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    Help IDing stray rooster?

    Hello! It’s been what’s since I’ve posted, I think. This guy followed my car down the road yesterday, jumped two fences (from front yard to back, then from back to pasture), finally deciding to hang out with my little flock of six hens. We were expecting freezing temps and snow last night, so...
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    Rethinking 8’x10’ coop interior layout - suggestions?

    Hi! We have had our “gifted” (for the price of a brand new smoker) custom built 8’x10’ coop (on skids!) for a few months now, and I think the interior layout needs work. I’ve attached a (not to scale) sketch of the interior along with pics (it needs to be cleaned and painted outside and...
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    Returning member - chickens again after nine years!

    Hi all! I am a returning member after a really long chicken-free break, and happy to be back! We sold my second flock (raised from incubated eggs I had on hand when my first flock was killed by coyotes) to a friend in 2011 during my complicated twin pregnancy, when I couldn’t stand the idea of...
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    Need suggestions - 3 out of 4 chicks are fighting!

    I've got four hen-hatched and brooded mixed breed chicks in a pen together with Mama the Easter Egger (their "mother"). The oldest two chicks are 5 days older than the baby...Mama hatched them all. Tonight I heard all kinds of commotion in their brooder pen so took a look, and found the black...
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    Dislocated hip, no avian vet - anything I can do?

    One of my EE girls - a tiny little thing - appears to have a dislocated hip. I was gone this past weekend and DH said she started limping. It's gotten worse...she hobbles around on it (right leg), mostly walking on her lower leg. She's still eating and drinking, and was flying up to sit on the...
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    Young RIR x Buff Orpington Rooster - FREE TO GOOD HOME

    This gorgeous boy needs a new home, as he's too frequent/heavy a breeder and has dislocated the hip on one of my tiny Easter Egger hens. Not his fault, but it's in the best interest of my flock to find him a new home. He's young, still learning his crow and growing spur buds. I think he'll be a...
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    HELP - Teeny has body lice!

    Hi all, Teeny, the 6+ month old runt in my flock has yellowish body lice (I think) - a ton of them. I checked a few of my other 9 hens and my rooster and didn't see any on them (although I'm sure they have them, too)...but Teeny is absolutely crawling with them. Ick. What is the best way to...
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    Is it true? EE eggshell colors never change?

    Hi all, I purchased three yearling EE hens from a woman and it took about three weeks before I saw an egg. It was greenish with brown speckles. Over the next 10 days I got 7 more, one of them a double yolker, but since I was getting only one egg a day I wasn't comparing shell color. The last...
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    Wyandotte folks: what gender BLRW do I have?

    Hi all, I bought three BLRW well-started straight run chicks on 8/18 from a local breeder and can't tell the gender on any of them. Can you help? I thought the two larger, darker ones might be cockerels, but then I looked at other wyandotte photos on this forum and it appears the hens have...
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    Temperament for Cuckoo Marans?

    Hi all, I have a lead on a couple of cuckoo marans pullets, but before I bite, what is the temperament of that breed? I am trying to steer away from nervous/flighty/aggressive types as my last flock wore me out. Thanks!
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    Pullets or Roos? (Cross bred)

    Hi all, I hatched 19 chicks on June 11th and still can't gender ID these two. The dad was a Black Australorp and moms were Red Sex Link or Black Sex Link. Of the 19 I have 9 confirmed roos and most were much slower to develop their saddle and hackle feathers. One has a paler face and tiny...
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    WA: Five 9.5-week old crossbred roos (and one big pullet)---FREE!!

    My flock has too many boys and not enough room! I have 5 young roos for FREE (three black, one white with a few black feathers and one white with brown feathers here and there). I also have one big white and black pullet (I think) who bullies the rest of my flock so she has to go, too. These...
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    WA: Two Registered Scottish Highland Calves for Sale

    Two weaned, registered Scottish Highland calves for sale - both fair ribbon winners! Scottish Highland are an ancient beef breed well-known for their excellent lean meat, easy calving, browsing ability, thick double hair coats and horns (males and females). Britain's Queen Elizabeth keeps a herd...
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    HELP - chicks won't stop picking (LONG, sorry)

    I am at my wit's end. I hatched out a replacement flock of crossbred chicks (19 in all) out of Black Sex Link, Red Comet and EE hens crossed with a Black Australorp roo on June 11. (I lost the parent flock to coyotes in May but had their fertile eggs.) The parent hens were hand-me-downs from my...
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    Why do my Easter Eggers always get beat up??

    This is my second flock, hatched out of fertile eggs left behind by my prior flock, which was killed by coyotes. The parent flock consisted of Red and Black Sex Link hens, Easter Egger hens, and a Black Australorp roo. For whatever reason 2 of my 3 EEs were always picked on by the other hens (I...
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    EMERGENCY - 6 wk old chicks pecked pullet HARD, barely alive

    I have 14 6 wk old chicks in our coop, hatched from my last flock (which was taken by coyotes). Yesterday evening I noticed the three EEs and the run were missing some feathers but didn't take them out like I should have. Gone all day, just went out to check, and they have killed and nearly...
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    My new chicks - same dad, crossbreed mamas

    Hi all! I have been absent a long while, just living life with my flock and cattle. Unfortunately, a coyote (or two) took my entire flock on May 16th. I did have about 4 dozen uncleaned, unrefrigerated fertile eggs, though, so a friend incubated them for me and they hatched yesterday! I have...
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    White spots on hen's ears?

    One of my 11 hens seemed a little "off" looking yesterday...there was black stuff around her vent (dried blood maybe?), her feathers looked a little dull, and she had white spots on her red ears. It took me 10 frustrating minutes to catch her (she's not slow!), and upon examination her eyes...
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    Big plans for my coop(s)!

    My DH and I inherited an old chicken coop - a room at the end of our ramshackle barn. It's about 10x6 (I think...need to remeasure), and originally housed our 11 hens. However, the girls - who came to me from my MIL with bad feather picking habits already - beat the tar out of two Easter Eggers...
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    Apple tree branches as roosts?

    I have a big old ladder-type roost that takes up too much interior floor space, and I'd like to remove it this weekend and replace it with poles or 2x4s or something else. We have a bunch of old apple and fir branches in our pasture (the cows have destroyed the apple trees!)...any reason why I...
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