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  1. Carly Avgeris

    Alpha hen may need to become dinner.

    My RIR alpha hen has become extremely aggressive in the past few weeks. She has completely plucked out all of the butt feathers of one of her fellow flock mates, and I noticed yesterday that another one is now missing all neck feathers and some butt feathers. I also spied her eating a shell free...
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    major swollen booty

    My maran has a huge swollen area under her bottom. It's soft and doughy to the touch and has no feathers. I did notice other chickens ripping a few feathers out of her too. Any idea whatthis ccould be and how to help her? Thanks .
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    is this egg fertile? I thought i had all hens.

    After cracking a freshly laid egg that I had to pry away from my young layer, I noticed this small circle in the yolk that I had always assumed meant an egg was fertile (from pictures I've seen online.) The problem is that I thought all of my ladies were ladies. If anyone could tell me if this...
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    beautiful white EE roo 5 weeks Kane co. IL

    I have a beautiful white EE who i thought was a pullet. Unfortunately I am not allowed to have roosters where I live. Very bummed because he is my favorite and most beautiful! Free to good home. Live in kane county Illinois .
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    EE pullet or roo?

    I have a new batch of what I thought were EE pullets from Ideal Poultry that are about five weeks old. Four have the chipmunk markings and then one is almost solid white. I noticed that the white one is getting more of a comb already and just looks different in body compared to the other four...
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    mystery chick

    I ordered chicks from ideal poultry two weeks ago. I ordered EE's, black Austrolaups (sp?), golden sex link, cuckoo Marans, and buff orpingtons. They sent one extra chick that I assumed was another buff, but this week I have noticed that her legs are a not the same color as the others and her...
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    opinions on hatcheries.

    I am in need of two or three more pullets as I have only four currently and one is a dud. I am not getting enough eggs, so I need to make it worth my while to own chickens. I am unable to find anyone in my area who is selling pullets. Do any of you have personal experience using someone online...
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    Need advice on a neighborly matter

    Hi all, so my problem is that we live in the suburbs and have a fenced in yard with a coop and run for our chickens. They free range in the early evening. My neighbor who we are friends withhas two pit bulls. Yesterday after ccleaning the coop, I started to feel sick and went to laydown for a...
  9. Carly Avgeris

    HELP! Dog attacked one of my girls

    This morning I noticed that my girls were running around my backyard and I had not let them out of their run. When I went to see what was going on I found my dachshund in the coop with one of the girls cornered. (This is very unlike him. He has never bothered them before and has always been very...
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    can you help me identify this Cornish?

    So back in January, my grandma showed up with day old girls. I was told that two were RIR , two barred rock, and one was unknown. We called the farm store and they said the yellow girl was a Cornish x, but they weren't certain because they were just going off of our description that she was...
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    looking for Silkie and Easter egger, kane co. Illinois

    Hello all. I am interested in finding a silke and an Easter Egger. Do any of you know of a breeder in the Chicago land, kane or Kendall co. Area? Thanks in advance.
  12. Carly Avgeris

    Coop maintenance

    Hi all, I am a little confused on how often and what exactly entails coop cleaning.( Also, feel free to list your favorite cleaning products. I am thinking vinegar and E.O's.) Which things should be done daily, weekly, monthly, ect? Our chicks are still in the brooder right now and we change the...
  13. Carly Avgeris

    One chick is being picked on!

    Our week and a half old chicks are all ganging up on one. We have two RIR's and two Barred Rock's, and one Cornish. The two sets are ganging up on the Cornish. They are pecking her, not letting her eat as often as she would like, and the four sleep together and leave her out of the pile. It's so...
  14. Carly Avgeris

    chicks won't eat organic.

    When I got our day old chicks this week, we gave them medicated chick starter. It's almost as fine as dust. Last night I bought organic chick starter feed, made by the same company as their other starter feed. When I opened the bag,I noticed the feed is a bit bigger than the fine feed they had...
  15. Carly Avgeris

    first time around

    Hi everyone. My family and I just got our first chickens yesterday. 3 days old. We are brand new at this and pretty much clueless! We've got 5 right now, and we hope they all survive! If anyone has any tips, they are welcome to share. Right now, they're in a box with news paper, shavings, food...
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