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    bionic mites?! help with warfare pleeeeease!

    Not a newbie chickenista, I've been through every possible pest infestation with my flocks over the past years and thought I knew how to handle whatever got thrown my way - but this mite infestation is driving me crazy! Need your fellow expert advice please... My flock free-ranges, we are in...
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    rescued guinea hen - OMG! please help!

    Last night at 9pm our local SPCA got a call to go rescue a guinea hen that someone had dumped inside one of those metal government post boxes we put the mail in (for mailing). They'd never seen such a stupid act of cruelty - a guinea hen? in the city? really? Anyways they kept her overnight in...
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    miniscule black bugs in coop - not mites, so what are they???

    hi everyone, been dealing with horrible miniscule black bugs in the coop lately and have had NO luck in trying to find out what they are, so that they can be killed! please help! we dealt with a giant red mite infestation in our now-defunct chicken coop last summer and these things are...
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    emergency - spreading paralysis, please help!

    I've been looking online for two days for an answer to this but have found nothing - hopefully someone here can help?? My 6 month-old silkie cockerel Owen started showing signs of leg paralysis Saturday afternoon. He was fine Saturday morning, never sick a day in his life - everyone else in...
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    um... do submissive cockerels SQUAT for humans??

    I'm pretty sure that squatting is indicative of a pullet but can a young submissive cockerel exhibit this behaviour too? I have a 10 week old silkie chick that I'm 95% convinced is a male (larger comb, swept-back head feathers, big legs, bigger and heavier than its siblings, will chest bump...
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    ewwwwwww!! grossest egg evar!! (egg inside an egg!)

    one of our young barred rock hens has some eggsplainin' to do... thought this big monster was a double-yolker but - surprise! now i've seen all sorts of strange eggs the past two and half years but this one beats 'em all. an egg within an egg. the one inside is all rubbery and gross, too...
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    is this even possible??

    I have 3 silkie eggs under my hen, due to hatch on Sunday (day 21). I candled them this morning to make sure they were still viable (had only candled them at day 7, nothing since) and sure enough they are alive and kicking in there... ONE PEEPED AT ME! Unless the chick has already pierced...
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    red-brown bantam cochin (pics)

    so yesterday i found out that my little 6 month-old bantam cochin, Sugar, is a "red-brown" - all along I had thought she was a faulty birchen or something! apparently the color isn't too common? what do you think of my little girl?
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    what color is my bantam cochin pullet?

    I was told birchen but wouldn't the gold color be white? She was only 3 months old in this pic, she's much prettier now :-)
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    ever had a hen SOOOO broody that...

    ...you had to PEEL her off the eggs twice a day or else she would never poop, and even worse, that you had to force-feed because she refused to eat or drink on her own as being off her eggs for longer than 10 seconds was torture?? ah, i love my crazy silkie hen but after a week of fasting...
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    does young crowing cockerel = obnoxious crowing roo?

    Curious to hear your reports on this... If a cockerel starts crowing at a very young age (a few weeks old), does that mean he will end up being an obnoxious always-crowing rooster when older? And if a cockerel starts crowing late in life (5+ months...), does that mean he will be less inclined...
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    what is the LONGEST it took you to break a broody hen??

    I'm going crazy here, never seen anything like it. Silkie hen, 8 months old, been in the broody breaker cage for almost a month now (full wire crate with wire bottom, on legs, brightly lit, she has food and water and a radio to keep her company and that's it). The longest I ever had a hen in...
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    experts please advise - do i give her eggs to sit on or not??

    Oh dear... never been in this situation before so I'm reaching out for expert advice... Subject matter: Angelina, silkie hen almost 10 months old Situation: Angelina has been in the broody breaker cage for two weeks now and her hormones just. won't. quit. I've never seen one go for so long...
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    the most simple peanut butter cookie recipe in the world! :)

    I didn't believe these could be so good until I tried them, oh my gosh! NOM NOM NOM! In a bowl, beat 1 large egg. Add 1 cup of white sugar and, if you want, a bit of vanilla - mix well. Add 1 cup of crunchy peanut butter - mix. Add 1/2 cup of flour and a bit of cinnamon, if you like - mix...
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    i am so fed up with these dumb birds!!! *screams*

    I've been through hell the past six months with my flocks. Sickness, disease, deaths, fights, injuries, parasites, pests, rehomings, name it I've been through it and I AM SO FED UP! 10 days ago I had to move my big flock to a new coop because theirs was infested with red mites. The new coop...
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    chicken GPS - how long for a full reset?

    Last week I had to move my free-ranging flock to a new coop as their old one is condemned (red mites...). Most of the girls lived in the old coop for 1 to 2 years and hang around there most of the time when out free-ranging - how long should I leave them locked in their new coop (and outside...
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    RED MITES - had to condemn coop... questions, please help!!

    Stupid owner (me) failed to recognize the signs of red mite - we now have them crawling over us, in our house, it's a nightmare. Found the poop boards in the main coop covered in mounds of millions of the little red things this morning, I panicked and pulled out the boards, threw them in the...
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    white cochins, 3.5 weeks old - girls? bantams or LF?

    So I *think* I have 3 girls... and I *think* they are banties and not large fowl... Opinions? (I didn't bring the 4th chick home as he was an obvious roo: not very well feathered out, tiny red wattles, bigger darker comb, long legs) Photos are all of the same chick, the 3 are identical...
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    need help pls - white cochins, 3 weeks old - sex??

    These babies are for sale, the seller has 4 white cochins from McMurray just over 3 weeks old of age. I don't know if all 4 are in the below pics or if they are of the same ones, but what should I be looking for to identify girls? I'm not allowed any more boys!! Please ignore the silkies in...
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    bantam frizzled cochin - 14 weeks old - gender bender?!

    OK it appears I need your expert help for this case... I thought I had it all figured out that little Frankie was a cockerel, as his comb & wattles have always looked different from those of his sister, Frannie. But after reading other posts on frizzled cochins, apparently by this age boys...
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