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    Chicken ‘Blinders’ - Effective? Humane?

    So I’ve tried integrating four of my oldest chicks (about 10 weeks) with my four existing, 3 yr. old hens, 2 Americanas and 2 Dominiques. I kept the younger ones in a large dog crate next to the coop during the day for about a week, then we put them together and crossed our fingers. Of course...
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    Sudden neck kink and balance issues in 2 week old Polish - what happened?

    I brought home a brand new Polish chick along with a Cochin chick 2 weeks ago; they’re in the same brooder, eating Chick Starter and have been doing fine. Yesterday morning, I noticed that my Polish is holding her head tilted up to the right, and her neck remains slightly bent; she maintains...
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    Wellsummer walking funny, not laying

    My 1 1/2 yo Wellsummer hasn’t been laying for around a week, and yesterday when I let the chickens out I noticed she was waddling funny. I checked and she’s not egg-bound but that whole area looks red and inflamed. Any ideas?
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    Wellsummer eggs lost their speckles...?

    Hi, we’ve been enjoying the beautiful speckled eggs our Wellsummer (Ginger) has been laying since about October; however, recently the eggs have been a slightly lighter brown, with no speckles (kind of hard to see in the pics, but on the left are older eggs from a couple of weeks ago and the...
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    Hello from Pleasant Valley, NY!

    my name is Tracy (but you can call me Magpye) and our family moved to upstate New York in June of 2017; this spring my husband built an amazing coop, and we now have 2 Americaunas (Bertha and Nutmeg), one Welsummer (Ginger), one Light Brahma (Snowball), 2 Dominiques (Dumb and Dumber) and one...
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