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    Injured Leg or Something Else?

    My Favorelles Rooster, Samson, is around 9 months old. Last night, my husband commented that he noticed that he was acting funny. Kind of staggering all over the place, could mate with a hen, shaking his head, and didn't go up to roost. When I expressed alarm, he added that he hadn't roosted the...
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    1st egg or 1st after molt?

    When a hen resumes laying after a molt do the eggs start out smaller? Today there was a very small egg when I went out to collect. The older gals in the flock went through their first molt this fall and a few haven't resumed laying. I have two EE pullets that I expected to start laying months...
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    My rooster has frostbite

    Background: This is my first year raising chickens. I live in Central Maine and the temps have been frigid lately, -20 some nights. I have 9 hens and a Blue Salmon Favorelles Roo named Samson. My coop is dry, no drafts blowing directly on the birds. I changed out the bedding before the cold...
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    Molt cleanup with deep litter?

    I've read somewhere that stray feathers should be removed from the coop as they can harbor pests. This is my first year with chickens and I'm doing the DLM. At this point, if I attempted to leave the shavings and remove the feathers it would take forever. I'm interested to here what other DLM...
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    Will these pullets ever figure it out?

    I have two black giant pullets that should have started laying in September, so I'm hoping for eggs any day. My older gals are molting and I'm getting zero eggs I currently have three coops going (started in May and got bit by the chicken bug!) so these BG pullets are in with a young Roo, a...
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    Rooster question- is 2 a crowd?

    My flock currently consists of 8 birds. Two are 12 week old favorelles (a pullet and a Roo) and they have not been introduced to the rest of the flock yet. Tomorrow I'm getting three more birds, they are 15 week old Ameracaunas (two pullets, one Roo.) I suspect my flock is too small to...
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    How should I divide the flock for winter?

    I'll preface this by saying that I live in Maine, we have long, cold winters! This is my first year owning chickens and I've experienced a bit of 'chicken math', so to speak. My flock currently consists of 4 LF adult laying hens, two 15 week giant pullets, and two 9 week old blue salmon...
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    New pullet won't eat or drink

    Yesterday I picked up two 14 week black giant pullets. They appeared to be living in a large horse stall with 20+ other birds. They seemed very scared when I brought them home and put them in their coop. One didn't exit the box for almost an hour. Today the same one has barely moved, she is just...
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    Pullets won't leave the coop

    Yesterday I purchased two 14 week old Black Giant pullets. They were living in a large horse stall with 20+ other pullets. I brought them home and put them in a temporary coop, thinking they were plenty old enough to live outside. It is 12:15 (my time) and they have yet to leave their coop. I'm...
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    Need advice on combining my flock

    Last month, my original flock of 5 suffered an attack which left me with 2 hens, for clarification we refer to these gals as 'the originals'. I quickly purchased two new hens (an EE & Barred Rock) and they have been quarantined in a separate coop for the past two weeks. The coops are quite close...
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    Animal or neighbor?

    A month ago, three of my 5 free range gals were taken during the middle of the day (no one was home.) The only evidence of foul play was feathers, no bodies, not even a drop of blood. So we expanded their coop and only let them free range when I'm outside with them. I ended up getting a few new...
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    My chicken saga vol. 1

    Please bear with me, this is long but I want to provide as much info as possible in hopes of getting some sage wisdom from more experienced chicken owners. I hesitated whether to post this here or under the 'emergencies/injury/disease forum', so if it belongs there please let me know. I'm...
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    And then there were 2

    About three weeks ago, a predator grabbed 3/5 birds, so for now they are confined to their coop unless we are outside with them. The two remaining birds are both one year old. Immediately after the attack I was still getting 2 eggs a day, now all of the sudden I'm lucky to get 1 every few days...
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    Three chickens gone! Predator question

    We are new to the chicken scene. Two months ago, we inherited 5 full grown birds from a sick friend. They had always been free range and enjoyed the same benefits at their new home. We were on vacation last week and my father-in-law who lives nearby was caring for girls. He came over at dusk to...
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