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    Chicken acting lazy and with no energy - what is wrong?

    I have a 2 year old Cinnamon Queen who has just been sitting around the past couple of days. She is normally at the top of the pecking order and almost always is one of the first out the door in the morning, first to greet me at the gate, last to go in the house at night, etc. But recently she...
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    Egg eater...

    I know who she is, and I've got her locked up by herself. But how do I get her to quit eating her own eggs?
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    Wing clipping...

    I have several chickens who just go in and out of the chicken yard as they please. There is not much danger from predators in the daytime at least, but I'm tired of having to catch them and they do get into the neighbor's yard quite a bit. We have a 5 foot fence but for the white leghorns and...
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    Crazy Chicken!

    I have a one year old Cuckoo Maran (named Eudora), and I think she's lost her mind. First she developed her own special 'Eudora screech' that sounded different from all the other chickens. Now, whenever the other hens get too close to her she puffs herself up (she kind of looks like a...
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    When can I mix my babies with my big girls?

    I have 23 six-week chicks and 8 full-grown hens. The 8 ladies have been living in their chicken tractor for the past year, and we have now built a big new coop for the little ones. When can I move the big chickens out of their chicken tractor and in with the little ones?
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    Chickens eating paint!

    We have a large storage shed in our yard and when I let my chickens out to range in the yard, they start pecking the paint off. They have eaten a considerable amount of paint over the past year. I don't think it's showing up in the eggs but how do I keep them from doing it?
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    About when do dark cornish start to crow? Just curious

    This year I ordered two dark cornish roosters for meat as well as my girls for eggs. I was only allowed to get the birds on the condition that they would be dispatched ASAP after they started crowing. How long am I going to have before first attempts at crows and birds big enough to go on the...
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    Matted tummies... should I do something?

    my 23 babies managed to knock their waterer over in the middle of the night... completely soaked the rice hulls they have for litter. the babies laid on the wet litter and now have dirty tummies with flecks of rice matted in. They seem happy but they sure don't LOOK too great. What, if...
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    sick chick

    I got my order of chicks in this morning and most of them are doing really great. But one is looking really bad - she's awfully small and she doesn't want to move. I've seen her drinking a couple of times but I can't get her to eat. What should I do?
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    roosters for meat?

    I'm about to place an order for my new flock of laying hens. This time I want to also get a few roosters to butcher, but my family is STRONGLY opposed to crowing at 3 am. Is there any breed of bird that doesn't start crowing too terribly long before it's big enough to eat?
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