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    Curing frostbite in hen

    Hey there, so one of my hens got frostbite during the winter, unfortunately. This was a few months ago now. She lost two of her toes to it. I was hoping she would heal in the spring but it's summer now and she still limps quite heavily. She is very strong and, despite being tiny, is arguably top...
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    Excessive vent feather pecking - cannibalism

    Just today I happened to witness one of my hens violently rip out feathers from another one of hen's (Lily) butt. I then noticed that Lily's backside is all bloody. It was not like this yesterday. Then Gobbles has a bare butt, Al has a bit of blood but not much. They've been going through a...
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    Swollen Toes

    I'll post pictures later, but one of my ameraucana hens, Penny, recently started limping. I thought it was because she propelled herself through the snow and hit the stairs but then recently, her toes have gone a white colour and started swelling. I don't think it's bumblefoot; she doesn't have...
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    Young hens with runny poop and reduced egg production

    So, I have 11 hens. They just started laying a few weeks ago. It's the middle of fall and whoever was laying the blue eggs and the beige eggs have stopped. So I thought it was because of winter approaching. But then someone started laying green eggs and is still laying them. Is this normal...
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    Aggression or curiosity? Cockerel going after my fingers.

    So here's the thing. Damien, my twelve week old cockerel, has recently started this habit of going after my fingers and biting them. And I don't mean "oh, what's that? Peck." I mean, he spots me from across the run, walks over to a place where he can reach my fingers and bites them. If I leave...
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    11 1/2 week old isabel orpington - boy or girl?

    I've wanted an isabel ever since I first saw them, and now I have one. At first I thought boy because of how slowly it feathered in and how small it was. But at the same time, it was also a victim of shrink wrap and might have just developed slowly. It has now mostly caught up in size to my...
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    Please help, they're ripping off each other's beaks

    My parents say I'm being dramatic, but we currently have 19 chickens in what I think is too small a run and they're pecking at each other's beaks. In one it's bleeding at the end, on another, the tip is hanging off and he's bleeding, and they all have dents on their beaks. Is this because...
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    An assortment of five week old chickens needing gender and breed identification

    So, not the best title, but I have 21 birds and I am certain that a couple are boys, a couple I'm pretty sure are girls, but the rest I am not sure. We can't keep roosters. LOTS of photos coming up! There are only a couple that need breed identification, mostly because we don't know which ones...
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    Breed of one, gender of the other

    I know that you can feather sex salmon faverolles at two weeks. This little guy is currently a week and two days. I'm thinking boy (will obviously wait a while until any solid opinion.) I was super excited for a hen but it appears that there is a great deal of black... What do you think? Is it...
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    Uuummm, normal?? EDIT: All's fine.

    Day 21 and seven pips. This little guy went from no pip to this very, very shortly. Can't say how long because I wasn't watching. It's that blue one in the middle. I'll try to post clearer pictures. It's still hatching but it looks like blood around where it's hatching. Is it possible for...
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    How long can a chicken live alone?

    First off, I'm not entirely sure under which thread to put this, but hopefully this is the right one? My rooster, Louise, has been alone nearly two weeks now because my last remaining rooster, Thelma, died of a heart attack, presumably. We have eggs in the incubator due to hatch in a couple...
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    The Journey of Hatching

    Okay, so I am a relatively new chicken owner. So far, we've been having very back chicken luck. Our first batch wasn't wrapped very well, and so many broke in the mail. They were also left in the mail box. We got three out of twenty eggs. The second batch gave us nine out of twenty eggs. Then...
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    Rooster with injured leg for almost a month

    So, I already started a thread for this issue but it was partnered with another one and it's been a little bit so I am going to start over. My rooster Thelma (yes, that is his name. The other one is Louise, haha) injured his leg somehow during Christmas break which was almost a month ago. He's...
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    Brahma Roosters: Excessive Drooling and Hurt Leg

    Hi, so I don't think that this is an emergency, but I am rather curious as to what it means if a chicken is drooling a lot. Louise (who is a rooster, yes, haha) has always drooled a lot. I've caught him with long strands of spit after he's been drinking. My other rooster Thelma has hurt his...
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    Help sexing nine seven week old chicks (diff. breeds)

    Hi, so I'm new here but I've been coming to this site regularly to try to sex my chicks on my own. Now I'd like to see what people think. (WARNING: Lots of pictures :) ) I have nine seven week old chicks: #1 Olive egger (wheaten maran and crested cream legbar) We're thinking a cockerel...
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