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    Crow collar for Bantam?

    Does anyone have a recommendation for a crow collar for a bantam? He's 8 weeks?!? I don't recall. He's fully feathered and just this tiny little guy and he's already started crowing! I had no idea that was possible! lol Anyhow I have neighbors that knocked on my door and cursed a blue...
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    3 or 4 week old chicks *fighting*??

    I have 6 bantams - about 3 or 4 weeks old and they are fighting. Its one in particular attacking the others. Grabbing the other one by the neck and jumping on him. I've never seen this before in chicks. They were straight run - is this a male behavior emerging?!?
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    Keeping smell down in run

    We live in New England - so there's lots of weather - sometimes all in a week. Where the run is there's lots of run off from the rain. So there's a bit of erosion we're tackling. In addition - its overlooking the neighbor's yard ( the proper, legal distance) but I still don't want the wind to...
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    Has anyone had any success, have any advice, any designs, any reason not to build....dutch doors on the chicken run (for people to walk through - not a pop hole door)?? I was thinking that it would be easier for my family to help me care for the chickens if we weren't always worried about the...
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    Was it the broody hen? Was it the rooster? Or was it the two other full grown hens in the coop? And why? Right now I separated the rooster because that was the easiest to do and (to me) the most likely culprit. But I will be away this weekend with someone else watching them. And momma...
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    Frozen eggs - are they ruined?

    I had an abundance of eggs this summer so I froze them. I'm not really sure what I was thinking because I've read plenty of threads about scrambling them a bit and throwing in a pinch of salt - but I saw a post where she froze them with the yolk intact so that's what I did. Defrosting them -...
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    Northwest Connecticut Egg Bound Chicken

    I'm in Northwest Connecticut near Bristol, CT and I have a 2 year old egg bound chicken. We've just had a death in the family and we're pretty upside down right now. I haven't the time to deal with this poor baby. Its been two days and soaking her in some warm water and trying to force fluids...
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    CORRECTiON: TWO YEAR OLD Three year old hens not really laying

    Yes. I've read the other threads and the excellent advice but sometimes there's one or two things about the question that's not like my situation.... I have three year old hens. There are two red sex links and one amber link. They've seen quite a bit of predators take their fellow flock...
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    GREAT SCOT! First egg attempt???

    When I first went in this morning it was tacky. Its hard. Not chicken shell hard - but big ball of tissue hard. Blech. Anyone experience such a thing?
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    Why is she losing her feathers?

    My coop isn't the cleanest right now - but it is usually quite clean - we were away for a few days with a friend feeding them. She's fed them before and takes pretty good care so I don't really think its stress from a different person caring for them. I'm pretty sure she's been losing feathers...
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    Ameraucana pullets jumping on each other?

    I have two ameraucana pullets. I'd say they're a little over 4 weeks old. Fully feathered. They're inside with me - still under a heat lamp on those cold days (we're in New England- sigh). They're usually very sweet. They come out to me and sit with me - unlike my other experiences with...
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    How old is 'too old' ? and Chicken Math?

    So now I totally understand Chicken Math. Here's my story: There's some very fat hawks and foxes in our area so I needed to replenish my stock. Thanks to TSC's stupid rules I was forced to buy 6 chicks even though I only needed 3-4. I've since lost one. So I have 5 tetra tints but what I...
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    Easter Egger chick parentage question

    So if someone is selling me an Easter Egger chick and lists their hens and roosters..and there's no Easter Egger rooster...then what does that mean for the chicks?? I think I know the answer but...
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    Frozen eggs.....Laying overnight?

    I'm down to three chickens who are just getting past a hard molt. So we went from so many eggs we had to give them away to having to buy eggs at the grocery store since our own chicken eggs were scarce. So its doubly upsetting when we find a frozen egg...which is often. I'm in CT so the...
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    Molting now? In November?

    So my 1 year old plus amber link is molting. I'm pretty sure the red sex links are molting, too - but not as drastically. The amber link is losing feathers like crazy - it looks like they were having a pillow fight in the coop - and she's now got all these pin feathers. I'm inclined to stick...
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    Broody hen - pecking order disputes - and bantam pullets

    I just asked on another forum about my hens suddenly starting to peck another hen. The short answer was a pecking order dispute possibly brought on ("suddenly") because I was away for a few days with someone else caring for them. But I had another issue that I didn't tie in until now: a hen...
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    One chicken suddenly pecking another?!?

    My chickens are just over a year old. I bought them last year in the Spring. The 6 of them (now 5) have been together all that time with no issues. The coop is large enough. The 'run' is an 8x8 dog kennel that they've been in since the beginning of this summer - but bear in mind that they...
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    Spray of blood in coop - some on feathers...?

    I have 4 red sex links and one amber link - so one of my birds is white. I noticed what looked like spots of blood on her feathers hear and on her tail feathers and started looking around - there's no visible signs of a wound that I can see - not her comb, under her feathers, her...
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    Striped bantam chick...what is it?

    Can anyone help identify the breed of this bantam chick? I got it from the tractor supply company with some red sex links and wondered what breed it is...(it was labeled 'bantam mixed breeds', of course)... Either way - thanks!
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    TSC selling me birds that they know 'don't do well'?

    I had 6 RSL pullets - gonna be a year soon. Just recently lost one to a hawk. So I'm in TSC getting feed during 'chick days' - big mistake - and a neighbor is in there trying to buy 4 chicks and, of course, they won't let her because of the 6 chick minimum rule. Now I agree with the idea...
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