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    2 week old chick with a bent wing

    Our chicken surprised us with chicks. She apparently had a secret nest and she just showed up one day with them. They are about 2 weeks old now. One of the chicks has a bent/broken (?) wing. It doesn't come up when she or he flaps them. The rest of them are already able to jump up onto roosting...
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    Help with duckling issues please

    I have a two questions and I'm sorry this is long. I recently got 7 Khaki Campbell ducks about 2 weeks old and 6 Magpie ducks a couple of days old. I screwed up royally at the beginning and put them all in the same brooder box. The bigger ducks trampled two of the smaller ducks. One of the...
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    Can a chicken hatch out muscovy duck eggs?

    Hello, I want to hatch out some muscovy duck eggs but I don't have a broody duck. I do have a very broody chicken. Will a chicken sit on the nest long enough to hatch out muscovy eggs since they take so much longer to hatch?
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    Blue partridge silkie?

    I let my broody Russian orloff hatch out eggs. I was told some of the eggs were blue partridge silkies. Since all the other eggs were from larger breed chickens I'm assuming this is a blue partridge silkie. Is that correct? Also, hen or roo? I was told roo because of streamers coming off...
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    Any idea what these are?

    I got a mixed dozen hatching eggs. I know the yellow one is a am EE and the all black one is a Blue Partridge Silkie. Any idea what the 2 black and white ones are? My choices are Buff Orpington, French Copper Maran, Olive Egger, and Maran Mix.
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    I got chicks!!!

    I had a broody hen so I bought fertilized eggs and put them under her. Day 21 came and went with no chicks. I had read to wait till day 23 then toss the eggs. I went out tonight to throw out the eggs and put golf balls under her and she had 3 chicks under her. So excited!!! How long before...
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    Hen not wanting to go in the coop at night

    We stopped free ranging our girls about a year ago due to a hawk. Recently I started free ranging them in the evenings because I want them to get more plants and bugs since they eat anything I try to grow in their run before it can get started. It's not safe,but it's safer in the evenings then...
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    chicken molting in almost 0 weather

    I just went out to give my chickens treats and I noticed one of them seems to be molting. This is my first winter with chickens, but I don't believe that is normal to molt when the outside temperature is 2. We don't heat our coop because of the many things I read on your forums about coop...
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    Did my chickens kill one of their own?

    I've posted before about my crossed beak chicken Amelia. We found her in a nesting box this morning and her head was gone. All other chickens are fine and their is no sign a predator git in. Did my other chickens kill her? If so, why? She has been in the flock for months with no issues...
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    Can she lay eggs?

    I have a severely crossed beak chicken that is about the right age to start laying eggs. We feed her a mash twice a day but she is still small compared to her same age flock. She's feisty and seems healthy other than being small. My son just asked me if she would ever lay eggs. I had always...
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    Question about bonded pair

    Not sure if this is where this goes but..... I got 6 chickens in a group and later got 2 EE chickens that are several months younger. My 2 EE's are very bonded. If you see one you see the other. They always roost next to each other and get stressed when separated. Amelia has a severe crossed...
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    Why did they stop roosting?

    When I first got my 7 chickens they all slept in the nesting boxes in big huddles. 5 didn't matter, but Cleo and Amelia were always in the same box with no other chickens. One by one they started sleeping in the roost at the top of the coop. Cleo and Amelia too but they stayed on the opposite...
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    whose eggs are these?

    The 4 larger brown are from my isa. At least 2 other birds are laying the smaller pinkish ones. I have 2 rir's and 2 barred rocks that should all be the right age. I have 2 ee's but they are 2 months younger than the rest. Any idea who is laying the pinkish eggs?
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    Do your chickens talk?

    I've only had chickens for four months and I'm amazed at all the different vocalizations they have. My favorite has to be Henrietta's flock call. Twice a day she will call the flock back together and she sounds like a barking dog. She is a barred rock. I have a RIR that can make a horrible...
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    Hello

    Hi, I'm Susan and I found your forum today while looking for advice. Love how much information is on here. I've had chickens for about 4 months now. I have an isa brown, 2 barred rocks, 2 rhode island reds, and 2 easter eggers. Sadly I lost my other isa brown this morning to a hawk. Thanks...
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    Need a one week quick fix for a flock problem

    I'm new to the chicken game and need a one week solution to a problem. We got six chickens 4 months ago and then two chickens 2 months ago. One of the two, Amelia, is a scissor beak chicken. We had a 25' x 50' dog pen that wasn't being used so we built an 8' x 8' coop with a 10' run inside...
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