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    Swollen head and comb

    This is Jack my oldest chicken. Today I was going out to wet their dirt and cool them off since we are experiencing high 90° here is SoCal and I noticed she has a swollen head and comb. I have isolated her just in case but I’m not finding anything online that describes her symptoms. Aside from...
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    Rooster Died but Why?

    Hello chicken family! I’ve been raising chickens for 2 1/2 years and this is the first time we have lost a bird that wasn’t to a predator. So I’m wanting to learn from this experience and figure out what happened. So yesterday we had some friends over. One of my friends have kids that are...
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    We need help sexing and the breed.

    My husband and I hatched these babies 19 weeks ago. We know 1 is a rooster. But what breed is he? We don’t know breed or gender in 2 or 3. Let us know your opinions!
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    Aggressive rooster

    Hello! We have an aggressive rooster we are planning to process. However I have a 5 year old son and 3 year old twin boys and idk how to approach this with them. They hate This rooster because he has attempted to attack all of them. I don’t want them to grow up and think we kill things that we...
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    White Plymouth Rock Roo?

    I think my pullet turned roo what do you guys think? He’s about 15 weeks. The other chickens around him are the same agebut different breeds. Well I do have a barred rock you can see a tiny bit of but she’s a year old.
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    Exploding or late bloomer

    Hi chicken friends! This is my first time incubating eggs. I got 19 chicken eggs. At day 18 when we began lockdown we discarded 6 that were obvious duds. Day 22 and 23 we welcomed 4 babies. Being my first time I was ok we only got 4. The end of day 24 I candelled and had a hard time deciding to...
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    Egg bound day 10?

    I have what I thought was an egg bound hen. I brought her in bathed her, gave her calcium, lubed her up. I did this everyday. After day 2 she perked up, got her spunk back but still no egg. I can feel it I know it’s there. I can see her contracting. She is 10 months old and laying. She is...
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    Egg bound question

    I have a hen that I’m pretty sure is egg bound. I found her in the corner of the coop sitting with her feathers fluffed out. Her tail seems to be pulsing and once I looked at her vent it looks like egg whites could be coming out. I got her into an epsom salt bath now but I read to give her...
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    Heat Lamp Question

    Good Morning, I have 4 babies that were born 2/6/19 so they are just under 4 weeks old. I NEED them out of my bathroom. So last night I was setting up a bigger brooder in the garage and turned on the heat lamp to warm it up before they went out there and the bulb burnt out. I have ordered a new...
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    Suddenly laying in yard

    Good Afternoon BYC!!!! I have 5 pullets all 30 weeks. As far as I know I only have 1 layer. She was laying so well 1 egg a day for almost a month and always in the same nesting box. Then last week for a few days she laid on the coop floor and now she just doesn't care and is laying in the...
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    Pullet won't accept new (old) hens

    Hello everyone!!!! I am brand new to BackYard Chickens and I really need some help. I got 5 baby chicks 27 weeks ago. Well I also have 2 year old twin boys so waiting for eggs was becoming hard. I decided to get some older hens to help get some eggs while waiting for my original 5 to be ready to...
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