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    Molting? Feathers everywhere!!!!

    I have an Ameracauna, in the last few days she has lost ALOT of feathers. It does not look like she is molting, it looks like she is either pulling her feathers out or they are just falling out. I put her in another pen away from the other hens, because she seems to always be the one who gets...
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    HELP!!!!!! 2 Hens dead

    Went out to check the girls a little while ago and found one of my Austrlorps dead under the roost. Picked her up and saw that her entrails were hanging out about 2 feet, there was blood on the roost. There are no signs of any animal digging around or in the chicken pen. My pen is enclosed with...
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    Cloudy Eye

    I have been watching my ameracauna (sp) hen Goldie for a while, she gets picked on alot from the other girls. Today I noticed one of her eyes looked strange, so I picked her up and saw that her eye is cloudy, like she has a cataract, so i checked her other eye and it has a small cloudy spot on...
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    What to do about a muddy chicken pen???

    My poor girls have a muddy chicken pen! It has been raining like crazy here, and my pen looks like a mud wrestling pit! I feel bad for my girls because they look so miserable walking around in the mud. I raked some leaves and put them in the pen but the rain is just getting them wet and the...
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    What chicken lays the largest brown eggs?

    Just wanted to know what kind of chicken will lay large brown eggs? Not just large, but jumbo size!
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    Question about chicken feed

    I have some left over Purina Start and Grow (medicated) feed from when my hens were chicks, it has been kept in my house, and sealed up. My hens are around 9 months old now, and are eating regular chicken feed. I wanted to know if I could mix this left over Start and Grow with their regular...
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    Hen laying eggs at night from the roost

    Today is the second day I have found an egg on the floor of my chicken coop. I think one of my hens is laying eggs at night from the roost. I have found the eggs right below the roost where they sleep at night. Not really sure who is doing it and why. I have six nest boxes, (eight hens) and they...
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    Black spots in egg yolk

    My husband noticed yesterday morning some black spots in the egg yolks. Would anyone know what causes that?
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    Are beans good sources of protein for chickens

    I have a molting EE, and I am trying to find some sources of protein for her, because I have read that she needs that to help grow her feathers back. Since it is getting colder because of winter, I want her to have feathers to keep her warm. I have read that beans are good sources of protein...
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    Do hens molt in the winter??????

    About 2 weeks ago my EE got broody, I put her in a broody cage for a few days and then put her back with the other hens. A few days ago I went out to the chicken pen and thought someone had plucked one of my girls! There were feathers everywhere. It is the same hen that got broody. She seems...
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    Will broody hen ever stop being broody????????

    Today is day 3 in her broody cage. I let her out for a while, she seemed to be doing fine as long as I was in the pen, as soon as I went out, she was right back in the nest box, so I put her back in the broody cage. I have a small fan propped up beside it to blow some air on her. I have been...
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    broody cage

    I had to put my broody amerucana in a broody cage. It is a wire dog kennel. I have her in the pen with the other chickens, they were hanging around her, now they are doing their chicken things. Do I leave her there at night, or do I let her out and let her go into the coop with the other girls...
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    Hen is acting strange

    I have a 10 month old amerucana, she is a great egg layer. Yesterday she stayed in the nesting box all day. I got a little worried about her, so I went and checked to see if she had laid an egg. I reached under her and there was an egg, I took it and got her out of the nest box, I wanted her to...
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    All my girls are getting along, Finally!!!!!

    After a few weeks my hens are all getting along. I did not know if they were ever going to start co-existing or pick each other to death! But my australorps finally decided to be semi-nice to the new amerucanas. My rhode island reds and amerucanas are laying eggs daily, and hopefully soon the...
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    Got my first Ameraucana egg this morning!!!

    So excited to get our first pretty powder blue egg this morning!! We were having some problems with adding some new hens with our old hens, but after almost 2 weeks the ameraucanas and my australorps have settled down and seem to be tolerating each other a little better. Proof, one of the...
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    New chickens being picked on and not laying eggs

    Hi, I am new to chickens. I got 9 chicks in April, all were supposed to be hens, but 5 were roosters. Found good homes for the roosters, and had 4 hens left, 3 Australorps and one California white. A week ago we got 2 Rhode Island Reds and 2 Ameraucanas. They are almost 2 months older than my...
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