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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    Mount View Roosters!! Here are also a few blurry pictures that I have taken a few weeks ago:
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    Tired of feeding freeloaders

    Here is a picture of a feral rabbit and wild pigeons sharing the food we gave to our chickens. Although in this case, I didn't really mind because leftover bread isn't exactly good for my chickens.
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    Tired of feeding freeloaders

    Hope it lasts ... I mean squirrels are intelligent animals, eventually they will learn .. 🫢
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    Tired of feeding freeloaders

    Is it possible to be around or nearby when feeding your chickens? We usually only feed our free range chickens a couple of times a day, while we are nearby to deter the advances of wildlife. Each feeding sessions only last about 5 - 20 minutes, sometimes with multiple feed stations, until all...
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    My beautiful Rooster

    Your rooster is a beautiful boy. He could be a silkie mix, silkies have 5 toes. Here is my silkie mix rooster:
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    Is my rooster getting aggressive?

    I have a rooster flock, some of the roosters like to follow me around for food and safety. I pet and hug my head rooster occasionally, he is okay with that. There is only 1 aggressive bird in the flock, and he is at the bottom of the pecking order. He was the one that I handled the most...
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    Chicken shaking head at show

    Sometimes my chickens shake their heads when they recognise the noise that I make, i.e. when calling their names or making similar sound as my chickens calls. So I guess it's likely to be a reaction to the sound produced in the show. If you are interested to find out, you can play different...
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    Coop camera

    You can use your phone or a laptop to test the wifi strength inside the coop, it wouldn't be exact but can be a good estimate. If you really care, test it in some harsh conditions, like when you have window closed and there is heavy rain outside - that's when the signals can get weak.
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    Anyone feed their chickens asparagus beans AKA long beans?

    I fed a small handful of long beans (chopped up) at a time to my chickens, the birds were fine after had eaten them. To be safe, it's best to boil the beans before serving them to the chickens, and the total amount of long beans served not exceed 1/3 of their feed.
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    Leg Splayed Backward

    Can you take more pictures, it is hard to see from that one single photo. Also, it's probably more appropriate to post this under Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures sub-forum.
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    Ugliest egg I ever saw!

    I think it is a cool egg, just special in it's own way! :)
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    Rooster attacked for the first time

    I have 4 roosters, only 1 attacks and he likes to sneaky attack on me from behind. The other three are fine. The head rooster has never attacked me, he is a sweet little boy, likes to follow me around. Interestingly, the one that attacks me is the lowest on the pecking order. A lot of the...
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    How intense is your pecking order?

    Giving your birds a lot of more spaces and things to do will generally alleviate pecking order problems. Once I had to confine my 5 hens in a 5 square meters coop for a few days, it's heart-wrenching watching some of the low ranking birds pecked and forced into a corner. Nowadays I free range...
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    Molting or something else?

    For mites and lice, you should check her belly/vent area, that's where mites/lice like to multiply. Has it been a hot summer, how's coop's ventilation? My big structured Australorp rooster lost some feathers last summer, when early afternoon temperature frequently reached above 32C/90F .
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    No tails and some bald backs and other spots.

    For mites and lice, you can check their belly/vent area, if there is an infestation, usually there are mite/lice eggs and live insects. For protein, if feed with higher protein level is hard to obtain, mealworm, fishmeal, meat scraps will do the job. Some people give their hens cooked eggs. I...
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    Open Contest 2026 BYC Calendar Photo Contest - We Need Your Pictures!

    Maybe it's the effect of chicken maths .. :lau:oops:
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    Multi-pronged approach for mites

    Are you sure this is not from over-mating? My hens had problem with mites a couple of months ago, but the feather loss was more around the vent area, where mites like to multiply.
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    Fowl pox

    Good to hear that they are all healed now. I didn't keep mine in quarantine after he has fully recovered - it's a highly contagious disease, if the others were to get it, they would have got it by the time that the last one has fully recovered.
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    Chickens in nature

    Free ranging rooster flock on a windy day:
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    Chickens in nature

    If you are talking about him: Unfortunately, I don't know his exact breed as I bought him as an egg, given to my broody hen and he was the only one that hatched. He has 5 toes on each foot, some of the other eggs were supposed to be pure silky, so I assume that he is some kind of silky mix...
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