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    Sour Crop?

    How can you tell if one of your hens has a sour crop? I feel like one of my hens has a very large chest, like a tennis ball size. She is a barred rock and the whole flock will be a year in June. She seems to be acing normal. I noticed it because she seems to have some matted feathers in that...
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    Rare chicken breed..Ayam Cemani

    Has any one raised or had these beautiful black chickens? And if you have where have you bought them? I would love to have a few of them in my flock! :) They are the "lamborghini of poultry" everything about them is black .
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    Whole oats? Soaked oats?

    I have been mixing whole oats with my chickens feed ( layer ) along with some black oilers and other little seeds they can pick through and they seem to love it. I read on her a while back about how whole oats can cause trouble in their crop? Someone had said that they soak their oats and let...
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    Weird Behavior

    We have a hen that has been sitting in the same nest for at lest a week know... shes always in it. I have pulled her out of it a few times and she makes funny noises at us when we open the door or act like we are going to pet her. I have thought maybe she is broody but I have not pulled any eggs...
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    New Chicken Feeders! :) Check them out!

    I have been having a problem with my ladies dumping out their food, and lots of waste of their crumbles and what ever other types of grains I feed. So I though I would share my NEW feeder! I saw this on pintrest awhile back and thought I need to try this! So for one of my Christmas presents my...
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    Feather plucking?

    I have a few hens that seem to be missing tail feathers and have bald spots right above their tails on their backs... Is this do to someone having a feather plucking issue or is it an aggression issue? Their coop has been expanded and there is plenty of room for the girls to not have any trouble...
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    HELP HELP!! Infra Red Lighing....

    OK so I have been using a a heat lamp light in my chicken coop and I been been in the process of expanding my coop due to the fact its a little to small. I have NEVER had a pecking issue like the one encountered this evening. I read the article posted on this web sight about " Winter Egg...
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    Bumps and cracks on my eggs..

    My ladies have just stared to lay their eggs! Yay! We are up to 3 eggs a day out of 15 possible. I have noticed that alot of the eggs are coming out with bumps on them and have pulled a hand full of them that are cracked :/ I have shavings in their nests at the moment but I am wondering if I...
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    How do I know when my cirls are ready to strart laying eggs?! Also A hen is making a weird noise?

    I have 15 chcikens all together 5 Barred Rocks, 5 Gold Laced Wyandotts and 5 Silver laced Wayndotts. I have had them since chicks and are about 16 1/12 weeks old. I have added new nesting boxes to their coop and they don't seem to be fans of it. I took their old roosting bar our because there...
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    Can Chickens use ash from the fire place to dust in?

    I read someplace that your chickens can use ash from the fire pit to dust them selves.. is this true? My chicks are about 2 and a half weeks old and starting to dust them selves in their bedding. I have some ash in the houses from this winter and was going to put some in their coop if its true...
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    Feeding the Chicks

    I just picked up my chicks from the feedmill this morning, I bought 15 laying hens and they told me when I picked them up they had been started on water. I was wondering how long the chicks should have food for during the day? And then do I take it away in the evening? Or can they have their...
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