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    Hawk inside the chicken coop

    We have two sides to our coop, one is for our layers and one is for our meat birds, new meat birds 3-5 weeks old, we just started letting them outside during the day over the weekend. the whole run is fenced with 6 foot fence. Well my husband got home today and there was a very young hawk...
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    Need some input on breed?

    This baby is 3 weeks old, I was thinking easter egger? I am hopeful it is female but not too sure! Any input would be appreciated!!!
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    Breed - if anyone can help! Pretty sure it is a female - 4 months old

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    Curious about rooster behavior

    I have been watching our roosters and trying to figure out their calls. I am pretty sure I figured out what they do when a "predator" is near, last night there were crows flying overhead and at first they were VERY loud and chased the hens into our treeline then continued to pace around the...
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    Chicken with possible sprained leg joint

    Any info or advice would be appreciated. I have a 3 year old RIR and last Thursday I found her in the coop just sitting there not wanting to walk on one of her legs. At first I thought she was sick because I thought it felt like her abdomen was swollen so I brought her in, checked for...
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    Molting question....

    do birds need to "molt" to continue with regular egg laying? some of our girls appear to be molting and I wonder if the need to and do we have to change the coop temp/condition to help them?
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    Easter Egger.....

    Ok, so our little "rare" chick that we swore was a boy.....laid a tiny little egg today! I was SHOCKED! it cracked me up it was so small compared to our Reds eggs! I swear it was a darn rooster!
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    Chicken with irritated eye!

    Noticed one of our RIR hens last night had her eye shut....it didn't look swollen or pussy, it was watering. I brought her in and washed it with warm water and put some neosporin on it (after I read through a few things!) she wasn't very active last night but this morning I did it again and...
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    How do we get our Reds to get along with a new bird/chick

    Hey all! Hopefully someone can help....we have a two month old chick that we have to try and find a way to get our RIR's to accept her. We got her from McMurray as a rare chick when we got our batch of Cornish's and they are going to be gone soon and we don't want her by herself so at what...
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    Hi from Indiana!

    Hello everyone! We just started this spring with our chickens and went full force! We have 25 Rhode Island Red hens and 1 RIR rooster, we had 25 cornish hens that we raised for meat and we are on our second batch of the cornish. Love my RIR girls, they are absolutely beautiful and started...
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    Help identifying chick!

    Hi All! I am new to posting here but we have learned a lot from this site! We recently received a "rare" chick with our last shipment of cornish birds and we have no idea what this little chick is so any help would be appreciated!
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