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    Multiple Impacted Crops? Help with treatment/cause

    Hi all. One of my Orpington hens, Biscuit, seems to be exhibiting symptoms of what looks to me like an impacted crop. She is rotating her neck in a circular motion, and her crop is absolutely massive and very firm. She and the other flock members do not regularly eat grass (they have a big run...
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    Andalusian & Silver Phoenix Chicks

    Hi all! I let my broody hatch a few chicks, and they are now a little over one month old. One is a Blue Andalusian, the other is Silver Phoenix. I am hoping for two hens... Opinions on gender?
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    Mystery Chick!! Help ID

    I need some help IDing this little chick! Yesterday, 2/4 eggs hatched under my broody hen. I originally got the eggs from an exhibitor at a local fairground. He had marked the shells with these breeds: -Silver Spangled Hamburg -Silver Leghorn -Lakenvelder -Silver Phoenix Out of the two that...
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    Fair Eggs--Will they hatch?

    Hi all! Last night I went to a local fair...and I ended up coming home with 6 free eggs. At the poultry exhibition, there were many exhibitors selling fair-hatched chicks, young hens, etc. There was also a table covered in fertilized eggs that had been exhibited over the week. One of my Buff...
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    Chicken Eating Feathers — Plucking Chickens Bare

    Pumpkin, my Buff Orpington, has started picking out and eating the feathers of my two Dark Brahmas. I only noticed this behavior actively about a week ago—she had always shown some interest in pecking at their foot feathers, but I had never seen her actually pulling out feathers and eating them...
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    Chicken trauma?

    Over the summer, we had an attack in our coop by a couple of raccoons. They killed two Barred Rocks first in the early spring, and while I was on vacation for two weeks with someone caring for my hens, the raccoons killed three White Leghorns, my EE hen and her best friend the barnyard mix, and...
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    Hello from Virginia!

    Hello all! I have been the caretaker of several lovely hens and a roo for a little over two years now. We have raised two batches of chickens and a total of 15 in all. Currently, we have five hens and the rooster after some raccoon attacks a few weeks ago. I have raised Easter Eggers, Barred...
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