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    Moving with chickens to a new state

    I have have chicken for 6 years. I currently have a dozen. I bought various breeds so that when I get eggs that are various colors. My family intends moving it Idaho we have a two year plan. We have not decided where in that state yet. I would like to own chickens when I move. I have no clue...
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    Keeping scrub jays out of coop.

    My hens are free range and my coop is from a converted pickup shell. A scrub jay mating pair that has a nest in the yard. I hear the chicks in the nest in the tree. The nesting pair of Scrub Jays get into the coop, and destroy most of the eggs most days. I have tried curtains in the door of...
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    Chicken behavior

    My chickens get noisy on the days the garbage gets collected. I think it is the vibration. Since we have had water restrictions we have not had the sprinklers on in the morning. We are now off restrictions and my neighbor waters her back garden at the same time the chickens wake up, (I guess...
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    Injured pullet

    My two pullets are about 10 weeks old and I thought they were old enough to go in with the hens. One of them has an eye injury and has blood on her beak. I removed both the pullets from the older hens and treated the injury. I will have to wait until morning to see how she is. All the other...
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    Long weekend and eggs

    I have 10 hens that are laying on a regular basis. I have it set up that they can have enough food for 4 days and water enough for a week. I have never left then for more than 2 days. I am going away for 3 days. The temperature is suppose to be 97 degrees one of the days we will be gone...
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    Two new pullets

    I have 10 hens who are all about a year old. I have acquired two pullets who are 6 and 9 weeks old. I have the two pullets together separate . Do I keep them together even after the older one is laying and then introduce them together to the older hens? The pullets are a black copper Maran...
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    Broodiness of Olive eggers

    I have an olive egger who is less than a year old. She has gone broody 3 times since January. Are olive eggers prone to broodiness?
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    Chicken that looks like it has no balance

    Hi, One of my year old hens was laying in the backyard and looks like it has no sense of balance. She was sitting with her mouth open. I gave her some liquid, and she seems to get some more balance back. My hens are kind of free range in that they have half of the back yard to run around...
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    Predator eating the eggs

    I am not sure what predator is eating the eggs in my coop. I suspect a rat as I found a dead one in the yard this weekend. If it is a rat how do I get get rid of the rats without harming the chicken? There are also cats in the neighborhood. I don't think it is the cats getting to the eggs...
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    Restless hens

    My hens were all restless and noisy this morning. Their cries were different to the "I just laid an egg" cry. They are free range. I went to check up on the hens and found all the eggs out of the nest and broken and the nesting box toppled over. I had checked the hens about 40 minutes...
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    Broody hen with no eggs

    I am close to the maximum number of hens for the property, I have for the county I am in. Last year I had a broody hen and I got three one day old chicks and let the hen raise them. Now I have a second broody hen. I would like to know if I just leave her will she stop been broody eventually...
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    Sick hen with odor

    This is my first year of having hens and one of my hens looked like she was sitting my the middle of the yard asleep. This is my first sick hen. The hens usually follow me around. I picked her up and she has an odor to her. She has clear liquid coming from her nose. I have her under a...
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    One lost pullet

    So we worked all day to fence off a section of our yard so that the hens and pullets could mingle. Since I had the pullets and the hens in parallel runs the hens did not peck at the pullets. The alpha hen was/is the mother hen of the pullets so I think they will find their place in the pecking...
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    10 months later

    10 months ago I did not know anything about chickens or hens. I home school my sons and my youngest one has wanted more animals. We only had a couple of bunnies. He wanted a couple of chickens. So the local feed store had a sign up "baby chicks now available" and he gloated... they have...
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    Spiral leg bands

    I have the following breeds: Buff Orpington, Wyandotte Rhode Island Red Ameraucana Easter Egger Olive Egger: I went to the local feed store and I was told the size 11 spiral bands will fit all of these breeds but the band looks really loose on the hens. I tried to look for a photo of how it...
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    Storm warning

    I am not sure where this question should go. Firstly I am in California so when I say "a storm" it is not a snow storm, it is suppose to be 60 mile an hour winds and lost of rain. In the last storm we had (last week) I had to go and rescue 7 of my hens due to the structures getting destroyed by...
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    Introducing a new hen to my flock.

    I currently had 5 hens (2 are 5 months old and 3 are 6 months old). I had the opportunity to get a 6th hen who is 6 months old from someone who is 18 miles from me. So I thought that she is the same age as my older hens, and the owner of the hen participates in the NPIP and said his hens are...
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    When to put the Mother hen and chicks with the older hens

    I had a broody buff orpington hen that I bought some fertile eggs. None hatched (after 25 days) but I slipped 3 one day old chicks under her and took away the eggs. The chicks are 3 weeks old. I have the mother hen and the three chicks in the separate area to the five other hens (they are 7...
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