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    Mama Cochin has abandoned her 3-week-old chicks

    My 7-month-old hen Sweetie hatched twelve chicks 3 weeks ago, and was a wonderful mother...until a couple of days ago. Now she leaves them to go graze for most of the day and doesn't care where they are or if they are cheeping loudly for her. Last night she decided to sleep on the roost and...
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    Overwhelmed Momma Chicken?

    My 6-month-old bantam Cochin Sweetie just hatched 12 eggs yesterday (whew!) and this morning two chicks were laying out of her nest in the cold, twitching. I brought them in and warmed them up, and they seem fine now, so I put them all in a large plastic tub with a heat lamp so if any wander...
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    I think my chicken may be a turkey!

    I got these chickens as babies from our local nursery, and they are now 6 months old. This girl looks nothing like the group (one Polish, one RIR, two bantam Brahmas, two bantam Andalusians)...I wonder if she got mixed up at the store. She's tall and lanky; my kids call her Ostrich. She is...
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    Large Polish rooster aggressive towards Banties

    I have 11 chickens of assorted sizes...four are banties and the rest are larger-sized. All are 3 1/2 months old. The past few weeks my Polish rooster started being very aggressive towards my banties (3 hens and 1 rooster). Is this behavior just going to become worse the larger he gets? I...
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    introducing 10-week old chickens

    I have a flock of four grown hens, and a new flock of eleven various-sized chickens who are now about 10 weeks old. They have been raised in a coop-within-the-coop...with the older hens, but separated by fencing. My question is, some of my chickens have gotten quite large, and at 10 weeks are...
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    Newbie needs advice on flock management--to cull or not to cull?

    I have a flock of four hens just for egg-laying. I have a big boss hen, her sweet sidekick, then a red one who is clearly the "low man" of the three, and a little blind one. My blind one is (of course) my favorite, and she can usually hang out with the rest (she has to be fed alone) but the...
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    I have a bully hen, should I get a rooster?

    I have four hens. One is blind but gets around well. Our biggest hen has started to bully the other three hens, and I was told that if I get a rooster, he helps to keep the peace between the girls (Also, I would like to have new chicks). My question is, do you think he would hurt my blind...
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    Chicken has had diahhrea for three days, I'm unsure of other symptoms and need advice!

    I am a new chicken mom...my chicken "Baby" is blind, but so far has been getting around okay, but three days ago she became lethargic, stopped eating much, and has had diarrhea. First, I'll have to say that I've never even seen how my chickens lay their eggs, so I looked up chicken anatomy...
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    Hello!

    Hello, new member here...I got my first chickens ever--four hens--last September, and I absolutely love them. When we got them, three of them were several months old, and the fourth was young enough she still "cheeped." Turns out that the youngest (and my favorite) is blind. They joined our...
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