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    Bedtime Bullying

    Hello BYC Community! I have a bedtime bullying and pecking order problem. Background / Set Up: Our henhouse has a roosting perch and nesting boxes within. All 6 of my lovely ladies happy enter the hen house every evening. My original 4 ladies are about 25wks old. Months ago we were gifted two...
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    Outdoor Run Maintenance - Preventing Coccidiosis

    Hello BYC Community, I have 4 lovely ladies, about 12 wks old today actually. They live in a very nice sized coop within a fenced in pen. See pic. The pen is about 68ft in circumference (21ft diameter). The ladies free range in the pen area daily from 7am to 8pm. Naturally, the grassy pen area...
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    9wk Olds Not Going Into Hen House at Night

    Hello BYC Community! I need some advice. I have 4 lovely pullets who are about 9 weeks old now. We completed their coop about 2 weeks ago and they have been living in the coop full time since then. Pics attached. Everything's going great but they just won't go up the steps and into the hen...
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    Runt or Sick Chick?

    Hello BYC! I have a new flock of baby chicks who are now 3 weeks old (Buff Orpington, Easter Egger, Plymouth Barred Rock, Blue Plymouth Barred Rock). I snagged a pick while they were napping. As you can see my Plymouth Barred Rock is significantly smaller than the other chicks. I took some...
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    2 Wk Old Chick - Impacted Crop

    Hello BYC, I have a 2 week old chickie who I'm certain has an impacted crop. She consistently has a lump on the right side of her chest area that her 3 other sisters do not. When I message the lump, I can feel the feed within and am able to gently work it into her gizzard. I'm doing this 2 times...
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    Hello BYC Community

    My name is Auditi, This is my 2nd flock. My first was back in 2013. I currently have 4 two-week old chickies, an 8 year old daughter, 5 year old son and husband. We live in Raleigh, NC and will be building our chicken coop next week. My kiddos are loving having the chickies at home and we're...
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    HELP! Chicken with bent middle toe!!

    Hello Chicken Lovers, My darling Rhode Island Red's middle toe is super bent, nearly 90 degrees. I've been advised to straighten the toe and make a split from surgical tape and something hard. I've quarantined her and we're about to splint her tonight. Any advice on how long I should keep her in...
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    How often to use diatomaceous earth?

    Hello BYC Community, I'm having a mite problem. They are small, pale mites that DEF came from the bag of feed I bought at my local store. Now they are EVERYWHERE!! I dusted my feeder and feed with some DE and that's kept the mites off the feeder. But, for example, if I leave a glass bowl on the...
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    Help! White Spider Mites??

    Hello BYC Community! I went out to my coop today to re-fill the ladies's food bin and noticed it was COVERED with what looked like little white spider mites. I took some pics, but my camera's not that great. Are these little mites dangerous for my lovely ladies? Any advice on what I can do to...
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    Breed & Rooster or Hen??

    Hello BYC Community, I was recently gifted two 4 or 5 month old ladies and was wondering if you can help me identify what breed and gender Peaches is. Peaches is the white chickie in the pics below. Any ideas? You can't really tell from the pics but Peaches' comb is quite large. Thoughts? Thanks!
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    Soft eggs in over 1 yr old & yolks in poop

    Hi BYC Community, My nearly 1.5 year old beautiful buff orpington has been laying soft eggs for about a month now. The other day I (gently) picked her up and it was as if a yolk had burst in side of her and was dripping out of her vent. I immediately brought her inside, gave her a nice 15min...
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    1.5 Year Old Laying Soft Eggs - Help!

    Hello BYC Community! I have some concerns with Bernadette (Berns for short, pic below), my beautiful buff orpington. Berns has been laying soft eggs for the past one or two weeks. I have 3 other lovely ladies and they all have access to oyster shells 24/7 but show little interest in them...
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    Mystery Blood on Sleeping Roost, Bumblefoot?

    Hello Everyone, I have four lovely ladies which are a little over a year old now. They all seem to be very healthy but this evening I went to go collect the eggs and noticed about a 6 inch circle of died blood on their sleeping roost. I've inspected all the ladies as best as I could and there's...
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    Which to use Terramycin or Tylan 50 for sneezing & weezy breathing

    I have 4 lovely ladies but one of them has been sneezing quite often in the past month (all other ladies are fine). There is no fluid discharge anywhere of any sort and other than sneezing and weezy breathing she's acting like a normal chicken. My questions are: 1. Should I treat her with...
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    Can fake eggs encourage brooding - Egg Eater Problem

    Hello BYC Community! I have a silver laced wyandotte who has developed the bad egg eating habit. If I put in a fake plastic (colorful) Easter egg or golf ball, will that encourage her to brood? Would it encourage my other 3 ladies to brood (buff orpington, blue splash maran, cuckoo maran)? They...
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    Hen laying and eating soft, not fully formed white eggs, likesoft ping pong balls

    Hello, I have a flock of 4 ladies which I raised since they were 2 weeks old. The first of which started laying 3 days ago and I've since been blessed with three 1 to 1.5" brown to light tan eggs. However, this evening when I went nesting box the Silver Laced Wyandotte prefers, she was in the...
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    New mom with a problem

    Hello BYC, First off I'm so glad this site and community exists. You've helped me raise my 4 babies (cuckoo maran, blue splash maran, silver laced wyandotte, and buff orpington) since they were 2 weeks old. And now they are laying. So a BIG THANK YOU TO ALL. I have no proof but judging by...
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