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    Help integrating 6 week old pullets into adult flock with 2 guineas

    Happy chickening to you all! We have 6 week old pullets that I feel are ready to be integrated with our established flock. Our flock is all adult hens, 2 austrolorp, one dominique and one polish with one polish rooster. We just downsized our flock at the auction, we used to have so many more...
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    "Fallow coop" OK for occasional foraging?

    Hi there! Hope all the chickens are well tonight! We are in the process of building a new coop area. I know that once the chickens transition to their new coop the old coop will be ripe with growth... Our plan is to let the coop lay fallow for a year and then transition the flock back over...
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    Hybrid?

    Hi there, Here is a photo of Goldie, our mystery chicken. She is about 5 months old and very petite. Nice personality, never aggressive with any other hens. Beautiful golden color with dark-brown (maybe black) feathering on wing tips and tail tips. Any ideas on the breed? Some type of...
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    Cuddly hen, respiratory illness & lower egg production

    Hi all, This site is great! I usually find the information that I need without having to post. We are a new chicken family, our oldest hens are 7 months old. We now also have 1 hen and 1 rooster that are 4-5 months old as well as an "elderly" white hen and four youngsters that are 3-4...
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    FREE RANGE??

    Hi there, I am relatively new to backyardchickens.com and have 15 chickens. This is our first flock, and it has turned into more of an adventure than I expected. I also enjoy the chickens much more than I expected! We have 15 chickens: 5 black Austrolorp hens, 1 Rhode Island White hen, 3...
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    Greetings from Alabama - hen with impacted crop

    Hi everyone. This site has so much information regarding crop issues, thanks for all that good advice! We have 1 rooster and 9 hens in a huge pen with hen house. We really like our chickens, and they actually are lots of fun to spend time with. Sounds like an impacted crop is a common...
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    Impacted Crop - if culled, is meat still fit to eat?

    Hi there, One of our young hens (only 4 months old) has what I believe to be an impacted crop. The swelling has increased dramatically over the last six hours. We have given her a bit of oil, and also a bit of water with baking soda. I have massaged her crop several times as well. We are...
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