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    My chick pics successive weeks for gender guesses

    I’ve taken photos at 3 and 5 weeks so far of my 7 chicks — New Hampshire Red, Easter Egger, Barnevelder, Olive Egger, Chocolate Orpington and 2 Isbars. All from Mount Healthy. All hatchery sexed as pullets. My guess at 5 weeks is anywhere from 1-3 cockerels, but I’ll be curious to see how close...
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    chick keeps having dried feed cemented/clump in beak

    I have one 3 week old EE who may have a small gap between top/bottom beak (not cross beak, they look like they are aligned correctly), but there's a small space where food keeps getting trapped and drying so that I see a little bit of it from the side, and can use my fingernail to loosen and...
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    Sort of newish intro to say hello!

    We've had a small flock for about 15 years, but I haven't posted here in years... work and raising kids kind of overtook me. Our hens have all been elderly for awhile. Now that my husband and I are empty nesters, we felt it was a good time to fill the nest with some chicks :) My daughters are 24...
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    Wing Feather Sexing questions

    I'm new here :-) We have had chickens for about 15 years (small flock of 6-8) but it's been a while since we brooded babies and I feel like I'm learning everything all over again. We have 7 1-week-olds (mixed -- 2 Isbars, 1 New Hamp, 1 EE, 1 OE, 1 Choc Orp, and 1 Barnevelder). I was reading up...
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    Integrating 2 bantam w 6 LF

    Hi everyone - I’ve got three cream legbars, a blue copper maran, two coro Sussex and an old (8 years) auntie bantam SL wyandotte. We lost four hens in a dog attack at the end of November, and have an 8x8 coop with a 10x20 run. I’m thinking about adding in two buff Brahma bantams (18 mos old)...
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    Hen with 3-inch long white discharge?

    Hello -- I'm hoping someone might be able to tell me what is going on with our hen, Pearl.... she is my daughter's favorite little 4H hen, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what might be going on with her, so I can prepare my daughter if it's ominous... 1) What type of bird , age and...
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    pullet died... diagnosis? precautionary measures for remaining flock?

    Hi all -- Last July, we brought home a young blue orpington. When we were leaving the breeder's, my young daughter noticed a little, stunted lavender orp pullet. She begged to be able to take her home. The breeder (and I ) tried to talk her out of it, but the breeder thought the pullet wasn't...
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    Weak legs, thin pullet

    I'm wondering if someone can help me diagnose this pullet.... 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) English Blue orpington, pullet, about 18(? +/-) weeks, weighs 2 lbs, 1 ounce. She feels thin to me... tall, but thin. She has...
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    Tail carriage question

    We recently brought home a blue orp pullet -- about 3 months old. My daughter would like to show her next year in 4H, but I have a question about tail carriage. She mostly carries her tail horizontal, occasionally has it pointing down a little. Every once in awhile it's held more upright. Is...
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    Is it a cold? crusty nostril on pullet, fishy smell

    We brought home a young (about 3-4 months) orpington pullet on Friday. She seemed healthy, though she needs to put on weight. We are keeping her quarantined from our flock, and she's eating and drinking well. I dusted her Friday when we got home. I noticed yesterday (Monday) what I thought...
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    Hen died unexpectedly.

    Our Speckled Sussex, Mabel, died unexpectedly, and I'm wondering if I should have her necropsied. I’m not sure what happened. My husband always opens the hen door when he leaves early in the morning to let the hennies into the yard, and then when I go out to scatter scratch I open the big door...
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    How long to isolate after illness?

    We have a young Belgian d'Uccle hen (about 5 months old -- just started laying). On Saturday morning, she seemed unable to stand or walk. She was fluffed up as if cold (it was in the 30s, not nearly as cold as it has been), so I scooped her up and took her inside, isolated her in the tub with a...
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    Choosing a surveillance camera

    Early in November I posted that we had four of our seven chickens stolen one night from our backyard coop. We've added padlocks to the run and coop doors, and installed motion sensor lights in five places. We also took down the decorative fencing/gate and built a privacy fence with a keypad for...
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    Newbie, with question about quarantining

    I'm feeling like a total idiot. We raised 7 hens from chicks (got them from hatchery in April). I'd posted about our four big girls getting stolen from the coop. An acquaintance of a friend had a huge number of young pullets she'd raised from chicks from a hatchery... I've never seen so many...
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    How often do you dust for mites, etc, and what do you use?

    I've seen several products, and am not sure what to use/how often to use it, and at what age... Any problems with eggs when you treat for external parasites, mites, etc?
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    New pullet, pecked tail feathers

    We brought home a new pullet last week (kind of rescued her!)... She was in a large group of birds, and had been pecked to the point of being moved to a smaller group. We've never dealt with pecking issues before. She had been swabbed with Blu Kote, but appears to have a large scab in that area...
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    Hens-- EE, blue Orp, Silkie, Marans in Colorado?

    We recently sadly lost 4 of our 7 hens and are looking for a couple of hens to add to our coop. We would like to add two young hens now, then two to three chicks in the spring, and both my daughters hope to start showing in 4H this year. We live about an hour north of Denver. We're really open...
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    Apple cider vinegar?

    I recently read that it's good to feed chickens apple cider vinegar, and I was wondering if others here do that. Do you put it out full strength in a dish or how do you offer it? Do they like it?
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    Two-legged predators

    On Thursday night, just before dark, we closed up the coop and run, and secured the latches (my daughter herded our 7 hens in, and closed doors, then I went out and double-checked). The coop is toward the back of our yard, near a gate for back alley access. We left for dinner. Came back two...
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