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    Pigeon visitor

    A homing pigeon came to visit us last summer. It stayed on the roof and also tired to sleep in our chicken coop. Last year we went to an extreme heat wave of 120°. I took pity on the bird and try to accommodate it, I also called the owners from the band I found on its Legs. They didn’t...
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    Water poop and Shell-less egg

    Today my chicken Fizzgig who is about three had clear stringy discharge dripping from her vent. Suddenly a shell-less egg dropped from her. She’s been pooping what looks like water but with white specks. I have a picture, but this one has a little fecal material in it. She also didn’t run...
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    Neighbors chickens are a hot mess

    I understand backyard chickens are kept for many reasons and that not all considers them pets and more livestock. I do believe that there is some etiquette for neighbors and humane treatment of the animals regardless of why one has a flock. That being said…. I live in the suburbs, not the...
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    Rhode Island Red Vs Gold sex link

    This is Toxie, she’s a pretty freaking awesome chicken. I bought her when I started my chicken adventure. Wilco told me she was a gold sex link back in 2019. I never really questioned it, when my friend got chickens I suggested the breed, she got three and they grew up to be strawberry blonde...
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    Non laying hens taking massive poos

    I have 8 chickens and variety of breeds. Half are three years old and the other half are two. Last year our gold sex link, started laying weird eggs like soft shelled, tailed or shell-less eggs. She was taken to the vet and given antibiotics. She maybe laid one or two normal eggs that year...
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    Respiratory systems related to bedding?

    I have 8 chickens. Today I noticed one making a weird noise. She has a very nervous personality in general. Many of her sisters have started laying for the season in the last few weeks and I thought she was due for her first egg which for her is always a big nervous squawking production...
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    Visiting bird..has bands around legs

    For the past few weeks a small white bird had been hanging out. It was even in the coop one day. It allows us to get pretty close. Today I noticed bands around the legs. We found out from the neighbors the last owner had homing pigeons in the coop. He used them to teach his dogs to hunt, I...
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    What happened to her butt?

    Her feathers in this area have always been a little ruffled looking. However, in one day I came home to her bald little back. I don’t have a rooster. I sprayer her with some blu-Kote thinking I’d find the suspect with a blue beak, but no luck. How can I help her? I have a chicken cam and...
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    Beaded egg

    Interesting egg, I figure it’s from excess calcium but the pattern is so uniform. Anyone else have an egg like this?
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    Soft eggs with tails for last few weeks

    I have a gold sex Link that’s is about 18 months old. She has been laying soft eggs with a tail for few weeks. Prior to this she laid one egg almost daily with no issues. I find her a with a weird soft shell tail hanging from her vent. I’ve helped her pass them my gently pulling on the tail...
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    Molt or illness

    I have a sex link that’s about 18 months. High producer of extra large eggs almost daily. She went off lay and I assumed it was a molt. However she’s been laying soft eggs or even eggs without any shell. Lost interest in supplemental calcium, she seems not herself just a little withdrawn...
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    Soft shell hanging from vent

    My gold sex link is about 18 months. She normally lays massive eggs almost daily. She stopped and I assumed it was molt time. But she still popped in the box now and then but hasn’t produced in almost a month. I came home to find her standing still with egg contents on the ground and what...
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    Roost drama

    I have a flock of 8 hens. 4 hatched in August and 4 in March. They have integrated in the coop, run and when free ranging. The problem is at night. My roost has a door that swings upwards over half of it and is held open with a bungee cord. 3 older chickens sleep to one side behind a...
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    Guess who’s egg

    We are debating who’s eggs. We have eight Chickens. A batch of four from last August that have all laid previously and a batch of four from March that have 3 confirmed layers. One of my old gals...a buff Brahma has been off lay for the last few weeks, because it is too friggin hot. One of...
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    Hot Brahma

    My poor Brahma looks so miserable. It’s been getting into the 90’s the past few days and my Brahma looks so hot. Her comb is pale often, although it pinks up when she’s excited. Egg laying is down to about one a week. She’s been panting during the day. She has a nice shady spot she likes in...
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    Olive Eggers are insane

    I have a mixed flock of 8 birds, 4 littles and 4 bigs. The only two birds that are the same is our olive eggers. Pixie and Tilly the Hen. I wanted a variety of egg colors so added these birds. They are mix of cream leg bars and welsummer. These birds are insane. I cannot with them....they...
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    Cream Legbar Mix

    I got these two hilarious looking chickens born March first. They are supposed to be olive eggers. Cream legbar mixed with welsummer. I’m pretty sure they are just cream legbars after looking at pictures. I guess only eggs will tell, but waiting another 9 weeks is driving me insane. Anyone...
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    Flock integration

    I have four girls that will be a year in August. This far most have been doing good and laying. I also have four little girls that are a little over three months. They recently made the move to cohabitating and I changed the feed to unmediated starter. Since then the big girls have decreased...
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    Limping/feather loss 2 month Sussex

    I have a mixed flock of 8 various breeds. Four of the girls will be a year old in August. The others are two months old. They were recently very slowly introduced in a common area during the day. The last week they started sleeping together, on separate roosts, but same coop. The coop is...
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    Silver laced Wyandotte

    This is (hopefully) miss Vindaloo, an almost 9 Week old silver laced Wyandotte. I initially suspected this to be a roo, due to a pink comb very early. However the comb has not gotten any pinker since then. (About 4 weeks). All other chicks purchased are now starting to pink up as well. I...
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