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    Gender 9 week old Anconas

    I have three sexed Ancona chicks that are nine weeks old and they don’t look like any of the other chicks I’ve ever had so I’m just curious, are they cockerels or pullets? They are looking very suspicious with all the redness but I have heard that they get their comb and wattles early similar...
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    Mama’s in love already ☺️

    I had a broody hen that had been sitting on unfertilized eggs for a couple of weeks. I would remove the eggs daily but she would always steal somebody else’s L O L. I finally bit the bullet and went to Tractor Supply and got her some babies. I was skeptical at first when I first put them...
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    Fertilized eggs?

    We recently took in a five month old Cochin cockerel. He is doing very well with my girls and although I haven’t seen him mating with them, I suspect that he is because it looks like we are starting to get fertile eggs. He is such a sweet boy and has already taken charge of his flock. My...
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    Fire ants in the nesting boxes

    I went out to clean my coop today and noticed that I have fire ants in my nesting boxes is there anything I can put it in there that will not harm my chickens?
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    Gender/Age/Breed on duckling (video attached)

    I’ve had chickens for many years and I recently adopted this duckling. A friend of mine had bought six ducklings and two of them died immediately. They put the remaining ducks into the pen with the adult ducks and all but this one were killed by the adult male. Anyway, this duckling was living...
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    Gender reveal part 2

    It’s been about three weeks since I put pictures of my Easter Egger/Rhode Island Red mix babies on here but I was told to wait a bit and they will be eight weeks old tomorrow. I am thinking the first and the second are definitely cockerels. The other four seem to be females and I was just...
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    Cockerel question

    My two broody hens hatched out seven chicks almost 7 weeks ago. It has been one of the best and most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had. In the mix, we ended up with four suspected females and three males. In the past I’ve always had hens only and never had a desire to have a rooster. We did...
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    My hens are great mothers…Almost too good

    Two of our hens, hatched out baby chicks a little over six weeks ago. The chicks are all fully feathered and seem to be doing great but my two mothers are still hovering around them and beating up my other two, adult hens anytime they come close, still. How long is this going to go on? It shows...
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    Finally got phase 2 done! 😀

    I have to admit it’s been a work in progress. Our original coop was built 4 1/2 years ago but after hatching some babies and I want to keep a couple of them I decided I needed more room so I added an expansion area made out of welded wire. I added PVC pipe and aviary netting to prevent overhead...
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    Gender reveal

    Hi all! We hatched these babies out about five weeks ago and they are little Easter Egger/Rhode island red mixes. I have my ideas about who is a pullet and who is a cockerel but I wanted to see what you thought. I am thinking number two, three and four are definite cockerels.
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    Moody mama hen

    about 2 1/2 weeks ago our two broody hens hatched out seven chicks in between them. We had moved them to a smaller pen within our larger one so the little ones wouldn’t fall down our ramp. We also have two other hens that have been with the two broodys since birth. With our monsoon that we’ve...
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    Anyone know what breed?

    We just hatched these babies about 11 days ago and the eggs were given to me by one of my friends. She really didn’t know what type but she suspects Easter Egger mixes? They are being raised by my Buff Orpingtons. The eggs were a very light mint green color. I was just curious what they kind of...
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    ReIntroducing chicks and Moms back into the flock

    One week ago today, two of my Buff Orpington‘s hatched out seven chicks between the two of them. I was going to leave the moms in the big coop but because my ramp is so high off the ground, I ended up moving them into a small cage that is within my larger one. I had intended on each mom having...
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    Sick chicken

    I have a 3 1/2 year old buff orpington female that looked "off" this AM. Her name is Biscuit. I am accused of spending too much time with my chickens BUT normally if something isn't right, I notice fairly quickly. Anyway, I let them out in their tractor this AM and noticed that she was...
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    Lost one of my babies :-(

    A couple of weeks ago, one of my hens was acting sluggish but still eating and drinking normally. I started noticing green shavings in the coop in the mornings when we got up. She also had poop caked onto her bum. I took her in, gave her bath, and dried her off. She seemed to be getting...
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    Vent Gleet

    I have tried to look for solutions for vent gleet because I am sure that one of my hens has it. I have washed her bottom off in warm water but the stuff keeps coming back. I have looked online on ways to treat and I get mixed reviews from using monistat cream to putting apple cider vinegar in...
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    Hey y'all

    My family just started raising chickens about 4 months ago. It's me, my husband, two kids, 2 dogs, a cat and 6 sweet chickens. We started with buff Orpingtons since I read up on them and saw they were very family friendly. All 6 have names: popcorn, biscuit, fluffy, nugget, peep and...
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