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    Egg bound hen

    I think one of our hens is egg bound. She has not laid an egg in days. For the last three days her legs have been spread wide and she slowly walks like a penguin. I checked her vent and it was a little dirty with a pale yellow discharge. Today I soaked her rear end in warm water for 10 minutes...
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    Returning

    My wife and I have been raising chickens for about six years now. We started when we were living in the suburbs in the outskirts of Raleigh NC. Four years ago we baught a small farm in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia and have since retired. We started with a bakers dozed of chicks and now...
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    One of our hens hatched thesonths ago. The father is a Rhode Island red and we believe the hen a gold laced Wyandotte. One of the chickens has dveloped some nice tail feathers like that of a rooster. The other chicken is much stockier but has no tail feathers yet. I'm guessing that we have two...
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    Aggressive rooster

    We have two roosters and twenty-two hens. Each rooster has their preferred hens and visa-versa. The rooster in question is a Rhode Island Red named Redman. He is very rough when mating his hens and has nearly removed all of the feathers from their saddles. We had tried chicken saddles for the...
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    broody hen raising adopted chicks

    One of our Araucana hens , "Smoke" had gone broody several weeks ago and was sitting on 8 eggs, that we gradually switched with ceramic eggs. We were looking to get six chicks in the spring and decided to take advantage of Smoke broodiness. After a doing a lot of research we decided to wait...
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    Chickens killed, neck eaten

    We lost two of our hens this evening to a predator, that I'm guessing is a weasel of some kind. I had been working in the fenced back yard where the chickens were all day. I left less than two hours before sun set. Upon my return home maybe a half an hour after sunset, I discovered that I was...
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    Returning member

    I joined Backyard Chickens more than a year ago. My wife and I bought 12 chickens two years ago when we lived in a community near Raleigh, NC. We purchased a chicken coop and made a screened run in our backyard, with assistance from Backyard Chickens. I remember posting that I was using chicken...
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    open wound on my chicken's back

    Tonight I found a hole in my chicken's back that looks like it goes through the skin all the way to the ribs. It's just under where her wing rests on her back. It's easily an inch long and gapes open. There is no drainage, and so I'm sure that it's not an abscess. She seems to be acting and...
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    New member

    I am new to chickens. I just got my baker's dozen of new babies last week. I have been planning this for months and have been reading all I can on the subject of raising chickens. My wife and I are constructing our 12' x 24' run with 4x4 posts every 8' and 2"x4" welded wire. I attached 1"...
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