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    The Pecking Circle

    Our 4 pullets, who are close to a year old, have a strange dynamic: there is a "pecking circle" rather than the traditional top to bottom thing. The top chicken pecks only on number 2, the second and third both peck on the littlest chicken who is the bottom one. Here is the weird part- the...
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    Blue/green feathers showing up on my BR

    Otis is an odd bird, both in body and mind. She is a barred rock bantam from MPC who is about 17 weeks old. She recently went through a quick molting. Today I was quite surprised to see a couple black/blue/green feathers have appeared. Does this mean there are some black plymouth rock...
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    Bantam EE Roo?

    Harvey is supposed to be a girl, but that seems less and less likely. Harvey is the alpha of the group, and bigger than the others as well. S/he's 4 weeks old and has a comb that was yellow a few days ago, but really changing colors. Any thoughts?
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    Grit for 2 week-old chicks?

    I have a small box in the brooder filled with parakeet grit. My 2 week old chicks like to lay around and take dust baths in there. They also seem to eat a fair amount of grit. My question is: Can young chicks eat too much grit?
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    Help with sick chick. Runty? sick? both?

    We're having trouble with our 9 day old BR bantam. She's not moving well, poor balance, lethargic. In the second photo, you can see that her crop looks swollen. It felt squishy. As Jennifer gave it a little massage, she felt a release of tension, then a little clear liquid came out of the...
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    Gary the wonder chicken!

    Jennifer and I had posted this thread regarding our chick problems: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=199989 A faulty thermometer seems to have been the problem, thank you all for your help. Now, about Gary. She stopped eating and drinking yesterday morning. We started...
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    Raining on Jennifer's parade

    My girlfriend was in the process of signing up for this forum and I decided to do the same. Google "autofill" really works...I finished before she did and when she tried to register she was told she'd have to wait because this IP address had just been used to register an account. She said...
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