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    My hen won’t stop being broody

    Hey guys, so about two weeks ago the hen I’m taking to fair got broody.. no big deal right? I caught it early. No problem! *wrong! My hen is still broody and it’s a week before fair! She is very determined. If I lock her out she’ll fly on top of the coup! I kinda really need to fix this problem...
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    Chicken bath “recipes”

    Hey guys, So my chickens have some kind of mites right now (they get them almost every year) and I’ve dusted them with some chicken permethrin but they still need a bath. I caught the mites early so they aren’t that bad right now so please don’t assume I’m under reacting cause I know how bad...
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    Maybe looking for fertilized eggs in MI

    Hey guys! So recently my rooster died so we don't have fertile eggs anymore. And yesterday my best hen got kinda broody she is a really good mother and if we ever got chicks again we would want her to hatch them! We prefer araucanas/ameraucanas(Easter eggers) I know this is kinda a long shot...
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    Old hen still laying

    Hey! I have a 13 year old ameraucana that still lays eggs. Whenever she's in the nesting box and is about to lay one she starts to yell at me( that's what I call it anyway cause I'm pretty sure that's what she's doing)and once in a while she will have an egg with a soft shell. She has been...
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    turkeys turkeys and more turkeys

    I have a lot of wild turkeys that come around every day looking for chicken food recently I've moved the chicken feed into the coop but sometimes I catch them in there! The are even getting slightly tame and only run off once I get within ten feet of them! Once I even got so close I could've...
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    Flies keep biting my chickens!

    Ok so I have three hens and starting last year in the summer there have been these little fly type bugs that land on my girls faces and just suck their blood they eventually went away for winter but now they are back again. I don't think that they are flees cause they fly around a lot and I've...
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    My chicken adventures!part 1

    Hey! I'm new to byc and when I discovered this thread I decided to tell a bunch of different stories of me and my chickens ( I have some pretty wacky ones )!!! Ok! Let's get started! Alrighty, so I live in northern lower Michigan. And since my parents probs don't want me to give my name out on...
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    Too many hawks

    Hey. We live in the woods but our yard is really open to hawk attacks. We've had a few really close calls but thankfully nobody has met their doom...yet... Does anybody know if there's a way to keep hawks away?? (Hehe that kinda rhymed!)(sry I have a weird humor...)
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    New rooster???

    Hey, so recently my roo passed away:hitfrom what I figured was coccidiosis. And my three hens are all kinda scattered about not looking like much of a flock. The two normal size hens somewhat stick 2gether but they always seem to ditch my little bantam ( they don't really like her my roo was the...
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    Coccidiosis prevention

    hello, my roo died this morning with what we suspected was coccidiosis...:th We were only able to get one dose of Corid in him before he died. We are planning to give the three hens the five day treatment and then put the Corid in their water for the 21 day prevention. I was wondering if you...
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    Hey everyone!!

    Hey byc community!! I'm new but I've known about backyardchickens for a while. I'm not good at copying and pasting so I don't have those handy dandy questions with me but I'll try my best! I've had chickens for as long as I can remember! we only have four chickens at the moment. One maybe 5...
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