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    OMG Eye Injury!! Help!!! UPDATE!!!!!!

    Um....my Rooster, Roobert looked fine this morning. Now, this. I don't know what happened or what to do. Suggestions? 1) What type of bird , age and weight? Buff Orp, 1 year, 9 lbs. 2) What is the behavior, exactly: No odd behavior. Crowing, eating, acting fine. Eye looks awful. 3) How...
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    To wash or not to wash.......

    I have some conflicting egg advice. I was always told not to wash fresh eggs - just brush them off and put them in the fridge. This was so as not to remove the protective bloom that naturally coats them and keeps out bacteria. BUT - recently I have heard that you should "Always scrub" your...
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    9 Months Old and FINALLY eggs!

    I too believed my chickens were destined to be non - layers. My chickens hatched in early March and we estimated laying to begin on early fall. WRONG! Too many turned out to be roosters and then I figured with too many roos around my girls would never lay. But Mabel, one of my RIR's laid her...
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    Male vs Female

    I haven't heard the 2 syllable sound at all from my two guineas so I have assumed they were both male. They look pretty similar in head, but one has more coloring than the other. They're about 8 months old. BUT, I have noticed my chicken Roosters "mating" with one of the guineas quite a bit...
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    When can you sex Barred Rocks?

    I bought 4 Barred Rock pullets in October - they were 17 weeks old at the time, and they all certainly looked like girls to me. Yesterday one started crowing. By my estimate they are 23 weeks old. Ummm..........is he a late bloomer or what????? I bought the 17 weekers because I figured we'd...
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    Hen gone; lots of feathers

    We appear to have lost our first bird. This one was fond of escaping the pen during the day and when I went out this morning to check on the flock I found a trail of feathers leading away from the perimeter of the electric pen and then a huge scattering of feathers in the backyard, where the...
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    7 Month old Pullets won't mate with roo

    Okay...so here's my question - I have a mixed breed flock, all about 7 months old. No one has laid an egg yet. I have 2 roosters - a GLW who is the Alpha, and a Blue Cochin who gets along swimmingly with the GLW. I have seen them both try to mate the girls. They each have a particular girl...
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    7 Months and No Eggs

    Ok, I know chickens will lay when they are good and ready.....but now I am feeling like I am doing something wrong. I have a flock of 7 month old hens - a Wynadotte, 2 Orpingtons, 1 Jersey Giant, an Ameraucana, and a Brahma and not a one of them is laying. I wasn't too worried until my...
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    Cochin Quandary

    My blue Cochin "pullet" Clementine is 24 weeks old and has never showed signs of being anything other than a girl. Until now. Suddenly it seems she's all red around the eyes and her comb and wattles seem larger and redder, too. I know some Cochin hens have fairly large combs and wattles...
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