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    Help! Need chicken yard landscaping advice!

    Hi there! We do urban chickening, and have given over half of our yard to be exclusively the girls. They do free range the whole yard, but, occasionally lock them just on their side. They also have a coop and enclosed run. The coop and run are not part of our issue. Our problem is the...
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    Chick making strange squeaky like a cuckoo clock noise

    Hi there, We recently (2 weeks ago) gave one of our silkies a few babies from a well respected feed store (who got them from a hatchery). They had not been exposed to any adult birds prior to ours, and no one but adult employees handled them. One of the babies was fine yesterday, but is now...
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    French black copper maran gender?

    Hi there, I am new to marans, and have been going back and forth about the gender of this little sweetie. Hoping it is a she, but wasn't sure because of the comb size. "Copper" is about 10.5 weeks old in this pic. Not a lot has changed in the last week. Face occasionally pinks up (not red)...
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    Mama silkie decided not to take her chicks to bed....

    Help! Our silkie has suddenly lost all sensibility. She had been broody for several months when we decided enough was enough and we put babies under her. They are a little over a week old now, she adores them, chirps and trills like she's shouting orders. :). However, yesterday she shocked me...
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    Is corid safe to use on week old chicks?

    We just lost a baby that we got from a local farm and feed store (they got them in Wednesday from a hatchery, we picked her up Thursday, and she seemed weak all day yesterday), we had tucked two under our broody Silkie behind. She is an excellent and doting mama. Not sure if the baby we lost...
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    Mouse made a burrow under the corner of my coop!

    HELP! I just saw a mouse this morning when I went to let my girls out!!! It actually came up and looked at me! ICK! Going to toss all the chicken food and water, but, what can I do to kill these dang things without harming my girls? I think I could probably tuck some poison in a corner, and...
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    breed?

    We've had this little cutie since early August. She is about 6-7 months old. Only weighs about 1.5lbs. She is a bantam breed of something. We were initially told she was a Cornish game hen. But I have looked those up. She doesn't have the sleek look that the ones I saw online. She has no...
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    What to put in a 4x4 raised bed in the chicken yard?

    We had built a raised 4x4x1.5 high veggie bed for our daughter's playhouse, which is now enclosed in the chicken yard. Last year we planted pumpkins for the first time, it worked well but they quickly outgrew our space and rambled onto the ground. Our chickens gobbled up the vines and tiny...
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    What do You give your chickens for Christmas?

    We're new to chickens this year and wanted to share the holiday and winter love with our girls. I'm curious if I'm alone and nuts, or if others do it too. Here's the link to a recipe to a seed wreath I am going to attempt...
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    Normal that my EE stopped laying?

    Hi there, we have a gorgeous EE who is now 35 weeks old, and she stopped laying for us just after Thanksgiving, right around when it started getting really dark and much cooler. We live in the Pacific Northwest. We don't keep a lamp on them, the occasional heat lamp for an hour after it goes...
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    Help!! Can I turn off the heat lamp?

    Hi there, we've had chickens since June of this year, but we got them at about 6-10 weeks old. One of our silkie girls went broody so we picked up two chicks yesterday and tucked them under her. They are 3 days old today. We live in the Pacific Northwest and it's supposed to get into the low...
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    Breed? Just plain EE? And what color?

    Here is a picture of our then 5 month pullet Gracie. She just started squatting for me yesterday, so I know she's a she! Anyway, any thoughts on the breed and what color is she considered? I was told she was an Ameraucana, but I am guessing considering how hard it is to actually know that...
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    What do we do? Frustrated...

    So, a few of our girls had gotten a bug, that has slowly worked its way around. A few have gotten better, a few have needed to be medicated. We took our girls to a vet that sees chickens. We were given enerofloxacin. I guess the other name is baytril. We medicated one girl, she was doing...
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    Safest treatment for lice?

    I was scrolling through trying to find an updated more organic treatment for lice. I can't seem to find any recent threads, and I know some treatments are no longer considered the most safe. Today while giving one of my chickens her medicine, I noticed knots by her mouth, she is an Easter...
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    Pullet or roo?

    We just traded in our silver laced brahma roo for what we hope is a girl. Colorations are much more white across most if her body (with exception of tail and head). Her colors are so different than our roo's were in fact that I am guessing she is a pullet. The breeder had put her in with her...
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    Do hens also have the skinnier feathers by their tail?

    Hi there, we have a now 20 week silver laced dark brahma, that we were assuming is a pullet. We have not been able to gauge her gender by her colorations as this was the first time the breeder had bred her silver laced brahma rooster with a dark brahma. I am praying she is a she, because she...
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    Injured pullet

    Hi there, one of our poor girls was injured tonight by our dog when she and another hen escaped their enclosure. They range in a fully enclosed and fenced area, and I believe the gate may have not latched fully. They are Brahmas, and I think they may have pushed their way through to the other...
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    Super sleepy pullet

    Hi there, we just got a speckled Sussex, about 11-12 weeks old. She's been super sleepy since we got her. Just prior to getting her, she was treated for 10 days with duramyacin for a respiratory infection by the breeder (who had been given the pretty girl). Anyway, she's tired and has runny...
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    Fresh corid daily, or can I mix up a batch and give it to them fresh daily?

    Hi there, just got some new chickens (4, and 7 month silkies, and 11 week speckled sussex) and am treating them with Corid as a preventative measure. We lost one of our girls to coccidiosis and don't want the girls under quarantine to also become sick. We have them in our side yard, and I know...
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    Mites or lice?

    I just brought two silkies home today, and have them in quarantine. Am going to be taking them for a once over at the vet Wednesday, but I saw an exoskeleton of a brown looking bug on the tail feathers of my white silkie. The breeder seemed to think they were likely mites, as there have been...
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