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    Help Mojo

    Ok, I don't know what happened to my first post so I'm trying again but more to the point: Mojo is a year and a half or so, giant cochin, I adopted him after 2 other roos attacked him. he spent almost 3 months recovering in the house . It was determined that his eye had been plucked out. vet...
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    Baffeling Whirling Hen

    Chicken Little's life started out kind of rough. Not only was it a very late in the season hatch but I had a salmon faverole hen who would go into the brood box, kill and eat the chicks as they hatched.:hmm Understandably she was pretty much velcroed to the brood mama's belly for a long time...
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    Non Brooding hen has killed 3 hatched chicks.

    Hi! I have 2 nesting hens, one is in the hen house, the other took up nesting in an old rabbit hutch. Last week when the eggs in the hen house started hatching (one per day) they would go completely missing by the next day. I thought for sure it was a bull snake or even a ground squirle (we...
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    I have another set of hens "tag team brooding" NOTHING

    Hi all! Ok this is a first for me, its been a few months since the first pair of "tag team brooders" hatched 3 chicks. A few weeks ago a 2 other hens decided that they wanted to give it a try. They decided to brood at the same time in the same box. Not that unusual in my flock, I guess, it's...
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    Brooded 2 week old chick with a new limp.

    Hi all! I had two hens hatch three chicks two weeks ago. The tag teamed the brooding process and seem to continue that process with raising them. They're good moms! the chicks have done really well, although the hens haven't taken them out of the hen house yet. In prior hatches of the past I...
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    Polish hen has plucked my Polish roo down to the down OVERNIGHT. HELP!

    Yesterday morning I was agast to find that my polish roo, Brian had been denuded. Crest, neck, tail feathers, back; almost all of him plucked right down to the down! I knew nothing had attcked him and it wasn't the other roo in the flock (my flock is mixed) so after watching for 12 hours or so...
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    What do you suppose happened to Marge's tail?

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    I'm in love.

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    Is she really a Dom?

    I got my first Dominique beginning of May, her wings are feathering out all black. shouldn't she be feathering out barred? I'm starting to suspect that she is perhaps a Jersey Giant?
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    The shipment is in!

    Well the weather wasn't very nice this morning but my second shipment of chicks came in and every one is health, robust and loud. This orde contains my Golden laced polish, my Buff laced polish pullets. both are beautiful. To my supprise the mystery chick is a handsome White crested black...
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    Any guesses as to what she is?

    Hi there, this is Lovey, She arrived yesterday from MPC/Meyer Hatchery, Hatch day was 5/2. She is the only chick that I didn't specify the breed. I needed to round out my minium so I chose 1 chick from the rare breed assortment (know that was sill, now I'm just going to go crazy) She is the...
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    Old hens and "water bottom"

    Hi all, I have taken in two old girls (4&5 yrs.) from a friend 3 days ago. The flock they came from is local and healthy, they just dont produce much any more. They seem to be situating nicely, eating and drinking nicely, good color and behavior and all but I've noticed 2 things: they have...
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    Old hens with "water bottom"

    I've taken in two 4-5yr. old girls, a RIR & a Buckeye. They came from a good,clean, local home. I wanted to "warm the nest" before my chicks arrive in May. It's been 6 months since a predator killed my flock. The new/old girls are settling in fine, this is only their second night but they both...
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    Hi There!

    I'm new to BYC, its nice to find the New Mexico page! I'm here in the Jemez My flock was eaten by a mountain lion back in October :( Now that the damaged hen house has been fortified and repaired I'm focused on deciding what breeds will be on my dream team this spring. I'd love to add some...
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    New to buying fertile eggs

    Hello there! I'm new to both BYC and buying fertile eggs. I have an uber broody hen who hasn't gotten off the nest since the end of May, no matter what I tried to break her of her "biological imperitave". I haven't had a roo for over a year so I broke down and bought an assortment of fertile...
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