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    Egg Eater Scenario

    Hello All, Well, what a sad situation I have. I just rebuilt my laying flock over the past year, and all my young pullets had just gotten into the groove of laying regularly and we were overflowing with eggs. Then, we went on vacation last week, and since arriving home I have been getting...
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    Eggless hen?

    Hello All, I have an almost 1 year old Speckled Sussex hen (hatched last May) who is stumping me about her egg laying. She is healthy, a good weight, normal energy, etc, but her laying is so sporadic it is almost non-existent. She laid her first egg around the same time as the others in the...
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    When is time to worry?

    I have a 1.5yo light Sussex hen who typically lays about 5 times weekly. I noticed yesterday that she squatted in unusual places a handful of times, and she did not lay yesterday. Otherwise she is eating, drinking, walking around "chattering" scratching around being a normal chicken. No...
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    Moulting Trauma

    My almost 2yo barred rock is having a very hard moult - every day I go out it looks like the remains from a fox fight! The poor girl has multiple naked patches - neck, back, saddle, bum - and she looks like she is half the size of her previous full feathered self! All of this I am sure is quite...
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    Rooster Soap Opera

    Out of my little flock of 7, 2 for sure MAYBE 3 are roosters. In my way of thinking, 3 roosters to 4 hens is just asking for trouble. I never intended to keep roosters anyhow, I really just wanted hens. However, my 2 roosters seem to get along totally fine at 4 months old, and the one that...
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    9 weeks and still guessing!

    Here are some updated pics of my youngest americana babies. One day I am sure they are hens, the next day positive they are roos. They are around the 9 week mark, same ages but different feather growth in their tail which has me confused. The one with the longer tail is getting more red around...
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    Today is the Day-but what about tonight?!

    For the past few months the I have been running 2 coops while I finished one and figured out how best to integrate all my chickens together into it. I put my 3 babies in the new coop first (mainly to get them out of my bathroom where I had been raising them!) and a week after that I introduced 2...
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    Will this be a problem??

    We have our baby and teenaged hens moved into the new coop, and the next stage for us is integrating the two older layers who are still camping out in the old chicken coop. Now that we are actually using the coop and not just spending every daylight hour working on It, I have discovered what I...
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    Help sexing 2 Americana's

    Here we go again!! I just got 3 chicks in the spring, 1 of them an Americana who quickly showed me that he is a roo. I just picked up two 'replacement' americana's frkm a farmer last week, and I am fearing the worst - Maybe both roo's! Both have different sized combs and different feathering...
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    Not Your TYPICAL Broody

    I have a hen that has been with me since spring. She came as a trio, but has since lost her two mates (1 to illness and 1 to predator). She has adjusted to being an only hen much better than I imagined, although I have plans in the works to build her a new flock - babies in the house and another...
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    My Quarantine Situation

    I have one single hen remaining from my previous flock and am looking to rebuild. We are unsure if we are keeping her or culling her, and are awaiting the results of an ELISA that will tell us if she is healthy or carrying - fingers crossed for the first option! I have a 1 year old Light Sussex...
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    Confusing feather growth

    Hi all. I have three chicks - a 6+ week old Ameraucana, a 4+ week old Buff orphington and a 2+ week Buff Orphington. I was initially told they were all pullets based on their day old feathers, and I had to agree when I first saw them, however I am starting to second guess their genders as they...
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    Poop board as a roost

    Hello! My husband and I are in the process of building a new and improved hen house for the chicks. I think the idea of poop boards under the roost sounds great, but I can't get past thinking that the hens will be likely to just roost on the edge of the poop board as much as they will hop onto...
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    Sanitizing Against Viruses

    Hello chicken community, this new chicken lady is once again turning to you for answers and advice. I am only a few months into owning chickens, but it has been a rough road. I so far have experienced loss to both disease and predators - nothing like jumping in the deep end of chicken ownership...
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    Separating a varied flock

    Hello again, I am back looking for more advice! Since joining this forum I have actually just kept a tab up on my phone at all times - that is how helpful I find It! My situation is this: I am raising my first batch of chicks, and if that wasn't challenging enough, they are varied ages. I...
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    Stressed new chick and temperature

    I am not sure if this is an emergency or not, but I am hoping for some advice in quick order and thought posting is the best way- I picked up 3 chicks today from 2 different places - 2 buff orphingtons (day old and few weeks old) and an americana (about 4 weeks old). They were all in the same...
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    Broody Hen Health Advice

    Hi All! I joined this forum so I could get advice on my chickens - I am relatively new to ownership, and I tend to be a worrier! I was gifted three 1.5 year old barred rock hens in April of this year and I love having chickens so much, but it has been a rocky and eye opening path! One of the...
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    Nervous New Owner!

    Hi! I live in the Maritimes in Canada and I was gifted 3 mature barred rock hens a few months ago, and a whole new chicken addiction followed! We have a small hobby farm - the chickens, a horse and pony, a dog and a cat. I work days at a vet clinic, although we rarely deal with chickens, so my...
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