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    Over mating rooster - hens with bloody heads

    Ok, I've heard of folks trying to mitigate over mating roosters by using saddles on the hens, but I'm not sure what to do about missing feathers/bleeding at the back of the hens' heads. I have 1 rooster and 19 hens (soon to be 26 when I introduce my young pullets to the coop) and only 1 or 2 of...
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    Moved to a new coop - Sleepy hen is SICK!

    Hi BYC folks! Last weekend my husband and I re located our existing chicken run to a new place in the pasture. All 5 hens are eating/pooping/drinking normally. 4 of them are laying (the EE chooses not to lay regularly during the winter). However, we noticed that our Brahma hen is really...
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    Wattle injury? - What IS this??

    Yesterday I was rounding up the ladies when I noticed that my 1 yo Speckled Sussex had (what looked like) poo or mud on her wattle. I scooped her up and I found a 1.5" hard "thing" protruding out from her wattle on the top and down near the bottom where her wattle attaches to her neck. (In the...
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    Wierd Laying Behavior

    Question Folks: I have a small backyard flock of 10. They free range during the afternoon (after work) but otherwise are confined to a fenced in/roofed run with a wooden coop inside of it. Oddly, all of my hens prefer to roost on top of the coop rather than on the roosting poles inside the...
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