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    Adding started pullets to flock of two...and what happens if I get down to one?

    Predation has reduced my original flock of 5 down to two laying hens. My coop is good for 4 hens. They free range in a limited area during the day and coop is for sleeping only. I am ok with two chickens, we get just enough eggs. And I know what to do, from reading here, to add to my flock of...
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    My Chicken Just Ate a Ponytail Elastic

    One of those generic black elastic hair ties. Good Lord, they eat some strange things! Will she be ok?
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    Solutions For My Coop Shortcomings?

    I would appreciate some advice on what to do about my existing coop, a prefabricated A-frame that was marketed as a chicken tractor for 6 to 9 chickens, which I now know it is too small for. Photos are at the end of this post. The coop is about 5’ tall, and measures, at the bottom, 66” long...
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    Raising chicks in sight of adult flock

    I may decide to get two or three new chicks to eventually add to my existing flock. I want to keep them on my screened kitchen porch, where my three laying hens live just outside. The chicks will go from Rubbermaid bin to dog crate as they mature, and I would have them out to explore on the...
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    Chicks or started pullets to add to my flock?

    I realize this is not a new question, but everyone's situation is different. I started my chicken experience with 5 chicks last April. They grew into four fine laying hens and one that had a genetic problem and never matured. This last one vanished without a trace about three months ago. My...
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    What got my best EE hen

    Yesterday, sometime in the afternoon or early evening, something got my Spot, my beautiful black and white EE hen. I did not get home until half an hour after dark, and when I went to close the coop Spot was missing from the roost. The coop is in a large yard surrounded by a 4' field fence. I...
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    Hen not satisfied with nest boxes....well, not exactly...

    Seems I was asking the wrong question, wanting to know if anyone else had experienced a hen so frustrated with the nesting situation that she was dropping eggs on the ground in the middle of the yard. What I should have been asking wasn't why my hen was doing this, but why the eggs were in the...
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    Hen not satisfied with nest boxes and stressing out.

    My 10 month old EE, Spot, is behaving strangely the last couple of weeks. She has always gotten pretty anxious when she feels her egg coming, and has a habit of frantically pacing back and forth along our screen porch, sometimes for hours. In the past she has always eventually settled on one...
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    Pullet Not Maturing As Expected

    This isn't an Emergency, I don't think it is a Disease, and it isn't an Injury and I don't need a Cure, but I am not getting any response where I put this on the Barred Rock thread, so... My Barred Rock, Cuda, just turned six months old, yet she still looks like a four month old. Her comb is...
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    Watery poop in chicken that was viciously hen pecked

    Is this a problem, or not? This is what is mostly coming out of Cuda today, who is healing up on my porch after being horribly pecked up in the coop during the night a few days ago. She lost a lot of blood that night. Her overnight poops from last night looked normal. The tiny red dots are not...
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    Chicken attacked by flock during night

    This morning after I opened the coop to let everyone out, I looked in the roost area/nest box area to see if I had any eggs, and saw blood all over the foil I put down over the wire floor. Horrified, I examined the chickens and found that my one Barred Rock, Cuda, was all bloody where her comb...
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    5 Week Old Chicken holding one eye closed

    My EE, 5 weeks old, is suddenly holding her left eye closed and acting somewhat lethargic. Any thoughts?
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    Stephanie from Florida

    Hi, I am chicken Mom to my first flock of five birds, four weeks old, and they have been growing up in first a very large Rubbermaid bin, and now in a 24" x 36" dog crate. My six year old granddaughter named them. We have Bailey and Lisa, the buff Orpingtons, Honey and Spot, the Easter Eggers...
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    4-week old chick almost lost to hawk and acting strangely

    A hawk dove on my 4-week old chicks while I was giving them outside time in an x-pen fence, like what you use for dogs. It all happened so fast I am not sure if the hawk ever actually touched any of the chickens, but when it was over one of the chicks was stuck between the bars of the fence. She...
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