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    Americana Roosters Sale

    These boys are beautiful, gentle and they just started crowing. Born on 3/13/24 they are 14 weeks old. My girls go play and hold this batch of chicks regularly so they all are gentle and willing to be pet and be held. We already have enough roosters so we need to maintain the flock. Located in...
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    Roosting Jersey Giant

    My Jersey Giant hens are not getting the point to roost on the bars in the coop. I have various roost heights. Plenty of roosting space. These are the first JG I have had so I am learning about that breed still. They keep roosting in my nests. I had blocked the nests off for weeks and they still...
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    Injured, possible broken leg?

    The photo doesn’t quite give it justice, and I am unable to upload a video on the forum, but I came home this morning to find one of my pullets, nine weeks old, appearing to have a broke leg. She can stand and move, but the left leg looks to be very weak Yesterday she was fine and she appears to...
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    Removing Mama Hen from babies.

    In the coop to the left of the photo, I have eight week old babies along with mama. When they start laying, I plan on integrating them with my existing flock. My question is at what point do I remove mama from the babies because mama is from my in-laws flock as she was broody and hatched our 12...
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    Help needed! Multiple chicken issues…

    Suggestions needed. Found my chicken out in the yard. Not really eating or drinking. Lethargic not moving around much. Found the abdomen to be swollen and figured it was water belly or egg bound. Check the vent there’s no egg I’ve dealt with water belly before drained everything with no issue...
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    Leave them or separate?

    Our 11 week old pullets have now showed us we have two roos. This morning I noticed we do have lots of feathers in the coop but idk yet if it is from fighting or not. The feathers don’t match the two Americana roos so they seem to either be either picking their girls, the Plymouth Rocks are...
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    Suggestions and critiques

    Decided to become a chick family. Read a bunch and tried to go about this right and am looking for suggestions. I built this brooder because 1) I love to build and 2) I want to do this more and wanted a good spot to raise chicks. Designed this and wanted to access chicks from side to prevent...
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    Brooder in the coop?

    I have not been able to find answers I am looking for in the search so I'll try posting. I am currently planning a new coop/run build and getting chicks for the first time. I wanted to build a brooder in the coop with the adults to keep everything in one area. I would have the chicks completely...
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    Brooder in the coop?

    I have not been able to find answers I am looking for in the search so I'll try posting. I am currently planning a new coop/run build and getting chicks for the first time. I wanted to build a brooder in the coop with the adults to keep everything in one area. I would have the chicks completely...
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    What is getting them?

    Went outside to find one of my hens got killed. Throat tore out, feathers everywhere but no sign of an attacker. I have a lab/retriever 68lbs that helps protect the girls but she was not outside at the time this happened. We have a 7’ privacy fence that we keep the girls behind and they free...
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    Ruffling feathers and bullying

    So the past few days I noticed Millie (buff Orpington) often puffing herself up and she has been more aggressive but only toward Elsa (EE). She doesn't have mites, lice, eating different or drinking different. She has no other behavior or health changes that I can see. Any ideas what may be...
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    Favorite nesting box? Really?

    Just noticing that my ladies love one particular nesting box. The thing that is weird to me is that both boxes I have are exactally the same for the exception one is on the right side and one is on the left. I am wondering if this is common wih other hens? Do your girls have favorite boxes too?
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    A perch in a coop?

    I have 4 hens and about a 4'x8' coop with two laying boxes. The laying boxes are at one end and the ramp to enter the coop is on the opposite end. The hens tend to huddle near the ramp end and stay there at night, most of the time with one of them just outside the entrance on the ramp "keeping...
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    Chicken or the egg first? Guess I'll find out...

    Hey all, new in the chicken raising bit. My wife and I have had 4 hens (unknown the type) now for about a month. We have one black and white hen (Elsa), one dark red hen (Annie), and two light brown hens (Millie and Mo). They are all about 1.5 yrs old. We get 3 sometimes four eggs per day. As I...
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