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    Wanted: Seramas and silkies, willing to pay shipping

    I'm looking for a few seramas, either pullets or trios, as well as one or two bearded silkie pullets or hens. I originally intended to buy some good quality silkie eggs and keep a pullet or two out of the hatch, but there just isn't enough local interest in the extras (especially roos) and I...
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    Please help, most of my flock is sick

    Trying to think of everything that might be relevant, so I'm sorry if there's too much information. Today 5 of my 7 chickens are ill, after seeming fine yesterday. Symptoms: Sneezing Slightly enlarged, spongy crops in all but one When they lean forward to eat or drink, they're losing the...
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    Encephalitis vaccine?

    I just saw on the news that one of the "sentry" chickens located very close to my house has tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis, and I'm worried about my girls. Is there a vaccine I can administer? So far the only other vaccine they've had is fowl pox, as there have been cases of it...
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    Filthy, feces-covered little chicks

    First off, I'm so mad that I could spit. A man from a local poultry group said that he had two young silkie girls and a Serama that he needed to find homes for. I talked to him via email, and we arranged to meet in a public place late yesterday afternoon so that he could drop the chicks off. I...
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    My kiddos

    I adore my babies, all of them, and finally got a few half-decent pictures. Chickens don't sit-stay very well, lol. I worried so much about introducing the little Serama girl to the bigger girls, but she seems to think that she's just as big as they are and they don't argue. She sleeps...
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    I came up with a solution to a sweltering coop at night.

    Well, it's not pretty, but I figured out a way to keep the girls cool on the especially hot and still nights we've been having lately. I check on them at night when it's exceptionally hot, and quite a few times I found them panting and holding their wings out because it was hot and humid with no...
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    Lots of loose droppings, advice please?

    I think that what I'm seeing may be perfectly normal, but I'm fairly new to chickens still and want to be sure. Every one of my girls has had loose, watery droppings for the past few days. No blood, no worms that I can see, and they all act completely normal, it just looks like a lot of extra...
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    Who's a hen and who's a roo?

    My little ones are just over 5 weeks old, and I keep looking for the things people say you can determine gender by. I don't think any of them are noticeably ahead of the others as far as feathering out, I can't tell a difference on anyone's comb, etc. Is it still too early to tell, or am I just...
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    My babies are two weeks old today (pics)

    The four chicks I got from my first hatch turned two weeks old today, and they're developing distinct personalities. This one is Eyebrows, at least until I know its gender: This is the nosiest of the four: The "drummer" who taps on things for most of the day...
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    Eggs, the best gift possible! =)

    A friend had six Speckled Sussex eggs sent to my house, and there ended up being 8 in the box. They were all intact, and not one of them had a rolling air cell. I set them this afternoon and already can't wait for hatch day.
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    Two week old chick not walking well, any idea what I should do?

    I have four little Barnevelder chicks, they'll be two weeks old tomorrow and have been 100% fine until now. One of them is limping when it walks, and I'm really worried. I checked its feet and legs and nothing looks different, and it let me flex and bend everything without complaint. It's...
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    What breed are these little guys?

    I'm having the hardest time getting clear pictures of them, but these are my 5 day old chicks. The eggs were sold as Barnevelder, but two of the chicks look completely different than the other two, so I wanted to see what everyone thought.
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    Need help IDing my new little peeps, please

    These just hatched out yesterday, and were sold to me as black Barnevelders. The seller's photos showed black hens and roosters with a bit of russet, and my peeps look like this: (sorry the pics aren't great, I'm letting them settle in and don't want to stress them with a photo shoot just yet)...
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    I have a run question, please

    I think I want to use sand in half of the 10x10 run and leaving the other half dirt/leaves. The coop is going to be on the sand half, elevated a few inches since we have serious rain sometimes and I don't want them having to wade around in muck. Would the bare dirt section be okay? We have very...
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    Looking at prefabricated coops, wondering if this company is okay

    Hi there, I'm brand new here and still in the early planning stages of keeping chickens. I've been looking ata lot of prefabricated coops because I'm honestly not handy enough to build one from a plan or repurpose a small shed. I can borrow a couple people to help me put one together as long as...
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