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    Pecking led to a skin issue

    Hello! We have a 1 year old dark Brahma who was being pecked pretty badly by her flock mates. She has a pretty large bald patch on her back and around her vent. The area near her vent is pretty red, and while applying Vaseline and peck no more today I noticed a hard white lump (see the third...
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    Feather Pecking

    Hello! We have a Brahma who is about a year old who has a ton of missing feathers on her back from pecking. It began a couple months ago, and started with some wounds, so I think originally she was being picked on by our bossy Copper Maran. It started when we had a long stretch of very cold...
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    What food should I use?

    Hello! I just added 4 new chicks to our flock. They’ve been in an old dog kennel in our run for the last week to let the other chickens get used to them, and we’re planning on letting them out today. Since they’ve been separated from the adults in the kennel, we’ve continued to give them chick...
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    Clean Up After Mites

    Hello! We just sprayed our two adult chickens with elector psp to take care of mites prior to adding some new chicks to our coop. It worked great- no live mites on the chickens or in the coop that we can see. However, one chicken (who had more mites than the other) has quite a bit of crusty...
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    Bath with Mite Treatment?

    Hello! I noticed mites on one of my adult chickens this morning. We cleaned out the coop today, sprayed the inside and chickens with permethrin spray and sprinkled permethrin dust over the new bedding. I plan on re-spraying next weekend. I think you can use the permethrin dust every couple...
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    Help With Mites/Lice

    Hello! I recently discovered two things: 1. My neighbors have an illegal pigeon coop hidden in their backyard. It’s tucked behind their shed, and probably has 20 or so pigeons in it. This is not allowed in the city we live in. 2. I discovered this pigeon coop because our chickens have ended up...
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    Molting in Snow

    Hello! One of our Australorps decided to molt late this year. She’s got a few bald patches, with a tiny bit of new feather growth, but mostly bald. Normally I don’t worry about them being outside, Even when they molt late, but we have an October snow storm coming our way that’s expected to last...
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    White Leghorn Egg Color

    Hello! Just a random question- do white leghorns ever lay brown eggs?We have a 25-ish week old leghorn, who I thought would lay white ones, but we haven’t seen any white eggs yet. Instead, I’m getting a small brown egg that is either coming from her or one of our Australorps who hasn’t laid an...
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    Prolapse/egg laying question

    Hello! We have a 20 week old Rhode Island Red that prolapsed on Saturday while she was trying to lay an egg. We’ve been keeping her indoors in a dark room most of the day and she hasn’t tried to lay an egg since Sunday. We let her out for a few supervised hours in the afternoons, but we’ve had...
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    Prolapsed Vent Help (Warning! Pictures attached!)

    Hello! My 20 week old Rhode Island Red pullet recently started laying early and has ended up with a prolapsed vent. Anyone know what the white/brown stuff is? The brown part on the right is hard and kind of looks like poop, the rest seems like the remnants of a soft shell egg. In any case, it...
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    Who’s Laying These Eggs??

    Hello! We have a flock of 6 chickens. Three are about 3 years old (a Cuckoo Maran and 2 Australorps) and the other 3 (a Buff Orpington, Rhode Island Red, and White Leghorn) are about 4 months old. One of the Australorps is currently broody, and the other Australorp has never been a great layer...
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    Hello From Colorado!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We got our first chickens about three years ago and were complete newbies then! (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Now we have a total of 6 in our flock. (3) What breeds do you have? Cuckoo Maran: Pollo Australorps...
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    Chicken is ALWAYS Broody!!!

    Hello! I’m looking for advice about one of our chickens who is constantly broody. She’s a 3 year old Australorp, and every spring/summer she gets broody all the time. She’ll get broody, we’ll “break” her, and about 3 weeks later she gets broody again, over and over! All last summer (and the year...
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    Stressed Chicken?

    Hello! We have a small flock of 4 chickens. One of our Australorps has been broody, so she's been separated from the other chickens until she works out her issues. We decided to separate her the other day when our other 3 birds would not go into the coop- they were definitely afraid of her (I...
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    Decrease in Eggs in February? Is this normal?

    Hello! We have 4 hens, all less than a year old. They have been laying pretty reliably since August. With the exception of our California White, who stopped for about 6 weeks when she was molting, there wasn't really a decrease in the fall when the days started to get shorter. However, we've...
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    Is My Chicken Broody?

    Hello! My husband and I have 4 hens, all about 10 months old. Our California White has been acting weird all week. She was lethargic on Monday, so I stayed home to treat her for being egg bound. She didn't lay an egg after treatment, but perked back up and started pooping like normal, so I...
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    My Chickens Fight When its Cold!

    Hello! We have 4 hens, 2 Australorps, a Maran, and a California White. We're new to chicken-keeping, and have had them since April. When I was researching raising chickens, I read somewhere that most breeds are fine down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit. We live in metro Denver, Colorado, and it only...
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