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    Hen tail down

    Our hen (Sparra) molted a month or so ago. A few days ago, she started holding her tail down. She seems mostly normal otherwise and doesn't want to be picked up (also normal for her). Seen some posts about being possibly egg bound, but I don't think she's currently in laying condition. All our...
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    Lethargic Chicken

    Our Easter Egger (Penny) was suddenly lethargic today. She was still on the roost at 12pm and I had to lift her down. Their water was empty, which I refilled, and our other four birds happily drank, but Penny kind of ignored it, even after I wet her beak. I gave her some water from an...
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    Injured Wing? (Possibly pulled muscle)

    Our easter egger (Penny) is still a pullet and normally a pretty strong flier. (We have found her on our house roof.) She also routinely flies onto my arm. But yesterday and today, I saw her trying to hop onto objects about 2 feet off the ground and missing. She also struggled to get onto the...
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    Double-checking our (probably) girls

    So, we have three (hopefully) pullets who will be 3 months old on the 6th. (Hatched April 6th) They are: - Penny, easter egger - Gabby, silver-laced wyandotte - Freckles, speckled sussex Gabby also likes to sit on my arm. I didn't get a good one of Penny tonight, as she went to bed early...
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    Pullet/Hen Introductions

    Hello! So our little chicks (Freckles, Gabby, and Penny) are six weeks old now, out-grown their tub in our living room, and we're working on moving them to the outside coop. We've been doing slow yard introductions (at a distance, at first), and then moved up to all our birds in the yard at...
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    Should we be concerned?

    Hello, So we have a 3 year old hen (Mottled Java) who is typically rather noisy. The last few days, though, we noticed her being quiet. Then, observing that she was lying down and not super interested in treats (the lying down wasn't weird, but THAT was), I picked her up to check her out. Her...
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    Mites or Lice?

    Hello, While closing up the coop tonight, I suddenly discovered a bunch of little tiny bugs crawling on my arm from the nest box. We then discovered them on the coop wall. I thought they were mites, but now I'm thinking they were chicken lice, from examining some photos online. Was unable to...
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    Missing Feathers

    Hello, Our 2 year old java hen (Goose) has been missing some feathers on her back for awhile. The problem started when our rooster (now rehomed) was mating with her, but he's been gone since November and it seems like she's lost more feathers since. It doesn't seem to bother her (she got...
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    Rooster Check!

    So, I've asked about our now 2 month old chicks before (jury's still out... I have some new pics of them, too!), but this post is primarily about our ~5 month old barnyard mix, Slush, who we thought was a she, but evidence is growing the other direction. Her saddle and neck feathers are very...
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    Figuring out our chicks!

    So, our chicks are almost 6 weeks old now. Hoping they're girls, but I don't know if that can be determined yet. Also trying to figure out their breed(s)/mix. One of them is also getting a funny little mohawk. The breeder we got them from has 4 breeds of hen and 2 breeds of rooster. The hens are...
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    How Soon for Roosting?

    Just wondering if this is normal behavior. We have two chicks, hatched and raised by a broody hen. She's done an excellent job so far. They're almost 5 weeks old. They follow her everywhere, foraging, dirt-bathing, and hanging out with our other hens. Our cat was briefly interested, but the mom...
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    Our Chicks are Two Weeks Old! Here's some flock photos...

    Just some pictures of our flock today! (Six of them now). Goose (Mottled Java) hatched the two chicks, but they're not actually related. Lady Cluck (Dominique) is the queen of the flock, our two teenagers (white is Slush, brown is Sparra) are barnyard mixes. The chicks are mixes, too (though...
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    Our broody's eggs have hatched! (And we want to make sure our coop is ready for them)

    So, our broody hen (Goose) has been setting for the 21 days, and today little chicks started poking their heads out! (Not sure if they've all hatched/will hatch... we had six, only seen two chicks so far. When's a good time to check? After she gets up, I assume?) I've set up a little stand for...
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    How to stop our hen from hopping the fence

    So... a couple months ago, after we lost a hen, we got two new pullets and an older hen to introduce to our last bird. They've gotten accustomed to each other at this point, but our first hen was a little show-offy at first, jumping up onto several spots she'd never jumped onto before and more...
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    Trying to Diagnose Symptoms

    Hello, We had a sick bird (Khaleesi) who died last winter. Now her sister (Nugget, a buckeye) is showing similar symptoms, 6 months later. I'm not sure if it's the same thing or not. The bird we lost was also a buckeye, who eventually couldn't even stand up. I think we misdiagnosed a leg...
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    Leg injury, or something worse?

    Hey everybody, One of our buckeyes has been having problems, seemingly with her right leg. She'd had a previous problem with it before Christmas that had seemed to get better (she'd occasionally limp a little, but could run and keep up with the others.) The local homestead supply store folks...
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