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    Gender of month old chicks?

    Any educated guesses as to the gender of these two? They’re a frizzle Cochin banty and buff polish crested. My guess is both cockerels based on crest shape snd attitude/behavior of the polish. I’m not so sure about the frizzle. Her behavior sometimes matches the polish and her comb and wattles...
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    Lethargic 6 year old hen with pale comb and wattles seems to be getting worse. Is it parasites?

    My 6 year old mixed breed Bantam buff Orpington/buff Brahma has been lethargic for about a week now. She has separated herself from the flock (11 total all mixed breeds and ages, all but one are hens) which she’s not done before. She’ll stand around all puffed up, even in mild weather looking...
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    Hens Fighting

    Two hens who have been flock mates for 2 years now have suddenly started fighting each other. We separated them several times and they seem to draw straight back into a fight, drawing blood. A little background: We tried several times this summer to hatch eggs and 4 of my 6 hens were...
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    Hen hatched chick...how long to keep separate?

    After three failed attempts with several broody hens this summer, one hen finally managed to hatch a single egg today, and the chick is adorable. Dottie is a buff brahma/buff orpington cross (bred by two chickens I started raising three years ago). I raised Dottie and her 3 siblings when they...
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    Does anyone have experience with a hen choking on egg?

    My daughter discovered my year old (got her last March as a new chick) Silver Laced Wyandotte lying in the yard this afternoon. I thought she might have been hit by a car, but she wasn't near enough to the road to make it where she way laying. She had egg yolk coming out of her nostrils and...
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    Eye injury to Rooster

    I have a mixed flock of 13 with 2 roosters, and yesterday, someone dropped a stray young cockerel in my yard. Needless to say, he and my dominant rooster had a run in, and my rooster's eye is shut. As he's a silkie and his eye and surrounding areas are all black, it's hard to tell what the...
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    Snow and Flock Splitting

    I've had my original flock of 7 for two winters (this being their second), and three young hens since this spring. It snowed pretty hard Thursday afternoon/evening, and when I went to close up the hens at dark I only found 5 of the 9. So after searching in about 4 inches of snow I found the...
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    22 week old leghorns not laying yet

    Okay, so here I go again with more newbie questions. I have a mixed flock of 8 birds, two leghorns--one white and one brown. They are 22 weeks old, and neither of them is laying yet. Actually none of my birds are laying yet, but I heard that leghorns mature fast and start laying as early as...
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    Hen start roosting alone in bushes

    Hi there, I have a mixed flock of 8 birds, with 2 cockerels. Two nights ago, as I closed up the coop I noticed one of my hens was missing (brown leghorn, 5 months old). They have always been so good about going into the coop around sunset/dusk (since May when I moved them to the coop from...
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    How to keep roosters and hens separate

    I am a new chicken keeper, and have a flock of 8 different birds I purchased as day old chicks back in March. Two of the chicks turned out to be roosters: a black silkie and a bantam buff brahma. (The rest: buff orpington, black australorp, RIR, partridge cochin, white leghorn, and brown...
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    Enough Coop Space?

    In reading another thread about the right amount of coop space, I'm worried. I have an old jungle gym tower approximately 3 x 3 that we have converted into a coop for our new chicks: 5 regular sized hens, and 3 bantams. Will this coop, plus an 8 x 4 ft run be enough for them in winter? We...
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