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    redness and swollen toes, what is wrong??? *** pictures

    Checked her over real good today, reddness has nearly gone, so it's just the toe joints without the scales on them and those look ok nothing worse on them. I checked for any signs of bumble foot and still everything looks good there. I'll just checking her very day for any changes. Thanks for...
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    redness and swollen toes, what is wrong??? *** pictures

    She has been the same. The weather here has turned cold and extremely windy so they have had to stay in their run and coop. I have not done any soaks cause of the temps. Keeping a close eye on her for any changes good or bad
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    redness and swollen toes, what is wrong??? *** pictures

    When I touch the swollen looking areas she does pull her foot away. She walks normal and sits fine. Everything looks the same today no changes. I don't see any new scales coming in. I just noticed this yesterday, so she couldn't have been like this for very long. I don't see any swelling in the...
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    redness and swollen toes, what is wrong??? *** pictures

    I have a barred rock that I noticed has some redness between the toes, and on one foot she has some swelling at joints. I looked at bottom of feet for bumble foot, and I don't see anything like that. Maybe leg mites????? I'm new to chickens so I'm not sure what it is and what to do. here is a...
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    chickens not laying in top row of nesting boxes.

    Ok thanks for the replies. Nobody is getting hurt and no damaged eggs, so I'll just leave em alone.
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    chickens not laying in top row of nesting boxes.

    I have 14 mixed flock of EE,RIR,BR chickens. Large coop with 6 nesting boxes, three on bottom ,three on top. They do free range all day, but all but 1 come into coop to lay. They fight over the bottom three. I have golf balls in the top three, removed the golf balls from the bottoms, in hopes...
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    I found a hidden nest

    From what I read on this forum, 1 box for every 4 chickens. I have 14 pullets and 6 nesting boxes. 5 are laying right now and they all favor the bottom 3 boxes. She is laying in the boxes now. She isn't the smartest bulb in the bunch, I think she has it figures out now.
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    I found a hidden nest

    I thought all my girls were laying in the nesting boxes, but I was wrong. Found one of my EE'S nesting under some foliage up against house, when she left I looked and about had a heart attack! 17 hidden eggs. She isn't broody, she just started laying , but obviously not in the boxes.
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    My poor EE Arrow eggs started getting big, and I mean Big! Double yolks. This one I got this morning and it's even bigger then the one two days ago. Poor thing her egg next to a large store bought one
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    For some reason CoCo has started laying her eggs on the grill. She was laying in nesting boxes. The two that have been laying in nesting boxes stopped. I had to make some changes. They do not like the mix of hay and shavings, so I cleaned all out and put in only shavings, also I painted the...
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    They are 22 weeks.
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    EE #3, OwLee, laid her first egg today. It's a big one.
  13. IndiesChix

    Rudy or Ruby ??? RIR Gender Confusion

    Ok pullet, but I think I'll still call her Rudy. LOL
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    Rudy or Ruby ??? RIR Gender Confusion

    No it acts like a hen. The only other difference are her chicken sounds, kinda like a deep and she is noisier then the other RIR. But no crowing.
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    Rudy or Ruby ??? RIR Gender Confusion

    See that's what I originally thought. I'm kinda disappointed, a small part of me wanted it to be a Rudy.
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    Rudy or Ruby ??? RIR Gender Confusion

    I have been reading and reading everything about gender ID on RIRs. And I still not sure about one of mine. They are at 14 weeks and about 2 weeks ago I noticed the one in question having bigger comb and wattles and redder then the other girls in her flock. So I'm thinking cockeral but I don't...
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    Last night when locking down the coop I noticed some yolk and poop mix on floor at door. This morning I found a broken no shelled egg under the roost. Looks like we have another EE getting tiny the laying business, just don't know who yet. Our one EE Coco has been laying every day and arrow is...
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    What Have Your Free Range Chickens Tore Up ???

    My garden bed just have some bird netting wrapped around them. Keeps them out, very now and then one will figure out to go up and underneath but then they panic cause they can't figure out how to get back out. Lol I planted climbing roses bushes and had to use some strong fencing to keep them...
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    Free range laying question

    My EE this morning was by herself and looking for a place to lay. She was the one that laid on front porch. I coached her into the coop, they don't like me to pick them up, it took some convincing but she finally started checking out the boxes and is now laying in there, waiting for her second egg.
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    Free range laying question

    I'm dealing with this issue right now. I have two EES that have just laid their first eggs yesterday. One laid hers on the front porch. I knew she was going to do so ,cause she has been hanging out there by herself for a couple of days. The other one, I noticed was hanging out in another out...
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