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    Starter/grower or layer feed?

    So I have a small flock of 6 that I purchased when they were a day or so old on April 1st. I have recently gotten four eggs from one pullet, but the other 5 are not laying yet. I am nearing the end of the bag of chick starter and wondering if I need to go ahead and buy a bag of layer feed even...
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    Do the same breeds feather differently?

    So I have 6 chicks (4 Ameraucana, 1 Blue Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington) that will be a month old this week. Five of them are almost fully feathered - they still just have a little fuzz around their head. But one of them barely has any feathers at all (an Ameraucana). I am wondering why there is...
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    Long time, no see!

    Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've been on here. I originally joined at the beginning of 2019 when I got my first chickens, but I had to sell them all in the fall of 2021 since I was going to college. I have missed them so much every day, but the good news is we have decided it's time we...
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    bumblefoot

    i have a hen that has bumblefoot but my mom is worried that the infection could spread to us or other chickens. i’m not really sure what to do. she said that staph is bad and that we don’t need to come in contact with it. i don’t think we have an avain vet around either but i’m not sure. also...
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    Crushed day 20 egg

    Ok so I went to check on my chickens and I went to see the broody and I looked under her cause I thought that maybe one might have pipped ya know just hoping and I looked and one was completely crushed and there was blood on it. I didn’t think that it was still alive but it was still warm where...
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    Mama and babies with the rest of the flock?

    So I have probably went about this wrong but it was the only option. I had a pullet go broody and I let her sit for about a week before I decided to give her eggs. When I finally gave her eggs other chickens were still laying in the nesting box she was in. I had 7 other nesting boxes and they...
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    Two broody hens?

    Ok so I have a SLW that has been broody for the past week so we finally decided to give her some eggs and we put them under her and then she got off the nest to eat and drink and roll around and stuff and while she was doing that one of my BOs came and sat on all the eggs before the SLW could...
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    Very confused

    Ok so I had four chicks hatch approximately ten weeks and four days ago. Two are for sure pullets and one is a for sure a cockerel but the other one I am so stumped on it’s not even funny. One day I think he’s a cockerel and the next day I’m not sure. I know for sure it isn’t a pullet so that...
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    Chicken Saddles

    So I’m just trying to think a few months ahead on this one. So I had 19 hens/pullets and 1 cockerel. Well I don’t know for sure if he just had a few favorites or if there were a few with fragile feather shafts but we have about 5-6 out of the 19 to have feathers gone and out of those 5-6, 1-2...
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    HELP!! chicken with a bloody beak!!

    So I was looking at our younger chickens and my brother was looking at the regular flock and he noticed that Goldie Locks was bleeding from her beak!! She was dripping blood but she was still trying to eat and drink. All of the other chickens were trying to peck at her so I put her in a dog...
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    Which Chickens Are Laying Which Eggs??

    Ok so today all of my brown egg layers laid!! I would like to know which eggs belong to which of my chickens. The types of chickens I have that lay brown eggs are: Light Brahma-1 New Hampshire Red-1 Golden Buff-2 Barred Rock-2 Black Sex Link-2 Silver Laced Wyandotte-2 Buff Orpington-4 Eggs 1&2...
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    Hens have poopy butt

    Hi I do know that chicks get pasty butt because I’ve had to deal with that once but my hens seem to be getting a poopy butt. There is only a few of them like that out of them all and they still poop normally. What is causing this? And what can I do to stop it? Oh and also today we cut what we...
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    Not an emergency

    Ok so this isn’t an emergency more like a question that pertains to an injury. I don’t even know if I need to post this here but 🤷‍♀️. So I had 1 cockerel and 19 pullets and he had over mated only a few of them and they have lost all their feathers on their backs and a little on their wings. I...
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    I got rid of my cockerel

    I got rid of my cockerel and I could not be happier!! I did not like him and he did not like me. I sold him yesterday for $10. Best $10 I’ve ever made!! He loved to try and attack me whenever I was in the coop and I had to keep my eyes on him at all times. I told the buyers that he was a bit...
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    Egg Eaters

    So I made a thread about messy eggs and some of the feedback suggested that I might have some egg eaters. Welp I do. I went to the coop today and when I went to collect the eggs I noticed that one had a hole in it about the size of a dime and the contents had leaked out a little (giving me more...
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    Sexing Chicks

    Is it possible to sex my chicks that are a week/almost a week old? If it is I will post pictures here
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    Messy eggs?

    Does anyone else get messy eggs?? Most days they are so clean or just have a little bit of poo on them but every once in a while all of the eggs are so nasty and I have to scrub them so hard to get it all off. And it’s not all poo either. Is this happening to anybody else or just me?
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    Overmating?

    I have 1 rooster and 19 hens and it seems that he prefers just 2 or 3 out of the 19 because 2-3 are losing all their feathers on their backs and you can almost see the skin. The other hens are fine but it seems like the rooster is very aggressive when it comes to mating. Is there anyway I can...
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    Instagram for chickens?

    I have an Instagram account for my chickens. Is that weird? I think it’s cute to share pictures of them.
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    What breed are these?

    So they hatched yesterday night/early this morning and their father is a light Brahma but I do not know who their mothers are! I have a solid black chick and the only black hens I have or hens with black on them is a black sex link, a silver laced Wyandotte, or a barred rock. The second chick is...
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