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    Broody hen issues

    I'm on my 6th broody of the season. 😬 I didnt realize until 2 days ago one of the hens I hatched last year had laid her own nest under one of our brush hogs. My son found it and let me know. She had 20 eggs! All but two were brown, so most were hers but another hen also found it at some point...
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    Six week chick leg injury?

    I had a hen hatch 7 chicks about 6 weeks ago. One was significantly smaller than the rest and still is (about half the size now). The night before last I noticed it was limping. I waited to see if it resolved but it hasn't. Today I grabbed it out of the barn stall and checked it over. Looks like...
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    Looking for old hen/rooster recipes!

    Hello! We butchered 5 chickens last week- one 4 year old hen, one 2 year old rooster, and three 20 week old roosters. They've been resting in the fridge since last Wednesday afternoon. The meat is skinless and I have it divided into breasts and leg quarters. My husband will not eat soup. 😑 So...
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    Probable Coccidiosis- Advice?

    Hello! I had a sick hen (unsure of age but over a year) last Tuesday that died the following day. She had mucus-y poop and was acting lethargic. Two days later I had another hen die (also over a year but had been sick with maybe worms? And treated with ivermectin a few months ago). I had some...
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    Hen Standing Around

    I have a hen that I believe is about a year old, possibly two? (I have a mixed flock.) While everyone else free ranges she stands around pretty much all day. She is fairly thin (doesn't look it but feels like it). She sometimes tries to sleep in the nesting box but not always. She eats pellets...
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    Rooster overload central Missouri

    I have 4 roosters I need to rehome. They are almost 20 weeks and unknown breeds - some could be mixed? I got them as chicks from an elementary school that hatched them. I also have younger cockerels that will probably also need to be rehomed. They are 10 weeks.
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    What breed is my broody hen?

    Does anyone know what breed she is? She's similar to a buff color but with a gray head and white tail feathers. She's also big bodied.
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    How would you add single Cockerel to flock?

    I recently acquired a single cockerel a friend hatched out from my old rooster. Sadly he was the only chick who survived,so I'm having to integrate him by himself into my flock of 12 full grown hens. He is about 9 weeks old and fairly small - about half their size. I've had him since Sunday...
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    Help! Mystery chicken foot injury

    One of my Rhode island red hens has been limping around lately. Her right foot is swollen and two of her toes are discolored, ammost looks like some of the tissue is dead? I'm really not sure what to think of her injury, so I don't know where to start to help her. I don't see any sign of...
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    Egg bound hen help please!

    I'm fairly sure my turken Tina is egg bound. Last year she passed a soft shell egg that broke inside of her and I pulled out the remainder of the shell that was sticking out of her vent. She ended up with a prolapse which I treated and she's been fine since then. Yesterday afternoon I saw her...
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    Best floor/bedding material

    I am looking for an alternative bedding/flooring solution in my chicken house. The chickens like roosting in the rafters so they poop all over the straw on the floor. It doesn't take long before it's nasty. To be honest I don't change it often enough (2.5 and 4 month old make it difficult) and...
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    Is my chicken deformed or is this a breed characteristic?

    This chicken is almost 24 weeks old. I dont know her breed because she was a chick hatched in a school classroom and given to me, but apparently all chicks they hatch are full breeds. Her comb and wattles are pale and small. Her tail faces downward and she has feathered feet. At first I thought...
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    Hen missing feathers red belly

    I have noticed lately one of my hens is missing some feathers and her belly is red (ish). Everyone else looks fine. Any guesses? Thanks!
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    Replacing Rooster

    Hello! I'm looking for some advice on replacing my 2.5 year old, infertile rooster. He is aggressive toward one of my hens so that is also a factor in his dismissal. I have 8 older hens (anywhere from 1.5 to 5 or 6) and will be adding 3 young pullets in a month or two (as a trade for chicken...
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    Eggs with no chicks

    Recently the last few batches of chicks I've attempted to hatch (by hen) have been failures. Most of the eggs don't have any chicks at all. Could the problem be my older hens? Or is my rooster shooting blanks? Our youngest hen just turned 1. The others are at least 1.5 all the way to about 4. I...
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    Coop adjustments

    Our chicken house was already here when we bought our property. I am trying to find a way to make it easier to clean for the good of my chickens and myself. We put up a branch and some perches but the chickens roost on the cross beams, so the poop is everywhere. I'm looking for a solution that...
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    Chicken killing dog

    Our dog is a shiba inu German shepherd mix. We got chickens about a year after acquiring her and have kept her on a chain while they free range. Last year she broke her chain and killed 11 and has also (in the beginning) maimed a rooster and killed a hen while on her chain. She has never eaten...
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    LOTS of feathers

    A few days ago I went to let my chickens out and noticed a large amount of feathers in and around the chicken house. All chickens were accounted for and seemed to be doing fine. Most of the feathers looked like the more downy feathers and seemed to be from multiple chickens (I gathered this...
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    Poopy butts and roosting?

    Sorry in advance for the odd post! We recently adopted 5 older hens (maybe 4-5 years old). They don't appear to be in terrible health but were with many other chickens who had very bad leg mites. We treated them for this before adding them to our flock. Two of the hens seem to have persistently...
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    Hatching chicks

    This may end up being a long thread but here we go. A few weeks ago our dog broke her chain and killed 10 of our 20 chickens (sadly all hens, 9 of which hadn't started laying yet). Prior to this incident we were fine with our flock and had no intentions of adding on. Now that we are down to 6...
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