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    hen bleeding when laying

    Help, We have a flock of 9 laying hens, and one of our white plymouth rock's gave us an egg that had blood on it. (egg completely in-tact) When we examined her, she had blood on her as well, and the only other indication that she's not at 100% is that her comb is slightly flopped over. Is this...
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    Question about Integrating my chicks with my hens

    Hi there! I have 6 9 week old chicks, 3 Buff Orpingtons and 3 Australorps. I also have 3 pullet/nearly hens - a RI Red, a Wyandotte and a Blue Cochin. We live where it's pretty warm, so we moved our chicks in their "brooder" outdoors about 2 weeks ago, putting it inside the chicken run so the...
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    Do I have a cockrel or two?

    We are fairly new to raising backyard poultry. We started last summer when a neighbor gave us a few "extra" bantams. We had a couple of incidents, lost one to disease, a couple flew out and got lost to the dogs, then we had a massive midday raccoon massacre which brought our flock down to 3. Out...
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    Raising our backyard flock

    Hi there, My name is LeAnn, and my nearly 9 year old son, Samuel is raising our backyard chickens, in part for the fun, but also as a 4H project. We started by inheriting chickens from a neighbor who found them to be too much work (really??) and we just this past week decided to add to our...
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