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    Beans?

    Can chickens eat cooked beans, like kidney beans?
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    Newborn chick's leg turned sideways!

    My broody's eggs just hatched (last night and this morning) and one of the chick's legs is all wrong. It looks like it's turned sideways, going out instead of down. It's hard to tell, but I think this same chick was getting around fine a few hours ago-- maybe mama hen stepped on him or...
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    Buff Orpington roo in central VA

    Need to find a new, good home for our lovely Buff Orpington rooster, Xander. He is exactly one year old, with a sweet, docile temperament. Very tame, easy to pick up/ hold/ etc., he can free range around my 2-year-old and 4-year-old sons with no worries. But, we live in an urban area and can...
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    Rooster's legs all red

    I noticed this morning that my roo's legs are streaked with red, with red between his toes as well. I thought maybe scaly leg mites, but he doesn't seem to have the raised/ bumpy scales associated with the mites. Is this an early stage, maybe? Does anybody know about OTHER things (besides...
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    Hen with back feathers all gone-- what to do?

    I have a flock of 6: 5 hens and one roo. Of the hens, one is a Buff Orpington who is apparently the bottom of the pecking order. She's being mated so frequently that the roo has scratched off all of her back feathers-- it's been going on for awhile but suddenly today it's much much worse; you...
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    Is popcorn ok?

    Quick question-- is it OK to give popcorn to chickens? Not buttered, not salted-- leftover from stringing decorations.
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    7-month-old Rooster Finally Crowing

    I'd given up on my BO roo ever showing signs of adult behavior... they hatched out in April and I'd read about cockerels that start crowing at 8 weeks, 12 weeks, etc-- and he has been totally quiet. Then this morning, he's crowing! I guess he's just a late bloomer... Hope the neighbors don't...
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    "Get large-bodied birds", they said.

    "They're less flighty! Stay where they're supposed to better." they said. Ahahahaha. We missed putting our (free-ranging) little flock back into their coop last night as it's getting dark so early now, so they were out and about this morning. Somehow, two of the Buff Orpingtons managed to...
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    Inbreeding in chickens?

    I have 3 Buff Orps that are 5.5 months old. One of them is a cockerel, and if he stays as nice as he is right now, we might be keeping him. So far, we have brought in fertile eggs for our broody hens to hatch out, but with a rooster in the flock, we won't need to in the future. But, I have no...
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    How long do chickens grieve/ stress?

    I had two hens that were very close. They hatched together, and for over a year, they were a flock of two. They went broody together this spring, shared a clutch of eggs, and co-raised the chicks. They were never apart. About a week and a half or two weeks ago, a raccoon attacked the...
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    The "traditional" versus the "exotic"

    What kind of chicken are you drawn to, and why? I'm especially interested in all of you that like the exotic (AKA the weird! ) breeds of birds-- anything that might make your friends say, "wait, what is THAT?"... Silkies, frizzles, naked necks, Polish, feathery legs, etc. I always just...
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    Coming out Against the Chicken Tractor concept

    After 5 years, I'm throwing in the towel on the "chicken tractor" and building a permanent coop. I find it problematic that this system is frequently marketed/ aimed at the small, urban chicken keeper, when it's really better suited for a LARGE space-- a large, level lot at the very least; at...
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    He's finally getting started!

    Our chicks hatched in April. He said he'd have the coop done by the end of May. In mid-June, we went to Lowe's and bought 2x4's and concrete foundation blocks... They've been neatly covered with a tarp since then. I've bribed, threatened, pleaded, begged... and he's FINALLY "broken ground"...
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    If you like the "weird"...

    This is a question for everybody who keeps 'unusual' chickens-- how did you get into it? By "unusual" I mean any bird that is far from the typical, farm-yard, dual-purpose chicken: silkies, Polish, naked-necks, frizzles... anything that makes visitors say, "that's a CHICKEN?" I have always...
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    How long can a hatch last?

    My two broodies were setting 20 eggs between them (sharing nest). The hatch started yesterday morning, and by yesterday evening I had 11 chicks. The hens are still trying to hatch the rest of the eggs (when I picked up a few to smell them, they carefully rolled them back underneath). At what...
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    Cockerel help!

    I have 3 Buff Orpington chicks that are 6 weeks old. It is becoming obvious that one of them is a cockerel-- his comb is taller and redder than that of the other two, and his tail looks... poofier. He acts different, too. I've been keeping chickens for about 5 years now but this is my first...
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    Questions about my broodies!

    My "flock" right now consists of 2 adult hens in the backyard, and 3 chicks in the laundry room. Both, BOTH of my big girls are broody right now! If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have held off on getting chicks, naturally... Anyway. Because they are a flock of two, they are very...
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    Hardware Cloth Questions

    I'm comparing prices online for hardware cloth... right now looks like Amazon has the best deal. Inches I understand, but steel gauges I don't have any point of comparison for! It seems that the 1/4" hardware cloth comes in a 23-gauge, but the 1/2" cloth comes in 19-gauge. Is 23 strong...
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    Overall survival rate?

    Question for those here that have raised up many chicks: what is the overall survival rate? Because everybody comes here with their problems and concerns, it starts to feel like the hardest thing ever just to raise a few chicks to adulthood: nobody posts to say, 'yep, all 10 of my new chicks...
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    BROODY HELP PLEASE!

    Not even sure where to put this thread but here goes... Right now, my flock consists of 2 adult hens (in the back yard) and 3 new chicks (in the laundry room) that haven't met yet. The big girls live in a tractor-coop that can hold 3-4, and my husband is about to start building a new coop that...
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