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    Bantam Hen Trouble Walking - Help!

    Hello! I'll give some quick background in case it's helpful: A few weeks ago we got a new flock of 4 - 12 week old chicks: 2 bantams and 2 full sized birds. One of the bantams turned out to be a roo, so this weekend by husband found him a new home and brought home two full grown (year old I...
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    Dane County Wisconsin - Millie Fleurs & Porcelain D'uccle

    We are in Madison WI but willing to deliver these two anywhere within about two hours of home. One is Millie Fleurs and the other is Porcelain D'uccle. Both are bantams and are currently being fed organic grower feed. They are about 10-12 weeks old and have been taken very good care of. They...
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    New-to-me Chickens Not Laying

    Hi Everyone! about a month ago we purchased four hens, all about a year old (born in early spring 2012). There are 2 Light Sussex, 1 Blue Marans, and one Gold Star (Sussex/Rhode Island Red Cross). They all laid just fine for a few days, then the Marans and Gold Star just stopped completely. The...
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    Broody Question Take Two

    I tried asking this question here a few days ago, and no one seemed to understand what I was getting at, so here goes again.... I have a broody hen, no roosters. I know that there are ways to break a broody, but I would prefer to let her do her thing and quit when she's ready. Has anyone ever...
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    Broody Question

    I have a 1 1/2 year old hen who is now broody for the second time. She started this spring, and then we moved at the end of May, and moving to a new coop snapped her out of it. She's at it again, and has been for a little more than a week. I've been taking her off the nest twice a day to make...
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    The New Garage Coop is Done! Lots of Pictures!!

    Still lots of little details to finish, but the coop is 95% done! https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=36124-garage-city-coop
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    Broody or Eggbound?

    I have a hen that I think has just gone broody, but I'd like to make sure that she's not eggbound since this is my first experience with such things. I noticed her sitting on the nest two evenings ago at bedtime. I'm not sure if she spent the night on the nest, but she was up and out in the run...
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    The Perfect Composting System?

    Happy Mother's Day Everyone! My 5 hens and I are getting ready to move to a new house, and I'd like to get a really good composting system for their poop set up right away. I'd love to know if anybody has some good advise for what that might be. I use the deep litter method, I scrape the board...
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    Can my chickens eat bluegill?

    My boyfriend caught a bunch of bluegill about a week ago. He cleaned them, but didn't do the best job scaling - there are few scales left on the fish and all the bones are still there. We grilled them, but we have some leftovers and I don't really want them. Is it OK to give whole fish like...
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    SOLD DO NOT BID - Wheaten Marans Pullet - Southern WI, no ship

    Beautiful Wheaten Marans pullet for sale - approximately 10 months old. She lays very large, very dark eggs that are just beautiful! Some have a unique lavender color. She started laying in the fall, and is now laying about 5 eggs a week. I live in Madison, and I need to scale back to the legal...
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    Brinsea Octagon Eco Incubator with Auto Turner

    Brinsea makes the highest quality home incubators available! The Eco incubates up to 24 chicken eggs. Built in thermometer and flashing temperature light. Easily adjust the temperature with the tamper proof knob. Fan assisted air circulation. Octagon design makes it easy to monitor the eggs...
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    Molting in February?

    I've got 6 pullets, all born last spring (March and April I think). One went through a light molt this fall. Then another one started a month or so ago - she's finishing up now. Today I noticed white pin feathers on three more. Is this normal? I thought they were supposed to molt in the fall...
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    I don't want to cull, please help!

    I have a pullet with a bad case of the bullies. She's a wheaten marans - very large. She's much bigger than my 5 other pullets - they're all roughly 10 months old. The pecking started a little more than a month ago. My other 5 girls have bare butts, some much worse than others. I've put blue...
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    Separate the bully or the bullied?

    I've got 6 pullets, about 9 months old. Recently, I noticed that all of them except one were starting to look scruffy around their tail feathers. I've observed them quite a bit and deduced that the one without any feather damage is a big bully - she's pecking all of them. There's a few with bald...
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    Pecking or Mites? Pic Heavy

    I'm having trouble determining whether my hens are victims of pecking or whether they have mites or another parasite. They were afraid of the snow and spent all their time in the coop from the beginning of December until yesterday when I finally dumped a bag of pine shavings in their shoveled...
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    Cooped up hens getting pecked badly!

    I've got six laying hens in my backyard coop. I've given them access to their run every day except for the really cold days (under 10 degrees) and I've shoveled the snow out of the run as best as I could. Despite this, they haven't gone out ever since we got our first snow (about 2 months ago...
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    Introducing my 15 week old BA pullet to the flock

    This is kind of a long story, but I'm hoping for specific advise, so here goes.... I hatched two Black Australorp chicks in late July - I started with 19 mail order eggs, 3 hatched, and 1 died a few days later. Since I wanted more laying hens, I bought 6 full sized pullets in mid August. Three...
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    Free Black Austalorp Cockrel - Southern Wisconsin

    I have a very handsome 12 week old Black Australorp cockrel that I need to give away. I hatched two chicks in July - one turned out to be a girl, and the other is starting to crow! I'm keeping the pullet for eggs, but since I live in Madison, I'm not aloud to keep the roo. He's very healthy...
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    Free Black Austalorp Cockrel - Southern Wisconsin

    All listings must be in the new auction format! Please relist.
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    Does my chicken have lice?

    I've got a buff sussex who I think may have lice. I've noticed in the last few days the feathers around her neck are turning white and look eaten. It's much worse today than yesterday. She's hard to get ahold of, so I haven't had a chance to look closely. I'll do that tomorrow when I've got...
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