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    Broody and Featherless?

    This is one of our broody hens. She has been nesting for several months, but still won't stay on a clutch long enough to hatch baby chicks. Last week we noticed that her breast is bare. Is this normal for hens who are broody for a long time or is this indicative of a great problem? Any advice...
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    Sun burnt chickens-help!

    I have about 6 hens who have bare backs due to molting and a highly ambitious rooster. This wasn't too big of a problem until they started hanging outside in the 70-80 degree sunny days. I have noticed in the last few days that their backs are stating to get very pink, some even red-purple...
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    Molting for two months...is this natural?

    My ladies started molting in late November when Iowa has a short cold snap. We have a whole flock of bare headed chickens and a few with bare backs. However, Iowa didn't stay cold and we went through several weeks of 40-60 degree weather. Now, almost two months later, my ladies are still bare...
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    Help! What is wrong with my rooster's vent area?

    Today while we my DH and I were cleaning out our coop, my chickens were going to town on our sunflowers, and having a great time eating the seeds. I just happen to look over and see Alpha Roo's back side as he bent over to get some seeds. That's when I noticed that below his vent was a large...
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    76 grams! Now that's a truly JUMBO egg!

    So this is day 4 in a row that I have found truly JUMBO eggs in my coop. A store bought AA egg is about 60 grams, and I have a hen or two that are laying 70+ gram eggs. I know they could be double yolks, and haven't candled to look yet, but if they are a regular egg is this normal to have hens...
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    Blood on Eggs

    This may have been answered several times now, but every day I am finding eggs with a few smeared drops of blood on them. It's only been the last three days or so, and I assumed, that it was due to a few hens being new to laying. However, since it has been three days now, is this a sign of a...
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    CHickens in buckets...who knew?

    So my WHOLE family came out to Iowa this March and helped me build my first coop. I was trying to do this cheap, so we used a lot of left over material that we found around. When it came time for the nesting boxes, we didn't have enough wood. So my dad suggested 5 gallon buckets. He said...
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    Can heat cause soft shelled eggs? Or is it lack of calcium?

    My hens started laying two weeks ago, and today was the first day we found 2 soft shelled eggs. Since they started laying, today was the first day that it was over 100 degrees. I didn't know if the heat could stress the hens out enough to produce soft eggs. I thought, if anything, they would...
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    Australorp and what else?

    This is Mutt Chicken. She's a mutt that came with my Australorps from the hatchery. Ever since we got her, I have been dying to figure out what she is mixed with. Does anyone have a guess?
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    Mixing two flocks...am I just lucky, or is the worst yet to come...

    On Monday I moved my new chickens, 15 barred rocks (18wks), into my garden where they are sharing a fence line with my my flock of 12 australorps (22wks). After reading all the nightmare stories about mixing birds, I hunkered down and prepped for the worse . I had my rocks in quarantine for 30...
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    My first egg!

    It's been 5 months and 3 days since I brought my first batch of chicks home. We have been hearing a lot of noise this past week from our usually quiet hens, so we started checking three times a day for eggs with no luck. This morning I could barely get out of bed after a long day of work, but...
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    Do roosters get more protective when hens start laying?

    I have black australorps, and our rooster has been so docile...well until today when he attacked my fiancee. Do roosters get more aggressive when the hens are about the age where they lay eggs? My hens should be laying in the next week or so. This just caught us both off guard, as we have...
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    When in the day do chickens lay?

    This may seem like a silly question, but I'm new to chickens, and my ladies are at the age where they should be laying any day now. I have 10 black austalorps hens, and I was wondering do they prefer to lay in the morning or afternoon? I keep looking several times a day, but still nothing...
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