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    is my chicken evil? please help

    i keep a flock of 5 hens. a few months ago i introduced 2 of them and the normal initiation pecks and shunning only lasted about 5 days... accept for 1 of them. she has been terrorizing these 2 for months. when she gets near them they run away, is this normal? luckily she allows them to sleep in...
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    my chicken is dying!

    about 3 weeks ago one of my chickens started acting funny, she would just sit there with her head tucked in and was very lazy, then she started having trouble walking like she was drunk or didnt have the strength. she died about 5 days after she started looking lazy. now another of my girls is...
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    Best Way To Feed Chickens

    we were using a hanging feeder, first we used regular feed but its really expensive so we switched to the pellets but the girls like to knock the food onto the ground and kick it around and pellets started turning into muddy clay stuff in the rain, so we switched back to regular feed and now i...
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    Black Star Butts & Cracked Eggs

    I have a black star hen, shes a really big girl. Her butt is so big that she has a white stripe under it from when she poops. also whenever she lays an egg its cracked and smooshed in on one end. So im wondering does she have an abnormaly high vent or does she have an abnormaly big butt? and...
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    24/7 lighting

    i know large egg farms do this to increase egg output but it seems kind of rude, is this bad for chickens? can they even get any sleep with the lights on 24/7?
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    Can Molting Affect The Pecking Order?

    My 2 bantam brahmas have always been at the top of the pecking order but right beneath them it went snicklefritz - bantam dutch, fiddle faddle - leghorn, then poppycock - black star. fiddle faddle and poppycock are younger and were introduced to the brood late and were of course at the bottom...
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    Best Place To Order Meal Worms On The Net

    we've been looking at grubco.com since someone mentioned it on here but id like to hear where you guys are shopping and what youre paying... for crickets too. any input would be most helpful
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    Peeing Outside

    i've always enjoyed the alternative to the toilet, letting her loose outside is nice. but i imagine there might be some health concernes in the back yard now that it belongs to the girls. shall i start peein in the front yard instead?
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    Just Started Laying, But 1 Egg A Week

    my black star poppycock started laying 3 weeks ago, thats when we got our first egg. but shes really slacking on the rent, we've only had 3 eggs total from her. shes friendly happy and healthy but whats goin on??? my leghorn just started laying a little over a month ago same diet same everything...
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    Cow Tongue Skin For A Treat

    if i boil a cow tongue and skin it and cut it into strips would it be safe for them to eat?
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    Pecked In The Eyeball

    my leghorn fiddle faddle was just on my lap getting her pettins and she came in real close and pecked my eyeball, needless to say, OUCH. i dont hold a grudge though i love her, has this ever happened to anyone else? does she think my eyes are treats? i wont be gettin my face too close again...
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    molting?????

    didnt know where to put this so ill put it here i read that molting always starts on the top of the head but my girls head looks normal and her feathers are all over the yard, and just 1 hour ago i saw her do the chicken shake and 4 feathers flew off, so is she molting.... she hasnt laid in...
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    strutting around wings slightly opened

    my lil lady is strutting around with her wings slightly opened... looks kinda funny, does this mean anything?
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    EGG SIZE how long?

    i know they start out smaller but how long does a chicken take to start laying its maximum size eggs?
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    My Chicken Farted O_O

    it was a loud wet flapper, kinda like a shart O_O has this happened to anyone else?
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    Bed Time

    i noticed that my girls start to roost at about 7:30pm, still a little light out, how long do they just sit up there and gossip until they really fall asleep?
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    Chubby Chickens

    is it very unhealthy for a chicken to be a bit pudgy? i dont know if mine is getting fat or just growing still. but she is kind of a treat hog and i dont want her dying of a heart attack or something.....
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    do chickens get jealous?

    2 of my chickens arent getting as many meal worms as the other 3 because theyre not comfortable around people... and when i throw them some they run away and the others go snatch em up. are they gonna get sad and feel left out? they do get one every now and then but i feel bad for them :hit
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    should each hen have her own nest?

    we have a big nest box (kind of a loft room) in our coop and that seemed fine for a while but now 2 of the girls are laying on the side of the house O_o whats going on here?
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    mushroom control

    i read that mushrooms can be bad for chickens, but come fall the darn things are everywhere. do i just need to go out every morning and pick as many as possible? anybody have any mushroom related problems with their girls and/or advice about what to do about it? i would really hate for one of...
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