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    Fencing for babies, broody mom question

    So the simple way of asking: **** 1) Is the larger holed chicken wire safe for preventing hatched babies from going through? Or will they have no desire to go away from mom? (Or by the time they want to, they can't fit?) Our chicken pen is roughly 40x40 ft or bigger. it is field fencing...
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    After care of assumed vent gleet

    So I have a Buff Orpington hen who has *I assume* to be vent gleet. (No one else of 15ish hens and chickens is sick) She shows all the symptoms that are associated with it: Very dirty stinking butt, and she liquid spray-pooped very stinky poop on my when I picked her up. VERY lethargic, fluffed...
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    Hen making funky sound

    Hello all. So I came home earlier to today and noticed that one of my hens is making a funny sound. She makes it repeatedly, almost as a cat would purr (it is not chicken purring to my knowledge, though I can't say I know for sure what that is lol) I just know I have never heard any of my...
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    Will hens take back ousted head rooster? :(

    I have 13 hens 3-6 yr old hens, 1 Polish 3 yr old rooster, and his (2) one year old sons. Up until yesterday they happily co-existed, with the sons knowing their place was low. Well I guess yesterday one son had had enough and did some small fight matches with his father, and evidently dad...
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    Mom is done raising her 6ish week olds :) Now what?

    Hello all! My first time posting to the baby chick area. :) So as my title says, my momma hen has deemed her brood of 3 to be old enough to not need her. She went to bed in the main coop last night and the babies finally figured out momma was done and went into their tarped dog crate coop and...
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    Feeding babies when with others/mom, and other raising questions

    I did some searching of the threads hoping for an answer, but don't seem to be finding what I am looking for. I am letting a broody have her way and see if she can raise up some babies for us (obviously we have a rooster, lol, so hopefully some of the eggs I gave her are fertile). Right now...
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    ? on letting broody keep eggs after consistently taking them

    Okay, so I don't think I have seen this anywhere. We have 2 one year old BO hens in a group of 14 hens and one rooster that have been going broody off and on all summer. We had been lifting them off the nests and taking the eggs, figuring we have enough birds laying that if they aren't right...
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    odd color in Sp. Sussex hen's eye

    Hello all! I have a question about my ~1 yr old Speckled Sussex hen. Pretty much from the the point I got her at about 4 months of age, I have noticed she has a light blue colored haze in her right eye, more specifically predominately over the pupil. I thought it was due to going blind in that...
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    Egg storage

    How long will eggs last when stored in a room in the house that is 70-80 on a regular basis? Thanks!
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    feeding whole seed style feed vs. pellet/granule

    So anyone who feeds the whole seed style feed... a couple of questions for the chicken experts: 1- Do you wonder about getting the proper nutrition with seed style feed, since the vitamins are a dust of sorts mixed in and can be picked around.... and 2- Those that feed seed style feed- do your...
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    during molt, do they self-separate?

    Okay, so I am new to chickens... Have eight 7-8ish month olds, no issues there. Also have five fully adult hens, about 2-3 years old, I was told. This morning I noted lots of feathers in the coop, all from the same bird. As the day has progressed, she has been losing more. She is naked necked...
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    Removing Blu-Kote from clothing

    Okay, wasn't sure where to put this, but hey- it is technically medical related! lol So we've been having to spray Blu-Kote on our Polish Crested rooster's head to help hide his pin feathers as the grow back in (they got taken out by the older rooster at the house he came from, which is why we...
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    walk through screen door for chickens

    Okay, so here is an interesting question for you. I would love to have better fly control inside the coop- it is rather gnarly in there with flies, even with the fly catcher on the outside with yummy rotten meat in it. I do clean poop every day.. but still, they are chickens, ya know? My...
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    A new one: pooped a soft egg from roost during night?!

    Okay, so I haven't the slightest how to google this one! I was cleaning the night's poop our from under the roosts just now, and there is a soft busted egg, with yolk and white, mixed in with the poop. I didn't see any evidence of having purposely laid it there (all the nearby poop is not...
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    time for feather growth- crown of Polish crested rooster

    Okay, so I did a search, but can't find anything that quite matches my question. I have a Polish crested rooster who is about 6-7 months old, along with 7 girls his same age, and 5 adult hens. He came to me missing the majority of his crown feathers due to the other adult rooster where he had...
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    Can rooster count?!

    Yes, my title is correct! I have 9 hens and a rooster living together. I lock their coop at night, so they can't get out without me. So in the mornings I go and let them out. It has happened multiple times- they all start pouring out, chattering about what this morning's human treat for them...
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    Best dust for mites?

    Okay, so I bought a new to me coop Tuesday and it came with 5 chickens. I saw one had a bit of a goopy butt. So I looked closer, and a chunk of what I can only assume was old poop and bedding was stuck to her butt feathers. I got it off. But I did see that her butt feathers are rather dirty and...
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    Got some new chickens- any help IDing?

    Hello BYCers! So I bought a new to me used coop, it came with 5 chickens to add to my 8... Anyone wanna help me ID the few I can't? I know there is a Barred Rock, in the background, no worries there! The black one I think is a Black Astralorp? She has a huge comb and waddles! Seemed similar to...
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    Looked, but didn't see info regarding this type of integration.

    Hello all! First, thank you for tolerating another flock integration question! Here it is: I currently have 8 chickens- 1 Polish rooster and 7 just coming into laying hens. All are the same age, all raised together. Get along great. Have a ~30ft x 40ft pen and a coop they live in. I am...
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    Sick Hen? Moves slow, looks sleep, shaking

    Hello! I am hoping someone can provide some information and advice as to what might be wrong with one of my hens. I have 9 chickens- 8 hens, 1 rooster. All are the same age, came from the same person, who got them at a feed store at the same time. The hens are just starting to lay- so 5-6...
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