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    Baby chick emergency

    We brought in a bowl of eggs yesterday and had them sitting in the foyer last night. The hen that had been sitting on them no longer had much interest since two of them hatched last week. Last night, we heard a chirping and one of them hatched! In the past, our hens (all free-ranging) have...
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    Cedar & Chickens

    Our birds are free-range except for our favorite rooster and his girlfriend. They're in a large locked cage for their own protection from local kids who have been trying to steal him for a cockfighting ring. I think he gets bored from time to time b/c there are only a few things in the cage --...
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    Deformed faces - baby chicks

    A free-ranging hen ("Sylvia") spends a lot of time in our yard along with her 6 chicks. She's pretty much part of the family by now & interacts every day with our other birds. Last week, we noticed that one of her chicks had some kind of deformities or growths on its face, which we hadn't...
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    Baby with broken leg == Follow-up

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/baby-with-broken-leg.1631990/page-4#post-27914245 I started the above conversation in July, when we rescued an abandoned chick in our yard that was being attacked by a hen when the chick got too close to the hen's babies. Little "Cassidy" (as in...
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    Heavy breathing hen

    One of our hens has, for the last few days, started breathing rapidly and with her beak open. Not always, but often. Is this something to be worried about? I brushed it off at first as merely indicating stress, b/c not too much earlier she had been the unwilling love partner of one of our...
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    Baby with broken leg

    Yesterday an apparently abandoned baby chick, maybe a week old?, wandered into our yard. We think maybe it got lost when it didnt' follow its mother closely enough in a neighbor's yard. Two of our hens attacked it when it got too close to their own chicks and although we rescued it from...
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    Can anyone identify this young rooster

    This little guy wandered into our yard, we're guessing b/c he was chased out of his flock when he got old enough to be perceived as a threat by the alpha rooster. It looks like he's here to stay, having found a nighttime roosting spot in one of our trees. He's a wonderful little bird, very...
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    Removing eggs from broody hen

    One of our hens disappeared a few weeks ago. We just found her the other day, hiding behind a fence, sitting on about a dozen eggs. She rarely leaves her private little nest and seems to be a poster girl for broodiness. We don't want any new birds, and it would be a problem to have to raise a...
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    Chickens transmitting disease to humans?

    Several weeks ago, 2 of our free-rangers disappeared. Two others showed up the next morning in bad shape, eyes closed, barely able to move. No sign of injuries, not even missing feathers, or parasites. At first we suspected a predator -- our neighbor has a vicious chicken-killing dog & an...
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    Chattering beak?

    I'm not sure exactly how to describe this, but our pet rooster has lately been "chattering" his beak -- rapidly opening & closing it as though trying to chew rapidly. He's also been a little less responsive than usual, although that could be due to other factors (like violent weather) the last...
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    Lost in Space Debbie

    Just out of idle curiosity, can anybody identify the breed of the talented actress that portrays Debbie the Chicken in the Netflix series "Lost in Space"?
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    Chicken Toe Fetish

    OK, this is a strange one. Our Australorp rooster has a strange fascination with toes. When one of us sits out with him & takes our shoes off, he walks up to our toes, positions his head an inch or two away, and seems to go into a trance, motionless, just staring at the toes. I can even tap...
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    New chicken owner in Oahu

    Just want to introduce myself, and ask for an ID of our hen. I live in rural Oahu, where chickens roam the streets. The roosters often fall prey to kids who capture them for cockfighting rings, which are popular here, despite being illegal. We never planned to raise chickens, but one day, a...
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