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    Chicken acting lame after sandbathing

    Does anyone else have a chicken that sometimes appears lame after sandbathing? A few times now,a chicken has been disturbed during sandbathing and not able to stand or walk properly for a few mins. I've even had one try and stand up then fall over and literally roll down the hill. That was...
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    Dog or cat or something else?

    I live in suburbs. Everyone has fenced properties,some are electric fences. We have lost 3 chickens in the last week. 2 were babies and might have been taken by an eagle but disappeared without a trace. The other was a fully grown hen,easter egger,nice and big and strong. I found her with...
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    6 week olds with no tails yet?!

    Laid by a Lohmann layer hen. Rooster is a miniature Bantam who is possibly x silkie. Hatched by Ameraucana hen. Only one has a tail so far and that one has had tail feathers for a long time already.
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    Chick has an extra toe

    Her mommy has the extra toe as well. Is this typical? They're Bantams. No idea what type. Mommy is white with grey legs. Daddy is white but from unknown parents and is smaller than mommy hen. He has yellow legs Baby has yellow legs and extra toe on each foot. Other babies have grey or yellow...
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    Finally intergrated

    My Bantam who refuses to get along with others has been free ranging 24/7 for a while now. Today she voluntarily went into the run with the others and they've spent the day free ranging in a flock. A few pecks and shouts but otherwise it's going ok. Now I just want to see where she decides to...
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    He or she? Easter Eggers

    I have 4 Ameracauna x Lohmann and 1 Ameracauna x Ameracauna (black one - mommy is a black hen). 9 weeks old now. I think they're girls. What do you think. We did the wing feathers length check when they were just days old. None have noticeably bigger legs.
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    Anti-social chicken

    I have a little white Bantam. She's an awesome broody but once her chicks get to a certain size (not age,size), she gets fed up and becomes a bully towards them. This usually coincides with her beginning to lay again. Current babies are full size chicks and they are 8 weeks old or so. She's...
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    Ameracauna roo x hybrid layer

    I've got 4 or 5 chicks hatched today from Ameracauna roo x with hybrid red layer. Are there any tricks to telling gender by colour with a cross like this? Purely for education reasons. They will all be grown,not killed as babies. I also have 2 Ameracauna x Ameracauna. No idea which is which...
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    12 week old Bantam male

    My Bantam boy is very small however, I think this is due to his breed size rather than his age. For the last week whenever we go into his coop,he attacks our feet. Jumps on them and holds on tight to the point of drawing blood unless we can shake him off. It almost looks as if he is trying to...
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    Small Bantam breed?

    I have this little Bantam. 99% convinced it's a boy. Hi parents were supposed to be golden brown Frizzle Bantams but he came out ivory white with some black in his tail and a few black marks on his hackle feathers. This is him in front of his adoptive/hatching mom. She's also a Bantam. He is...
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    Who passes the blue egg gene with Ameracaunas?

    Does the blue egg gene come from the rooster side or the hen? If there is a cross with an Ameracauna rooster and a brown egg laying hen (hybrid layer), is there anyway to know what colour egg to expect from the offspring? My rooster really likes some of my layers!
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    Fertilised egg?

    What do you think? Could this egg be fertilised?
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    8 months,no eggs,roosters trying to mate

    I have an Easter egger female. 8months old and not laying. It's now winter here but temperate climate so days aren't super short. My boys started crowing this week,also months,and at the same time realised what girls are for. Is it an issue that they're trying to mate with her even if she's...
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    7 months old and not crowing?

    I have 2 roosters. They're 7 months old now (28 weeks). Easter eggers even though sold as Ameraucana. No crowing yet. Not even attempts. And the one female not yet laying. The boys are also really skittish creatures. Nothing like any other roosters I've had. I would have thought by now they...
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    2 months in and new chickens still scared

    I have 7 Lohmann layers and 3 Ameracauna /Easter egger (still not 100 sure Breeder says one thing,others say another) I am 99.9% sure the A are 2 males and a female. My Lohmann chase the Ameracauna. The Ameracauna are really scared of them. They're all the same size and have been within sight...
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    My Bantam baby...boy or girl?

    10 days old now. Not sure if its possible to tell from wing feathers at this stage,I couldn't get a decent picture at a day old. Isn't he cute...the mommy is very happy to let my kids pick up baby but any other person gets pecked and shouted at if they get too close
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    Mommy hens are so clever

    My previous broody mommy was not so clever but this one is such a mommy. She calls her baby and babies her baby and cleans it (picks all the bits of dirt off with her beak) and chooses what she thinks are the best bits of the food for it and finds bugs and worms for baby and shows it how to...
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    Will mommy hen accept new babies?

    My Bantam hen just hatched her egg today. A single egg,I'm 99.9% sure it was a Bantam egg but not from this mommy. Such a cute baby. Do you think that the mommy hen might accept new babies on Friday/Saturday if I bought day old to 1week old chicks? If I can even get some. Otherwise I will...
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    Random question regarding cost of feeding

    I was reading through some other posts regarding cost of feeding a backyard flock. It got me thinking. This is an international group so obviously costs differ greatly. What if,for interests sake,we share what it costs to feed a flock of 10 std chickens for a month on regular feed (nothing...
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    Is there any natural antibacterial type cream /salve I can make to use on chickens?

    I know many for use on humans but they contains essential oils or infusions of herbs which may not be safe for poultry use since they might ingest some of it (by accident or purpose). My he recently escaped being caught by 2 crowned eagles but she has lacerations and puncture wounds which I...
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