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  1. marisaalexandra

    Help for abused hen with bad smell

    i work at a camp with too many roosters, and this poor hen has had her back feathers and tail ripped off by a roo. She smells really, really bad and I suspect has lice, but I’d hesitate to dust her because of her sore pink back (there are visible sore spots). I made her an apron but she pulled...
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    Do they "mind" the egg gathering?

    Does anyone know whether non-broody hens seem to "mind" our taking the eggs? Lately, I find myself diverting their attention with a handful of seeds before grabbing the eggs out of the box. My husband thinks I'm crazy, but it's not just hypersensitivity; I don't want the hens to think the...
  3. marisaalexandra

    Let's start a metro NYC area thread? Looking for Easter Eggers!

    Hi-- I'm in Northern New Jersey, a poultry lover's desert, and it gets awkward looking at info about birds in far-flung areas of NJ and NY and CT (I know, boo hoo!). Maybe we need our own thread?? We definitely need to support each other if your neighbors are like mine (good people who...
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    Odd leg shuffle-- new little dance-- why?

    Hi, My daughters and I have noticed that our Rhode Island Red and our Leghorn hens, twenty-one weeks and new layers both, have started doing this funny thing when we move to pick them up. They lift their wings slightly at the shoulders, crouch toward the ground, and do a weird little churning...
  5. marisaalexandra

    introducing new chickens: question about "look but don't touch"

    Hi-- We had five birds hatch and three were roosters, and finally reluctantly parted with our last roo, since a neighbor was complaining. That left us with a Rhode Island Red and a sweet Leghorn, one of whom just started laying. So we have two new buff orp girls, 9 weeks, in a dog carrier in...
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    Grateful to you all, not a lot of chickens in Northern Valley NJ...

    Hello BYC, I've been reading since our first hatch about six weeks ago now, and this community has helped us more times than it knows. I'm a high school English teacher. For some reason I can't explain at all, I have wanted to have chickens ever since I was a kid; my husband wasn't thrilled...
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