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    Feathers Missing - What could be the cause?

    Hello everyone :D Recently (within the last 2 weeks) we have noticed all our chickens loosing feathers. Some are worse than others, but we are unsure of the cause. Molting? Mites? Other? Here are some pictures: We have 2 barred rocks, 2 buff orpingtons and 1 Rhode Island red. To...
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    Rats.

    Hello Ever since late summer, we've developed rats all around our garden. Not inside our house (as we know of yet). They're very small, bigger than a mouse but not as big as the average rat. We have no clue what kind they are, etc. We got them when we moved the chickens into the coop. They...
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    Missing feathers on rear?

    Hello About a week ago I noticed feathers missing from one of our chicken's rear sides. I meant to post this a while ago but was extremely busy and never got to it. The feathers are starting to grow back a little bit, especially around the sides. Other chickens have shown no or little...
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    Photographing Chickens

    Hello :D I'm learning how to use my new camera (info below), and would like some possible info from other experienced photographers of chickens. Side-note: I have a Nikon D7000 with a 180-300mm lens. For the reasons of how chickens move around so quickly, and all the other variables...
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    First Eggs!

    (Questions below) Hello! Here's about how we got our first eggs about 20 minutes ago :D I went outside to check on the ole coop. Since everyone was blocking the entrance into the run, I decided to look inside the coop through the egg boxes. I was surprised to pop it open and find 2 eggs! I...
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    Preparing the coop, chickens, and everything else for Winter. Tips?

    Hello everyone :D I know there's already a lot of other post about winter and other things, but I kind of want to consider not only the chickens themselves, but how to keep the entire living condition and other things safe. I live in Connecticut, and as any tri-stater knows, temperature...
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    Eggs soon, or?

    Hello We have 6 chickens (5 hens) and are HOPEFULLY expecting eggs soon. We got them at 2-3 weeks old on Mothers Day, so they're about 22-24 weeks old. BRs,BOs, and RIRs. Pictures tagged below. Hopefully this will show how red their faces are and what your judgement would be. I tagged our...
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    Giving shell to chickens

    Hello We recently decided to start (2 weeks ago) feeding our chickens crushed up egg shells as a source of calcium, they're around 20 weeks old and are expected to lay soon. Our questions as listed: -Should we continue doing this? Does it have an effect? They seem to be eating it. -Should we...
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    Feather Eating - Problem or no problem?

    Hello My chickens eat feathers. Not by plucking them off, but if there's a feather laying on the ground that's not too dirty they'll eat it. Why? They've been doing this since the age of 10 weeks and I've only seen it it a few times. I noticed it again today which lead me to asking about it...
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    Getting chickens to gain trust? Help

    Hello We have 6 chickens that we got at the age of 2 weeks. All of them have major trust issues. When we need to pick them up, it's a challenge of chasing them around in order to get ahold of them. When we try to extend a hand to feed or pet them, they automatically back away or run away...
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    When can we expect Mr. and Mrs. to start... making babies?

    Hello We have one unwanted rooster that we got at the age of 2 weeks. We were wondering, when will they start having babies? We want to get rid of it as far from that date as possible. We've already noticed him going around and pecking the others in the butt They're all around 18 weeks old...
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    When to open egg boxes? 18 weeks old and no eggs YET.

    Hello. Not sure if this is the right place to put this or not, but anyways. Our chickens are 18 weeks old, and they haven't started laying. When should we open the egg boxes? If we open them now will they go in their and make a mess of it and not know their purpose in it? Do we wait until...
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    Woodchuck eating tomatoes?

    Hello Here's a course of what happened in a week in our garden. Something was eating all the tomatoes in our garden. We weren't sure what it was, so we set up some reusable rat traps in the tomato plant bed and hoped for whatever was eating them to get caught in the trap. We were seeing...
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    United since 1 week old

    Hello, here's one of our stories about 2 of our chickens. At 2 weeks old, one of our buffs had a very weird case of straddled legs and a mix of other leg complications. We decided to quarantine this chick due to the fact it was in obvious pain and was getting stepped on by the others. She...
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    Taking out a Rooster and Replacing with a hen?

    Hello We are thinking about removing 1 of our 6 chickens; a rooster. We never wanted this rooster nor desired the use it would bring to us, and we were wondering if there is much of a difference between 5 chickens and possibly 6 or 7 (in terms of eggs). The big question: If we do decide to go...
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    Normal or Abnormal? Poop?

    Poop. Title is pretty self explanatory. Just weird white stuff on it. More than usual. That's it.
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    Pumpkin leaf eater!

    Hello! Something has been eating the leaves off our pumpkins. This leaf eater is not an insect nor a fungus/virus of any sorts, but definitely an animal. Anyone know what it could be? Never had this happen. They're protected by 4 walls.
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    Growing Pumpkins?

    Hello I've always wanted to grow pumpkins. 2 years ago, we bought some pumpkins from a well known farm in Connecticut. We decided to compost the rotted pumpkins after halloween, not thinking much would happen. To our surprise, pumpkins actually started growing! The vines traveled all over the...
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    Run Covering?

    Hello I believe I may have fallen in the trap of not researching enough about the actual construction of the coop/run itself. We have roofed over the coop (obviously), but skipped the run and just covered the top in hardware cloth. Not that this is a bad thing, it allows for more light to come...
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    Poop Problem?

    Hello Not sure which chicken of 6 is pooping this way, but their poop has a watery substance too it. I have been seeing their poop like this for the 3rd day in a row, and am not sure it's normal. We recently moved them to the coop 2 weeks ago and just this past week let them into the run...
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