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    PLEASE HELP - Hen lethargic, lost weight, clogged vent

    Hi, Today I noticed one of our hens, a three-year-old mixed-breed, was standing stiffly in the run with all of her feather fluffed up around her, looking for all the world like someone with a cold trying to keep themselves warm. When I picked her up, I noticed that she had lost a lot of weight...
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    Injured hen wound turning green - PICTURES INCLUDED

    Hi, We have a three-year old mixed-breed hen, Pippin, who was attacked by the neighbor's dog about three days ago. She had some skin and muscle torn off of the "elbow" of her wing, but was otherwise unharmed. We have kept her inside and alone, and cleaned her wound every day with diluted...
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    New Chick Pics!

    Hi! We have some new chicks & I had some fun making some little portraits (to their extreme displeasure), so enjoy! Hope you liked them! Got to give them names now... (ETA more pics ;)
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    Eden Farms in VA-anyone been there?

    Hi! We're thinking of getting just a few chicks to augment our small flock from Eden Farms, near Richmond in Virginia. This is their website: http://edenfarmsonline.com/7.html Anyone been there for chickens/chicks/hatching eggs? Good/bad idea? We were thinking of getting a BR, BO, and blue...
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    Question about abnormal eggs

    So, I have a question: We have four hens who have been laying since the spring of 2010. In their entire laying careers, we've only ever had three "mistakes:" Two eggs laid while they were asleep and one tiny egg with a super-thick shell. Now, this this past week alone, they've laid one tiny egg...
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    That was fun!!

    I was cleaning out our coop the other day, and it has a lot of little corners and angles that you either have to attack with a whisk broom or blow on with all your might to get the dust and dirty bedding out. Which is a fairly big project. So yesterday, I was doing exactly that, and I had the...
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    A Toast

    A toast to our eggnog, courtesy of the hens! A toast to all of the eggnog out there, courtesy of chickens who are loved by all of you. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everybody here. May you all (and your chickens) have a wonderful holiday season and a new year! And I heard him exclaim...
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    The egg we got yesterday!

    Yesterday evening, I opened up the nest boxes to find... Just for perspective, here is a normal egg laid by that same hen... Just to be straight: this hen is not a bantam, and this is not her first egg. In fact, it is smaller than the first egg that we ever got. Ever. Never seen...
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    Scabs On Comb: Picking or Worse?

    Preface: So, over the past week or two, I have been noticing that one of our hens (Nutmeg) has been getting these black scabs on her comb. She doesn't get picked on a lot (as far as I know) and we have no roosters. It has been as cold as 27 degrees (F) around here at night and their coop is not...
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    Are these eggs fertile???

    So, if I've done my reading correctly, a bullseye on an egg means it's fertile, right? So: are these fertile?? Our hens HAVE NOT had contact with a rooster for three months. Shortly after that time period, I was definitely seeing the bullseyes. But if these are the same thing, it'd be a medical...
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    How much scratch, & when?

    Our four hens (contrary to my username ) are ~9 months old. We recently got them back, and the person taking care of them was feeding them scratch, so we got some, too. So, my question is, how much? I've read you're not supposed to give them too much...is there a set amount per hen? Also, I've...
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    Electric lawnmower

    Hey everyone! We were thinking about getting an electric lawnmower: much less pollution, quieter, easier to push () However, our yard is to big for a corded one. Has anyone had a good/bad experience with an cordless electric lawnmower? If so, what model?? DID YOU KNOW:::: Using a lawnmower for...
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    The Best Weed?

    So, the chickens have been in their run for about two months now, during which time they have (predictably) reduced it to bare earth. We are fortunate enough to be obligated to be somewhere else for my parents's jobs in the summer, so someone with a large flock of chickens is going to take care...
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    How do you post a video?

    My question is that: how do you post a video to your BYC page?? Is it possible? I have seen it done, but I'm not a computer genius. Thanks! (Sorry to introduce a completely non-chicken topic...)
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    Run fortifications?

    So, we are building a run for our four hens, as we will not be around to keep an eye on them for most of the day, and I was wondering if the fortifications we had in mind for it are enough. (I've read about predators breaking through chicken wire and getting under fences, etc.) we have 2x2 wire...
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