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    Weird Yellow Lumps expelled 2 times- maroon/grey comb- faint rasp on exhale (photos)

    For 3 days, we've quarantined our Sexlink hen. Droopy, grey-maroon comb, looks dark around her face. Not moving well, puts her right wing out. Yesterday, she would stick her right leg out behind her. Eating well, but decreasing today, eating for short bursts. Just now, I hear a very faint rasp...
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    Nest Box Naughties

    I would assume it's an act of territorial dominance. My dogs do this. One will lay about three feet from the food bowl. Just lay there, and I can just "see" her daring the others to cross this line. Another dog will just flat out lay across the doorway to the food room. I always have to...
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    Broody

    ...coop and opened the trap door, revealing her in the box, she gave me a growl and open beak that was humorous as well as alarming! Boy was she bit**y and verrrrry fluffy. When I let all the chickens out (15 hens and one Roo - hens are 4 months to 1.5 years) to free-range four hours ago, she...
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    Having trouble with my 5 week old chickens come night fall, please help! New mommy over here!

    To get our flock to go into the coop at night to go to bed, we used a camping lantern. Put it in the coop, turned it on at dusk. They'd all go in and settle on their perches. Then we'd take the lamp out for the night. We only had to do this for three nights - now they go in on their own at...
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    Hen has taken on role of rooster and is attacking me!

    Donrae - What is it you do on the second offense? I have a Silver Cuckoo Maran rooster in with all our hens. He has fluffed up at me in the past a couple times, and I grab him and carry him around a while. He stops. This past week he has fluffed at me and appeared aggressive. I carry a...
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    ** Once pecking (and picking) on a hen starts, will the flock ever welcome her back?

    ...they are pecking away at bugs. This makes me happy. It is quite the dance - Lucy in the coop by herself, everybody else in the run. Lucy in the coop and run, everybody else outside. Lucy in the "infirmary" - our wire-fenced storage area - and everybody else in the coop/run. **song and dance**
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    ** Once pecking (and picking) on a hen starts, will the flock ever welcome her back?

    Have 7 hens, 1 rooster in my flock. Here's my QUESTION: Once a member of the flock is deemed "sick" or "weak" and the others peck at her, and once the hen is healthy again, does the flock quit picking on her? While letting them out of the run to free-range a few days ago, I looked out...
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    Female Buff Orpington?

    I have two Buff Orpington hens - and yep ... they look like your picture. :)
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    ooh - Horatio is so handsome!!
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    Rooster Behaviors

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My solution? Get rid of the hubby. Keep the roo.
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    Rooster behavior

    Dusty Chicken - are you in our coop and run every morning? Our rooster (Silver Cuckoo Maran) does the same thing, and I had to laugh at your description of the hens not wanting to be the first one out of the coop. There are days when our hens don't fly down off the perches for a couple...
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    One chicken going to bed early..?

    Yogurt may be a good treat for her ... might put some flora in her system???
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    Can hens have heart attacks?

    That happened to us a few weeks ago. Stella, one of our Silver Wyandottes (and the first chick I chose at the feed store out of the bin) was fine one morning. Two hours later I went out to the coop to give them some treats and she was dead - right in front of the pop door. No feathers, no...
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    speckles where there shouldn't be any...

    We have two buff orpingtons and a golden wyandotte who lay tan eggs - about half the time we get the beautiful speckles like the picture you posted, but I don't know which one is doing it. I wouldn't worry about it - enjoy the artwork!
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    Blue Ameracauna Eggs

    My EE lays green eggs.
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    Mystery Death-picture- can more experienced owners tell what happened

    Thanks Avalon - My son just let the chickens out of the run to "graze" - all seems fine.
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    Mystery Death-picture- can more experienced owners tell what happened

    No automatic pop door (a luxury!) I have to go out and open it up and it has a hook to keep the door up. And thank you, Clairabean, she was a beautiful hen. She was the first chick I bought. And as I looked in the bins with all the little chicks running around, SHE was the one who looked up...
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    Mystery Death-picture- can more experienced owners tell what happened

    Thank you CMV. I found her outside the pop door, so either she was coming out of the door, or was in the run going clockwise and died about 10 inches from the door, I can't tell which. I can understand about the illness and not showing it - horses (of which I have eight) are the same way. By...
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    Mystery Death-picture- can more experienced owners tell what happened

    If you more experienced chicken owners would be so kind as to provide a few scenarios that could have happened, this would be a learning experience for us. Thank you for your time. Facts: Chickens are all 6 -7 months old. We've had them since they were less than a week old. They have been...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    ...All our chickens I bought at just a couple days old, last mid-March. I have: 3 Wyandottes 1 Americauna 1 Rhode Island Red 1 Brown Leghorn 2 Buff Orpingtons and 1 surprise rooster, a Silver Cuckoo Maran, so I know it wasn't him! ** Any ideas who out of that list would lay a tan/pinkish egg?
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