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    Araucana chick with very scraggly feathers

    Hi everyone, Hope you're all staying safe and staying home. We have two 7 week old araucana chicks which we hatched from eggs, one is feathering very well and the other looks rather scraggly (see photos below). Does anyone know why this might be? Also any ideas on whether they might be hens or...
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    Impacted Crop or Something else, help!

    Hi can you help?? We're quite new to backyard chicken keeping, we've had ours for about 6 months now. A couple of days ago we noticed that our two big black orpingtons have lost feathers on their chests. We thought it was due to mites, so we treated the coop and the chickens and hoped for the...
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    Egg comparison

    Hello friends, Another question from Clucky Cath.. We have Barred Rocks and Black Orpingtons. Could anyone tell us which egg is from which breed? Thanks :wee
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    Hole in egg

    Hi there, can anyone help?? We recently bought 2 black orpingtons. We've noticed that the last 3 eggs they have layed have a hole or crack in them, always in the same spot. We have fake eggs in the boxes, we've been feeding them oyster shell and we're really not sure what's going on. The eggs...
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    Barred Rock Bullies

    Needing some advice on chicken bullying... A couple of months ago we got 4 barred rock pullets and have recently added 2 orpingtons to our small flock. We introduced the orpingtons slowly and kept them separate from the rocks for a while. Now they are all in the same coop/run together (the run...
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