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    Finding Eggs, Some Are Pus Filled

    Okay, I've had this happening with my small flock of 10 birds. They are a mixture of 1 Golden Lace, 4 Rhode Island Reds and 5 cinnamon queens. So each lay slightly different colored eggs (very light brown, a salmon color and dark browns...the dark one comes from Betty my single Golden Lace)...
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    Our Duck Was Attacked, Not Using Legs

    Last night, one of our ducks, James was attacked by dog. I didn't see the attack, but had my niece run in with the duck in her arms to our house and plopped him in my doorway, then ran back out to get the dog. Inspecting James, looks like he lost some feathers, both wings have a small puncture...
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    Need Duck Advice

    Ducks.....it had to be ducks! We have two Mallards that we adopted from a neighbor a few months ago, and I know next to nothing about ducks. I've been spending the last year and a half learning all I can about chickens, but ducks? Nope, don't know anything really. My neighbor had six Rhode...
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    Egg Breaking Suddenly Stops

    So for a couple of months I've been having issues with my hens breaking open and eating the eggs that are laid. I've got six Rhode Island Reds and six Cinnamon Queens. I'd tried quite a few things: Filling the eggs with mustard, filling the eggs with dish soap, distraction toys like golf balls...
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    Blood On Egg

    A couple of days ago I noticed one of my hens is laying their egg with blood streaked on it. I've never seen this before. Unfortunately, I don't know which hen it is as they all lay their eggs in the same spot. Here is a picture of the egg. The blood washes right off of course, but I'm...
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    Outside Chicken Came And Joined Our Flock

    Last week, as I was waking up with a cup of coffee, I looked out my door towards my chicken run and saw a chicken outside the run. At first I was like "Oh crud! Betty got out!" because at first glance it looked like my Golden Laced chicken Betty. But then I realized that it was smaller, tail...
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    Introducing New Chickens To Existing Flock Questions

    I've been reading through here on this, and basically what I'm seeing is the answer is: Depends....with about 100 different suggestions, hehehehe. I'm thinking it also has a lot to do with each situation too. So I'm going to post mine, and would appriciate any advice, tips and suggestions...
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    Thinking Our Chicks Are Almost Ready For Outside

    The "Silver" Laced chicks that we got from Tractor Supply (I put the word silver in quotes, because as you can see from their feathers, they don't look silver to me, heh) we think are going from 4 weeks to 5 weeks old. We do not know how old they were when we got them. My guess is about 2...
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    Warming light: leave on at night?

    Brought home 6 Silver Lace Wyandotte chicks from Tractor Supply today. I have them in their Brooder, but being a first timer at this, my wife asked me: "Do we leave the warming light on all night?" I of course have no idea. I would think in order to keep them warm, the light has to stay on...
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    Have no idea what breed of chickens these are, any help?

    Would like to now what kind of chickens that adopted us are. We live in Aiken, South Carolina We were adopted by 4 hens after an invasion of about 12. All 4 that adopted us are white with brown spots here and there. The feathers around their necks is a very light yellow/amber color. Very...
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    Was Adopted By Chickens

    Hi there! My name is Andy Legate and I live here with my family in South Carolina. Several weeks ago, we were "adopted" by 4 hens. There were actually about 10 to 12 hens that invaded our land here (about 10 acres that we live on). They came from a neighbor that had pretty much abandoned them...
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