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  1. kurui

    Then and now: Show me your chick pictures AND how they look now, all grown up!

    Show me some side-by-side pictures of your birds and how they looked when they were babies! I was looking at old pictures of the first three chickens I have ever raised and was struck by just how quickly they grow- mine hit 11 weeks on Sunday and I looked back for the first pictures of them and...
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    ⠀ Help- I just found out I was sold horse feed rather than chicken feed- they've been on it for months

    I currently live in rural Spain and have very limited Spanish. I'd always wanted chickens, so I bought four POL chickens from a local supplier who also has a feed and supply business, and at the same time bought a 30 kilo bag of feed. Being new and inexperienced, and I guess a little more...
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    Acting 'hot' on the roost?

    Should I be worried about a hen roosting with her wings away from her body as if she's hot? Picture is from my spy camera. I may be being paranoid because I've recently had to deal with a case of slow crop but the hen on the right was walking around with her beak open a lot today- it was...
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    Had an egg like this? Egg laying after a day struggling with Slow Crop

    My girl Cordelia seems to have slow crop... she laid this egg (bottom right of her last six, marked in red) with red speckles on the fatter end today at around 6pm... I'm going round in circles- was her digestion blocked by this egg? I don't know if slow crop is a symptom of being egg bound, or...
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    HELP-- I think my girl has a slow crop? --update, we have an egg! now what...?

    Huge, squishy crop. This morning Cordelia's sluggish, blinking and staggering- she was fine yesterday when they were out all day free ranging. She laid an egg yesterday that was perfectly normal, ate and drank, got up to the roost by herself... I can't get to a vet. What can I do ta a) work out...
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    Will my chickens ever learn to roost?!

    I have three outdoor hens who learnt how to do it- but my 7 week old babies (still inside at nights) seem to prefer flopping out, legs all over the place, sometimes sleeping on top of each other. They do this during the day when they're outside in between bouts of beetle hunting and running away...
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    The Chicken Queens of Spain, my cuddly baby roo and his girls

    My intro thread is over here if you want the story of how I ended up getting chickens in the first place :) I'm pretty sure everyone must think I'm crazy. I have three (currently!) indoor baby chickens as it's still a bit too cold for them in the coop at night. On warm days they're out in the...
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    First-timer needs some advice- my chicks are coming up on six weeks...

    1. My roo is developing his wattles, but one of them seems uh, quite a bit bigger than the other. More accurately, one of them is hanging freely and the other one seems more... stuck under his chin, as it were. Is this normal? I tried taking a picture but he just gets too fascinated by the...
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    Do chicks moult at all?

    This is my first time raising chickens, so I welcome any advice! Thanks to this forum I found out the original three babies I brought home were all boys instead of the one boy and two girls I thought I had... thankfully we were able to swap the two extra boys for two girls. Anyway- I've...
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    Hi from Spain- New to chickens and loving it!

    Hi! I'm Rosemary- and this is my chicken adventure :D (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I'm totally new to chickens! Due to some unfortunate circumstances I'm currently living with my mum and her husband in rural Spain while I get things back together, and we...
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    First time raising chicks, can you tell me what breed these are?

    Hi! This is my first time posting. About four months ago my mum and I got four red sex link gallinas from the local chicken man (We live in Spain) and sadly one of them died. I was really upset- and then for my birthday she managed to get these three babies, I'm raising them in a cardboard box...
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