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    Chick not thriving, recurring pasty butt

    We picked up ten chicks from a local hatchery this past Saturday. They were a day and a half old. One of the babies, a Cochin bantam, is not doing as well as the rest of the birds. It's not growing as much, has kind of a funny stance, and we are cleaning pasty butt off of it every single day...
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    "The miracle of life"

    Just want to post a success story. Father's Day 2019, a neighbor dog and its five young puppies got out and decimated our flock that was roaming our backyard. We were left with just one bird, a gold laced wyandotte. She had never shown any signs of broodiness, and was extremely wary of people...
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    How long can a hen safely be broody?

    I've got a buff orpington hen that's about 2 years old. She's gone broody before, and I broke her because I didn't need more chicks. However, this time, I am actually in need of some chicks due to gradual losses in the flock. But...I didn't decide I needed chicks until she had already been...
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    Hens and pullets together, soft shelled eggs

    Hi there - I've got 7 adult hens that are about a year old. They started laying in November and have been going strong. On Easter we got 3 chicks, and they started integrating with the big girls about 2 weeks later. A few weeks after that they were fully commingling, and once they were sharing a...
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    Pesky visiting rooster

    A few weeks ago a mystery rooster showed up outside our coop. He's gorgeous but he's getting my 7 hens all worked up pacing around the outside of their run. He comes generally on weekends but has shown up a few weekdays as well. The trouble is that my daughter (3 y/o) is scared to death of...
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    Induced broodiness

    Is it possible that just the appearance of chicks could cause a hen to go broody? Saturday afternoon I introduced my (then) 16 day old chicks to the big girls, in a run-within-the-run. Within probably an hour, one of the hens hunkered down outside the little run, right next to the chicks'...
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    Beak injury on hen

    Hi. One of my 10 month old hens has a beak injury. The top surface is flaky and scabby looking, and she has a bit of an under bite where she had never had one before. It almost looks like the tip and surface of the front of her beak completely broke off. As for causes, the other day I put some...
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    Thinking about getting some ducks

    Hi, I've been keeping chickens for almost a year. We've got 7 that I picked up at a couple days old last June. We love them - they're laying and doing great but the other day while at Tractor Supply they had ducklings (we stopped to look at chicks but the selection was horrid), and they're CUTE...
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    Changing egg shape

    Hi there, I've been getting eggs from my 3 EE girls for about a month now. Two of them lay an egg early each morning like clockwork, 6 days a week, but one of them has been a little slower to get into the rhythm. Lately I've noticed she's dropping eggs that vary in shape widely from one lay to...
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    Purple comb on rooster

    Hi - my 19 week old rooster Moe has developed some purplish tinting on the back half of his comb. We've been experiencing true autumn weather lately, especially overnight, recently dipping down into the 40's. Within the last 2 weeks he's started crowing and started trying to mount the pullets...
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    Distressed/worried rooster?

    So I finally found a home for my extra three roosters on Saturday night, and I'm down to 1 rooster to my 4 original pullets, plus 3 pullets still in quarantine. Yesterday morning he seemed to be looking for them, and then seemed to forget about it for the day. I let them out of the run to free...
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    Workshop chickens

    The rooster to hen ratio at the Kansas Guy homestead is currently stuck at 1:1, and my three EE girls apparently decided they were tired of the guys and weren't going back to the coop for bedtime. When I went to do my head count before locking up, they were missing. I saw the workshop door open...
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    Stress during laying

    Hi - Sunday of this week I found a wonderful surprise on TOP of the nest box from one of the three girls in my workshop quarantine area - her very first egg. She's a 28 week old Buff Orpington. She's been a trooper and so far also gave me an egg Monday, and another one later in the day yesterday...
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    Quarantine coop in workshop question

    Hi, I'm picking up three 25 week old pullets today from a nearby farm. I've got a quarantine coop set up in my workshop. The coop is 3' wide x 6.5' long x 3' tall. It's just a wood frame wrapped in hardware cloth, with a chicken wire top that opens up. It sits on the floor in my 25x25 non...
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    How much space for quarantine?

    Hi - I'm planning (hoping?) to purchase 3 buff orpington pullets to add to my flock. The birds are coming from a nearby high school student who bred them for an FFA project. The seller says they were vaccinated and raised on medicated feed, which I thought was redundant, but whatever. My...
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    Nest box sizes

    Hi - I know, another nest box size question. I'm retrofitting an existing shed to be a chicken coop. Right now we have 4, 13 week old pullets. Based on the layout of my space (I'm using half of an 8x12 shed, so the birds get 8x6), my layout is sort of limited. I'm making exterior accessible...
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    Dead chick

    Hi, I'm new to the chicken thing. I got ten chicks 2 weeks ago tomorrow. At the time they were about a week old. Last night I noticed that one of my chicks was just sort of crouched down in the corner of the brooder, looked a bit fluffy, but in my ignorance, I thought nothing of it. Figured she...
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    Run size to save lawn

    Hi, I've got 10 chicks that I'm building a run for. How many square feet of run do you think I need to have in order to keep them from turning the ground into a dusty field? Or is that just a dream unless I'm free ranging?
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    Chicks are here!

    So I went and picked up my 10 chicks this morning. 5 Easter Eggers and 5 BO's. They're 7 - 10 days old (apparently hatched over several days). They're set up in a wardrobe moving box laid on its side. I have another to join to it once they're bigger. They were obviously quite distraught...
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    Shed conversion and run construction questions

    We moved in to a new home in the country a few months ago and chicks are in the near future (2 days away). With the property came an 8x12 garden shed (pictured). It obviously needs some TLC in the door and floor department but I have a couple other questions. I've read that coops should be up...
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