattles much earlier than...
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    Chicken Research

    I was going to write an article about my own experiences on how my chickens helped me with my depression. I'm glad I searched to see if there were any articles already on that subject or if someone was already researching it. I don't feel that it's right for me to write something when I know...
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    First time rooster owner!

    Between me hatching 7 chicks of my own and buying what I thought were 6 sexed pullets I ended up with a total of 5 cockerels. (Luckily I knew of someone that would take them.) I raised them all and they were sweethearts. Puberty struck at 4 mo. so i didn't waste time giving 3 to my friend and...
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    Rooster starting to get aggressive

    Apparently there are as many different ways to try to tame roosters. Here's an article by Bitchin' Chickens that helped me. This article talks about why a rooster most likely becomes a "bully" when interacting with people. In my case I actually tried this on a rooster that had what you could...
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    Cross Beak

    @rosemarythyme Just a quick update. I filed Bitty's beak to the point where you couldn't even tell there was a problem anymore just by looking at it. But the big surprise is that even now, after 2 months, there's not sign that she even had a problem! Even when she opens her mouth her jaw looks...
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    My Cockerel, Bruiser

    And this is Bruiser's father, Alek. Notice the likeness. 🤣
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    Re-Home: Light Brahma Cockerel

    I have a beautiful Light Brahma Cockerel (Baron), just under 5 mo., that needs a good home. I'm keeping his brother Bruiser who is already the dominant and figured 1 cockerel was enough. They are 2 of 7 from my March hatch. I live near Frederick, MD. If someone decides they want him I could...
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    My Cockerel, Bruiser

    I decided to compare Bruiser at 2 weeks and Bruiser at just under 5 months. The only difference is he got bigger. 😂
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    Melatonin Lowers Testosterone? (The true thread)

    Yeah. I figured I'd wait for that. I'll go ahead and ask her. Thanks.
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    Melatonin Lowers Testosterone? (The true thread)

    I have a 1 year old rooster that is too aggressive with my hens. He won't dance or call them for food, he just sneaks up and jumps on them as they scream. I know this is unacceptable but I raised him and we are both still attached to each other. I've become so desperate that I got him the...
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    Hurt Chicken

    Welcome! Do the other chickens excessively pick on her? If not and her bum leg doesn't seem to bother her or prevent her from enjoying life I wouldn't worry about it. She's laying eggs, not seeming stressed... I'd say she's still enjoying a chicken life other hens' would be jealous of Give...
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    Cross Beak

    UPDATE First I want to thank @rosemarythyme for everything. I want to show you and everyone else how Bitty looks after having her beak clipped. Compare these to my original pics. One question. I read that cross-beaks or crooked beaks won't be able to eat pellets but must be fed crumbles due...
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    Light Brahma or Mix

    ...a breeder but there are none near me. I started breeding my hens not to sell but to keep flock number up as I lose my older ones. There's no way I'm breeding anyone from this group. They are definitely of very poor quality. I mean one of the pullets has a crooked beak. *See my post Cross Beak .
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    Light Brahma or Mix

    I have always had Light Brahmas and normally incubate and hatch my own eggs. Since most of my adult hens are just over 3 years old, and there is no way I’m getting rid of them when they stop laying, I decided to start a second flock so I decided to incubate my own eggs and got a few pullets from...
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    Cross Beak

    Thank you so much. I really appreciate you helping me. Bitty appreciates too even if she doesn't know it.
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    Cross Beak

    Yep, that's what I got them for. New Brahma blood. Now there's no way I'm going to breed them. Oh well. They're still sweethearts. I'll just hope the eggs will be different enough that I can tell them apart.
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