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    Hen with head injury, possible neurological damage?

    I just found my 8 year old hen on the floor with a head injury. I didn't see what happened but I'd guess roosters. She's been bobbing her head over and over (see video) the entire time. Her "sense of balance" system must be injured? I cleaned the wound, managed to give her a couple sips of...
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    Late-blooming cockerel or surprise pullet?

    This little guy is 12 weeks old and I had his hatchmates ID'd weeks ago but he's either a late bloomer (I've had a few over the years) or actually not a boy. (He's half BLR Wyandotte and half, uh, let's call his bio mother a black sex-link Marans/Sebright.) These are the best pictures I'm...
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    For the chicken sociologists

    So, I love observing my chickens but I am also a real nerd about them and since I couldn't find any scientific papers on this I'll pose this question to the community: Have you noticed your roosters (especially young extra hormonal cockerels) show preference for certain hens in your flock, such...
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    Is my asymmetrical gander okay?

    My goose which I think is a gander (he's only like 3 and half months old so idk if there is a more correct term) has developed half of a... FUPA if I may use that term and if I may not use that term his foster mother, a 1.5 year old production Toulouse goose, has the same "saggy" feathers/flesh...
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    Itchy baby chick????

    I got some mail order chicks yesterday and this morning my gold laced polish chick is, for lack of a better term, tweaking out. She's preening her little wing feathers, and twisting her own wing around (and then screaming of course), stamping her feet the way chickens do when there is something...
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    Why are my hens getting in a pile?

    My flock does this weird thing where sometimes a few hens will just randomly pile together in a corner of the run. Sometimes they climb on top of each other, sometimes they try to burrow underneath. Does anybody else's flock do this? Chickens don't cuddle with each other, do they?
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    Second opinion on pullets

    So, firstly, I hatched these chicks, eight or nine of which are from the same hen, because said hen gave me 9 cockerels out of 9 eggs (laid consecutively!) and I wanted to know if it was a fluke or if she's just never going to have girls again. (original thread here) Normally I have great faith...
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    Scalped baby chick!

    This chick hatched under a first-time mother (one year of age) in the coop where other hens were around. I do not know if the chick was attacked by the broody or another hen, but I found it like six inches away from her, cold but alive. And with half the skin on its head missing. I figured first...
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    Is my hen sick?

    My sister and I just watched our Fayoumi Ace suddenly go from normal perky roadrunner to fluffed up lethargic hen. She was walking around the chicken pen, straining, occasionally dripping what looked like egg whites, then stopped and laid her egg in the middle of the yard. It took a few minutes...
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    My flock is scared of a wild rabbit.

    All it does is hop around nibbling at things (and pooping), as rabbits do, and my chickens are safe inside the pen, but they start squawking when they see it and if it moves suddenly they explode and scatter as if a hawk just dive-bombed their enclosure. My mom loves seeing wild rabbits so I...
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    Is my rooster E or E^R?

    This seems like a stupid question but I cannot get a straight answer as to whether my rooster has a gene for extended black or if he's birchen. More specifically, if he is (E, E^Wh) or (E^R, E^Wh). This is Jared, the rooster in question (the hens are his daughters): These were his parents, a...
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    I think my hen might have hatched 9 cockerels? Help?

    My beloved Sebright hen Sam laid nine eggs and hatched every one of them. Except... all of them kinda look like boys to me. They're 7 weeks old today (the pictures are from two days ago) and a number of them have started crowing, I've seen at least two attempt mating behavior, and they all...
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    Hen suddenly got sick and died within a few hours

    This morning I found one of my Welsummers (almost a year old) sitting on the coop floor. I'm pretty sure she exited the coop with the others first thing when I opened up their back door because it was empty except for one of my bantams, and a few minutes later I saw her sitting there. The hen...
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    Does my solitary house rooster need a hen?

    Awkward question, but while I've had house hens, I've never kept a rooster separate from the flock for an extended period of time, and I am wondering if he needs access to a hen to mate with. I don't know if he's getting frustrated/uncomfortable over time, if you know what I mean. (Edit: in...
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    Lethargic baby chick

    I got some mail-order chicks this morning and all 23 that I ordered came happy (well... as happy as anyone could be after going through the postal service) and healthy. All of them started eating and drinking right away. I noticed one of the easter eggers (the fluffiest chick any of us have ever...
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    My rooster hates all of his sons except for one. Why?

    I have this rooster, Jared, top of the pecking order, who understandably does not like his sons (four total). Three of them, he chases them away from the food and kicks them off if they try to mate with a hen. This is all totally in line with how my chickens have behaved in the past. Even if a...
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    Can anyone explain this rooster's comb to me?

    This is Hapsburg, a cockerel who had a difficult hatch and to this day remains a little weird. One of the ways he's weird is his comb. All eleven of his siblings and half-siblings have identifiable combs, but he has this monstrosity on his head: I've read the article on this site about...
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    Is this cross-breed growing silkie-type feathers?

    This little chick is a hodgepodge of breeds, with Silkie ancestry on both sides. (Taken at six days old. Just to give you an idea of what he looks like overall.) I noticed something freaky was going on with its feathers and I was kinda worried until I realized they looked an awful lot like...
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    Can wry neck spontaneously appear and disappear?

    I have a house chicken, a silkie, named Molly (who hatched chicks the other day) and she lives in my room. This morning I got up to hear Molly's chicks peeping, scared, and when I looked, Molly was on her side, struggling, practically seizing. She stopped when I picked her up, but her neck was...
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    Something wrong with this chick's feathers?

    My silkie Molly is hatching her own chicks for the first time; they're all silkie/booted bantam crosses. Everything's going fine, but one of them has something up with the feathers on its back. It's as if the feathers/feather casings (whatever they are, if those are even on chick fuzz) on its...
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