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    Large fluid filled mass on pullet's hip/rear

    About a week and a half ago I noticed my 9 week old Easter Egger pullet was holding her tail off to the side. I checked her and felt a large probably 2 and 1/2 inch in diameter mass (ball) on her rear to the right of her vent. I knew she was in no way old enough to lay so she wasn't egg bound or...
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    Egg comparison Pics

    I'm always looking for threads where I can see the difference in color and size of eggs but I end up hopping a million threads. I think it would be nice to have a mixed carton thread. Hopefully people will participate. If you have multiple breeds of chickens please line up your eggs in good...
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    Chicken limping and running in a zig zag.

    My RIR Phillie is 5 months old. She's always been behind the other chickens in every way. She's smaller, feathered in funny, very quiet, not social with the other chickens etc. I noticed recently she walks funny. It's kind of like a hoppy limping but she is still very quick. I managed to corral...
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    Need opinions on breeds for small backyard flock, least flighty

    I have 4 feed store type birds right now. Welsummer, EE, Production RIR, and Black Sex Link. I want to add some prettier birds to my flock. I have the space for a few more. I have some breeds picked out and would like opinions on which are most likely to cause trouble by flying over walls. We...
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    Residential neighborhood chicken math

    My boyfriend's parents thought we were nuts to get chickens and roll their eyes when I talk about getting more. I've only had them 4 months and I'm already plagued with chicken math problems. We live in a residential neighborhood in Scottsdale. Our property is about 1/4 acre with a small...
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    Make your chicken a meme

    Not sure if there's already a thread like this but I took a picture today that just needed a caption so I added some text meme style. I'd love to see what other ones people can come up with out of pictures of their chickens. A typical meme font is impact in white with a black outline. Have...
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    Resin Shed Coop

    We moved into our house almost a year ago and around 6 months in we discussed getting a few chickens and started trying to figure out where to put a coop/run. We only have about 1/4 acre property and being in the southwest most of the landscaping is rock instead of grass and we have a large pool...
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    Is this typical molting for a 15 week old?

    My BSL has lost most of her tail feathers. She had a nice beautiful full tail and now she's down to only a few feathers. I've never been through a molt and since they're still pre-egg laying I didn't really expect them to molt much this year. For the most part the molting I've noticed on the...
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    Should I let them sort it out?

    The past week or so my 4 3 month old pullets have been starting to change in personality. I think they're in the process of sorting out the pecking order. Up until now they've all been very docile and nice to each other. I noticed in the past week whenever they go out to free range which is only...
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    Red pullet or roo?

    I had posted a pic of all my different breeds a little while back and the people who responded said they were all pullets. My red (sold as RIR but assuming production red) is starting to worry me though and someone in the RIR thread said it is most likely a roo so I'd like more opinions. She's...
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    Finished our run (coop still in the process)

    Finally got my side yard back in order from building the run and converting the shed into a coop. It has been a mess with trash and scrap wood everywhere. My boyfriend and I are NOT carpenters and made everything up as we went along. We only let the girls in the run during the day (locked up in...
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    First time owner dealing with sour crop

    I have only owned chickens for 2 1/2 months or so. That's the age of my four girls. I noticed yesterday my EE doing the neck jerky thing trying to adjust her crop and I noticed a small amount of mucus on the run floor while I was doing their mite and lice check up. I didn't know which one spit...
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    Adding a couple "fancy" breeds to existing flock

    I recently got 4 chickens, they're about 2 1/2 months now. We have made our coop and run large enough to accommodate at least 6 chickens. Right now we have 4 standards of different breeds RIR, EE, Welsummer and Black Sex Link. I would love to get a couple of the fancier breeds like silkies...
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    My 4 birds- gender confirmation help

    I'm a new chicken owner and have 4 different breeds about 9 weeks old. All were feed store purchased and supposed to be sexed at the hatchery but there is always human error so I just want to make sure I'll be able to keep all 4. The one is a black sex link so I'm pretty sure I'm safe there as...
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    Securing resin shed "windows"

    We decided to convert our existing resin shed into a coop. Living in Scottsdale AZ with temps up to 115F we know we need to add some more ventilation. There's 2 small plastic windows we were planning on knocking out and replacing with hardware cloth and making a curtain/shade/cover to make it...
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    New chicken owner in AZ

    My boyfriend and I moved into our house about 6 months ago and contemplated chickens for a long while. We finally went and got our 4 chicks yesterday. We found a small, well established livestock supply store. The people there were very knowledgeable and helpful. We weren't sure about which...
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