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    Spot on comb

    Anyone have any idea what this could be on the top of my chickens comb or how I could treat it? It looks like bumble foot? Should I just spray an antibiotic ointment on it?
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    Chicken laid soft egg but still acting off. Please help

    One of my chickens, and EE who is 4 years old, was acting sick with her tail down and wings out and ended up laying a soft shelled egg. She’s done this in the past and we’ve seen a vet about it multiple times. Usually after she passes it, she’s totally fine though. This time though she’s now...
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    Chicken just drops dead??

    Hi everyone. I’m really sad to say but one of my laddies just dropped dead seemingly out of now where. She was almost 2 years old and a Brahma. She was acting completely normal today. Eating,drinking, pooping like normal. She’s been laying normal eggs but we didn’t get one from her today. Just...
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    Chicken coughing or choking??

    One of my chickens just finished laying and went to go eat some food and all of a sudden started making this loud honky sneezing coughing like sound that lasted for a couple minutes. I’m not sure if she was choking or coughing? After a few minutes she just stopped and drank some water. Otherwise...
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    Portland, OR

    Hey everyone! So I am relocating to an area around Portland, OR. Still looking for a house so I’m open to any are easily commutable to portland for work. The issue I’m running into is a have a serama rooster that I am very attached too but pretty much everyone I’m seeing doesn’t allow roosters...
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    Broken eggs

    Please help!! I have an almost 2 year old EE that’s never had egg issues before that just started laying again after taking her winter break and her 3 eggs have had no shell on them and seem to break inside of her! Right now she’s out back trying to lay and liquid is coming out. A couple days...
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    Chickens fighting all of a sudden??

    Hey everyone! I’ll try an catch you up on the issue. I raised 2 chicks that are now 6 months old and added them to my original flock of 5. Everything has been fine. One of the girls in my original flock never liked the new ones and she will bite and chase them but overall everyone was fine and...
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    Do all chickens love cuddling? Lol

    Every chicken I own decided they wanted to cuddle at once lol crazy chicken lady to the max lol
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    8 week old photo shoot! Gender guesses please :)

    I have two 8 week old chicks. A silkie and BLRW. The BLRW came as “female” but I no that’s not a 100% guarantee. My rooster is also already trying to mate with them and doing his little wing dance so I’m hoping that’s a good sign they’re both female. I know it could still be early to tell...
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    Introducing chicks to existing flock

    So I have an established flock of hens and a serama rooster along with two baby chicks almost 8 weeks old (BLRW and silkie). The babies have been in a pen outside all day with the big girls to have the together but separate time for almost 2 weeks now. These past couple days I’ve been opening...
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    Chicks crying at night

    So I have two 6 week old chicks that I still have inside the house in a large brooder. I turned the heat lamp off last night since they’re older and mostly feathered and need to get used to being without it. They didn’t seem to have an issue last night but tonight they have been crying nonstop...
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    Is comb development a tell tell sign?

    I have a 5 week old BLRW that supposedly came sexed female but her comb development is very wide and is making me nervous. Is this a tell tell sign of a rooster or is there a chance she’s still a she?
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    Egg laying issues

    So for the past month one of my chickens has been having some issues with her eggs. At first it started it off with her eggs getting calcium deposits and then one time she was acting very sick and weak and I brought he inside and tended to her and she layed the egg membrane and yolk and was...
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    Please help!! Possible egg bound ??

    Hi everyone I have my year old chicken acting very odd. She was laying dish in the grass with her tail tucked and having a hard time walking. We have been having some issues with her and calcium deposits and soft eggs lately. She did lay an egg today that was softer and broke . I put her in a...
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    Deworming question

    I have a small flock of 4 chickens and 1 Rooster all around 1 years old that free range in my yard all day. I’ve notified a couple foamy looking poops but no other concerning symptoms. Where I live we have had more rain than normal. Should the foamy poops concern me to possible worm over load...
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    Soft eggs and feed question

    Hi everyone, So lately one of my EE has been having some calcium deposit on her eggs and then yesterday laid a very soft shell egg. I talked with the vet shout it and she recommended an hour at night of full spectrum light. Does anyone use supplemental light.. I’m confused what I should be...
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    Is this bumble foot?

    I noticed a small black spot on one of my chickens feet today. No redness or swelling. The chicken has showed no signs of pain, no limping or any signs that would alert me something was going on. I thought at first maybe it was dried mud but I soaked her feet in some epsolm salt bath and it...
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    Rooster behaviors

    Anybody else’s roosters go in the nesting boxes and call the girls in and rearrange the bedding for them? Never heard of this before but it’s pretty darn cute. He did this right before my Cochin, who had never laid before, laid her first egg! Crazy how he knew/made her lay lol
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    Too cute not to share

    So I’m adding 2 new chicks to my flock of 5 ( I didn’t have enough room for more, trust me I tried to make it work but wanted them to have amble room ) and I was nervous about only brooding two chicks cause I didn’t want them to get lonely or depressed with not enough siblings so I tried the...
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    Don’t know how this happened

    Don’t know how these 2 little ones managed to make their way home with me but I guess we have a blue silkie and blue laced red Wyandotte to add to the flock! Hopefully both girls Chicken math will be the death of me lol
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