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    Bird losing "feathery" part of head feathers?

    SO one of our birds has something weird going on with her head. It's winter in NH right now and pretty cold but everyone seems fine. Our one leghorn looks like her feather on her head are losing the "feathery part" just looks like spine remaining. It almost looks like new feathers growing in but...
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    Cockerel won't run when hen pecked.

    So we have 2 birds 1 RIR and one barred rock both a little over a year old. We got 3 new chicks this year that are now about 8 weeks old. We introduced them to the new hens about a week ago. The adult hens were pretty aggressive and pecked the chicks pretty relentlessly so we set up an area in...
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    2 Chickens left. What to do?

    Thanks to a local bobcat we went from 6 chickens down to 2. I am a little unsure how we want to proceed. We intended to free range so our run is a little undersized. Right now the run and coop are both about 4'x8' and about 8' tall. First thing i'm concerned about is will 2 chickens be enough...
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    Missing chicken.

    Hello this is our first year raising chickens. We have been free ranging for about 2 months with no issues yet. Today one of the girls is missing, they will be 14 weeks old in 2 days so i am thinking it may be the chicken is laying her first egg somewhere. Any experience on how long the first...
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    How old before we can feed treats? BOSS, Meal worms, etc.

    Chicks have made it to 5 weeks can we start spoiling them with BOSS or meal worms or fruit or anything fun? I have seen the treat posts but nothing about age.
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