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    How much sneezing is considered abnormal?

    I have heard my chickens sneeze every once in awhile - maybe once or twice every half hour. I'm wondering if I should be concerned or not. How much sneezing is too much? They have no other symptoms that I can see other than my Buff Orpington's crop wasn't full like it normally feels, although...
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    I just want to confirm my 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes are girls

    Great thanks!
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    I just want to confirm my 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes are girls

    Yay thanks! Do you think my calculation of their age is correct? How old are they when they get their wing feathers?
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    I just want to confirm my 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes are girls

    I think they're about 11 weeks old. I got them April 19th and they had feathered wings but the rest of their body was still down, so I think they were maybe a week old already. They are supposed to be pullets and I just wanted to make sure. What do ya think? [/img] [/img] [/img] [/img] I...
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    Is Fish Breath a boy or girl?

    You tricked me! I was curious to find out how your chicken got the name Fish Breath.
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    Name your quietest chicken breed - Poll

    I only have 3 different breeds - Buff Orpington, Black Australorp and Silver-Laced Wyandotte. The Wyandottes are still making baby noises as they're only about 8 weeks old, so I don't know how loud they're going to be yet. I'd have to say the Australorps are the quietest. They don't squawk...
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    Coop window coverings to keep noisy squawking hen sound in?

    Our neighbors are very nice. Nobody has complained and they probably wouldn't anyway. I just don't want to disturb anyone that early in the morning. We're building a new bigger coop so maybe I'll plant some shrubs around it. In the meantime, I'll just have to keep letting them out super...
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    Coop window coverings to keep noisy squawking hen sound in?

    One of my hens is super squawky, her voice really carries. A Buff Orpington. When she wants out she wants out immediately! Brat. She is right up there with the noisy crows living in the neighborhood. I used plastic tarp in the wintertime and that seemed to help with the noise but now that...
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    Coop window coverings to keep noisy squawking hen sound in?

    Now that it is warming up and my neighbors will most likely have their windows open I need to find something to muffle the noise from the chickens in the morning at the crack of dawn. Is there anything out there that will provide ventilation and keep the noise contained? Or maybe if I just...
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    Placing chicks under broody hen

    Thanks for the replies. I did try it at night but she wasn't asleep when we put them under her. I think she was still adjusting to me bringing her inside the house yesterday. I brought her outside this morning to poop, eat and drink. She went back to the coop and sat in her old nest with no...
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    Placing chicks under broody hen

    One of my hens has been broody, but we have no rooster. I got 2 chicks from the farm store and I tried to place them under her last night. I removed the two eggs she was sitting on at the same time. It didn't work out very well. She got off the nest and tried to fly up out of the box I set...
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    Panting and Lethargic Hen - SHE DIED.....

    I'm so sorry for the loss of your girl. This same thing happened to me yesterday morning. Fine the day before and gone within a couple hours of finding her in the morning the next day.
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    My head chicken Sunny died this morning from I don't know what ???

    Thanks Sam. I'm sorry about your Silkie girl I hope your other girl is ok.
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    My head chicken Sunny died this morning from I don't know what ???

    Thanks Missi. These are my first chickens and Sunny was my first loss. I thought she would grow into an old lady here with the rest of the girls. This sucks!
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    My head chicken Sunny died this morning from I don't know what ???

    She was a 13 month old Buff Orpington. I got her when she was about a week old from a local farmer who gets his chicks from a hatchery. The chicks were vaccinated. I feed organic layer crumble and feed a handful of corn and sunflower seeds twice a day as a treat, along with occasional yogurt...
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    Free rangeing eggs

    Mine would lay under one particular bush. I then created a box for them to use outside and some would use that and some would use the bush. Then one day they just all started laying in the nest box inside their coop - I think they were about 8 months old when they finally figured it out. I...
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    So I rescued a Leghorn Hen....Need Help with her "issue."

    Maybe check "vent gleet". It sounds like this may be the problem and I've heard the smell is horrible.
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    Am I crazy? Does this look fertile to you?

    My girls' eggs have this same spot in them sometimes. I know they are all girls and there are no roosters. No visitors either. Your chickens all look like hens to me.
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    Newby shopping list

    Congratulations on the new babies! You're going to have so much fun with them The only thing I can think of to add to this is for you to make sure the heating lamp is very well secured so it doesn't fall or get knocked into the bedding and possibly start a fire. Oh, and make sure the...
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    speckled egg - who's layin' it?

    I have two Buff Orpingtons and they both lay lightly speckled eggs. One lays eggs with white speckles and the other lays eggs with brown speckles.
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