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    Wyandotte with swollen face--*please* help

    My blue-laced red, Mora, is a pullet approaching her first birthday (end of November). She has always been quite hefty since reaching laying age, but since having this problem, I fear she has been losing weight as she seems lighter when I pick her up. Around three days ago, I noticed one side...
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    Help with Mallard Genders

    In mid April we got two Mallard ducklings from a local feed store. We think they're five weeks old now, maybe six. I believe we have one male and one female, but the rest of my family thinks we have two males. My reasoning: one of them has grown bigger rapidly even though they started at the...
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    What Gender is this Black Australorp? (3 Months Old)

    Three months ago, my boyfriend gave me three baby chicks for our five-year anniversary. I was overjoyed, of course!! One Easter Egger, one Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, and one Black Australorp. They became Mrs. Hudson, Mora, and Kylo Hen, respectively. We integrated them with the flock of five we...
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    SLW Sleeps with Her Head Under Another Pullet's Body? (6 months)

    Recently we took out the old roosts we had in the coop and replaced them with multi-leveled, much wider ones, which made our girls pretty happy. Since this change I've noticed that my SLW Bertie has, funny enough, been sleeping with her entire head under my Salmon Faverolle's body. They have...
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    Irregular Layer? (Red Sex-Link, 24 Weeks)

    My Red Sex-Link, Ronnie, started to lay at around the same time my Speckled Sussex did--at 19 weeks. While Pippa has continued to lay on an almost daily basis, Ronnie laid two eggs, and then stopped. She hasn't laid an egg since the incident I'm about to talk about below. Nothing seems to be...
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    Feather Pullers--Please Help

    I have recently moved three nine-week-old chicks in with five five-month-old pullets, and things are not going well. First of all, there is Pippa, who has been the terrorizer from the start. She likes to pull and eat feathers and has put marks on the babies. The only thing I can think of to...
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    Recommended Feed for Two Different Ages of Chickens?

    I'm soon going to integrate my three 7 week old chicks with five 19 week old pullets. What feed do you recommend I put them all on? I've been looking at All Flock, but I can't decide on a brand. As a sidenote, is it okay to switch the pullets off of their layer feed right now? I just put them...
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    I Have a Chick Terrorizer (19 Weeks)

    I've talked about this before, but she's really out of hand at this point. My Speckled Sussex, Pippa, is doing her best to take a chunk out of my chicks. The chicks are 7 weeks old now, and were introduced to the coop at 3 weeks. They live in a pen that sits adjacent to the bigger pen we have...
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    Low Energy After First Egg Normal? (18 Weeks)

    Today, my Speckled Sussex pullet, Pippa, has laid her first egg! It was so small (about the size of a golf ball), soft-shelled, and broken open a little by the time I got out to the coop to discover it, but I was so amazingly proud. She's been shrieking nonstop for so long that I thought she'd...
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    Pullet Throat Laceration--She panicked and her talons caught the skin of her neck, please help!

    Iroquois is a Buckeye, 18 weeks. Unsure of weight, but she's a big girl. Heavier than some of her brood mates. She was very frightened at first by what happened and the dangling skin confuses her; she can see it, tries to nip it, feels pain, rinse and repeat. As far as exhibiting signs of...
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    Indifferent Pullets; Puberty or Hawk Trauma? (17 Weeks)

    I have five pullets that have been acting strangely for a while now. As the title says, they're rather indifferent to me. When they were younger, and there were six of them, I could go into their coop, sit down on a bucket, and have at least half of them perched on my legs. They would fall...
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    When to Integrate with Pullets? (4 Week Old Chicks)

    I have three chicks that are four weeks old, almost five weeks. (An Australorp, an Easter Egger, and a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte.) They live in the coop now, but in their own little pen separate from my 16 week old pullets. When will it be safe to integrate the chicks? I feel like I read...
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    Bully Pullet Bothering Chicks

    My Speckled Sussex pullet is a bully, and none of us saw it coming. She's 16 weeks along with the rest of her brooder mates, and next to last in the pecking order. But her brooder mates, of course, are not the victims of her violence. Her victims are the 4 week old chicks that we have recently...
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    Watery Poop/Diarrhea Abound; How to Treat?? (9 Week Old Pullets)

    Hey all, Lately, my six pullets have all seem to had a problem with very watery poop and or diarrhea. I mention both because I have seen puddles of brown poop with very little mass--very smelly--AND straight liquid poop that seems to come with an excess of water and (so sorry if this is too...
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    Our Girl is Limping. :( (7 Weeks)

    Today I came home to find that Pippa, our beloved Speckled Sussex, is limping and sad. I'm not home on the weekends and just got here, but the people I live with say that she wasn't limping like this last night. We've examined her leg and there are no scratches or marks to indicate injury but...
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    Loose Feathers in the Coop (7 Weeks)

    Over the past few weeks, I've noticed a loose feather here and there upon my girls. Is this normal for pullets of their age? Tonight, as I went out to refill the water, I also found several new feathers that were not there when I went out just a few hours ago. Three of the feathers I...
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    Help me sex a Buckeye and a SLW please? (6 Weeks)

    For a while now, I've had deep-rooted fears that two of the girls in my flock might not be girls at all, and I was hoping that I could get some more opinions on the matter from people with superior chicken knowledge. I love these chickens dearly, and if they ended being cockerels, I couldn't...
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    Sits While She Eats (6 Weeks)

    This is Becky. (picture from last week) The Salmon Faverolle of the flock. She's fluffy, sassy, dramatic, but loves to sit on your knee or your shoulder and fall asleep. She's all peep and no peck. I love her. The feeder we have for our girls is set on a flat garden stone so that it sits...
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    Crybaby Chick. (6 Weeks)

    I have a flock of six girls, all different breeds; Buff Brahma, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Golden Comet, Speckled Sussex, Salmon Faverolle, and Buckeye. However, I have been having some worries about my little Buckeye. She's always been smaller than her five sisters, though they were all born on...
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    Runty Buckeye?

    Hello, New user and chicken raiser here. I have six chickens, all different breeds (Buff Brahma, Speckled Sussex, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Salmon Faverolle, Golden Comet, and this Buckeye), and they've just turned five weeks old. Our Buckeye has always been pretty small and slow to get her...
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