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    Five week old chick. Male or female?

    Hi everyone, It’s been four weeks since I last posted this question, so now I’m gonna try again now that the chick is more grown. This is a chick that my broody hen hatched on July 1. Father was a white leg horn, Mother was an Amaraucauna. I’m still trying to figure out the gender...
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    Egg laying mystery

    Hello everyone, I have a mystery that I need help solving. Here’s the rundown. I have one Amaraucauna hen. She usually lays an egg once every two or three days. However, she wasn’t laying for a couple of weeks. I have not seen a blue egg in a while. Then, all the sudden, today, I saw this in...
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    Breed and gender of 1 week old chick?

    Hi everyone, I’m not sure if this is possible or not, but I have a 1 week old chick that I’m trying to get the breed and the gender of, and I need some help. The chick hatched one week ago. We got the fertilized egg from a friend, so we have no idea what the breed is. I’m also completely...
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    Broody hen hatched a chick. Need advice.

    So, to start off, this is the same chicken I’ve spoke of earlier that was constantly broody. However, shortly after my last post on that thread, I noticed that she was getting up to eat and leaving the eggs. Then she went right back to sitting on them. I decided to take a gambit, so I went to a...
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    Broody Barred Plymouth Rock.

    This has been happening for weeks, and to be honest, I’m a little bit concerned. Let me explain. One of my hens went broody. To be completely honest, I don’t know if she’s eating or drinking. She’s not leaving the nesting box. Every time I pick her up, I feel around her breast area, and...
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    Successfuly trained my Doberman mix

    Hi everyone, I figured I would post an update on my dog situation. A long while ago, I posted about how to train my Doberman mix. The situation was that he was trying to bite people who came into the fence. He actually bit one person who did. The second problem was him digging. He has been...
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    April Fools Day pranks.

    I need some advice for April fools day. First you need to know that I’m only doing nice practical jokes, nothing that will hurt anybody’s feelings. I’m very considerate about other people. However, that doesn’t eliminate my joker side. With April fools Day coming up, I decided I’m gonna rig my...
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    Calcium deposit on EE egg?

    So, I went out to check on my chickens today, and I found an egg I missed yesterday from my EE Taylor. I am attaching a picture of it. I’m pretty sure those white spots are calcium deposits. I have a simple question. How do these usually form, and how do I fix it? Is there anything I can do...
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    Solar disc on chicken?!?!

    Hi everyone, So, a very hilarious story. I went out to clean the coop today. When I was out there, I had the door to the coop open. The sun was shining in a little little bit. While I was shoveling out hay and chicken droppings, I noticed that the solar disc somehow wound up on my chickens...
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    Advice needed. Time sensitive.

    I’m very concerned about my 6 chickens. I don’t know what to do with this weather coming. It will be here in 11 hours according to the time given. Another thing to note is that my chickens are losing feathers on their necks. I believe they’re in the process of molting. I’m worried the intense...
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    Hens not laying for a month

    Hi everyone, I know I posted about this a while ago, and the response was that I had to give the chickens some time after a stray dog attack for them to start laying eggs again. Well, I’ve given them a month, and they’re still not laying. I’m wondering if it’s something about the temperature...
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    Adding new chickens, is it possible?

    Hi everyone, I have a really quick question. I don’t know if there’s an article for this on BYC, but I figured I would ask. I recently lost seven chickens to a dog attack. I’m down to six. The surviving breeds are as follows: 1 buff Orpington 2 barred Plymouth rocks 1 amber white 1 golden sex...
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    Chicken shock?

    Hi everyone, I have a basic question. A few days ago I had a raccoon attack where I lost seven hens. I have six hens left. They’re all doing fine, they’re all alive, but their behavior is somewhat concerning to me. First off, they are not going outside anymore. They are staying in the coop...
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    I need to appropriately vent

    Hey guys, I don’t know if this is appropriate for the forum, but please bear with me. I need to vent. Some of you may have seen my most recent thread, but for those who haven’t, my flock of 13 has been reduced to six chickens by a raccoon. Repairs have been done and fortification is complete...
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    Three injured chickens.

    I need some help figuring out if these chickens need to be put down or not. I had a raccoon attack last night, I lost five chickens, and three were injured. The first case is a barred Plymouth rock. As you can see, she’s got a major cut on her back. No other injuries on her as far as I can...
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    Chicken massacre last night. Five dead, two injured.

    I went out to check on my chickens today, and I saw that there was a break-in. Two of my chickens lay dead outside the coop, three lay dead inside the coop. Two of my chickens are injured and are unable to walk now. I found one chicken alive and uninjured outside the run hiding. I was able to...
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    Broody hen?

    So, I went out to check on the chickens because we had a lot of snow over the night. When I got out there, this is the first thing I saw in the nesting box. Her wings are down, and she is obviously trying to keep something warm. I thought she was laying on an egg, but it turns out she’s...
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    My dog saved my family‘s life.

    Hi everyone, As the title says, my dog saved my family‘s life, quite literally. Before I start, I’m going to say that this is the same dog I posted about earlier that was having aggression issues. First I wanted to let you all know that he is doing a lot better now. We were able to figure out...
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    Training a Doberman mix. Need some help.

    Hi everyone, First you need to know that this dog that I got recently is a rescue dog. He was neglected and abandoned. We were able to purchase him at the animal shelter. This is Jack. He’s about 8 to 10 months old approximately. 100% mutt. Obviously has some Doberman in him. He didn’t take...
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    Interesting egg today

    I went out to check on my chickens, I collected 10 eggs. This was one of them. As you can see, it has kind of a speckled look to it. I’ve never seen an egg like this. Every egg I collected has one solid color, this one appears to have two. Shades of dark and light. Here’s another normal...
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