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    Ceremonies or rituals for putting down a chicken

    Hi, I hope this is the right section to post this. I have a 3 year old Rhode Island Red who I am pretty certain is laying internally because she has water belly and several large lumps on her side near her gizzard. She's clearly in pain and hasn't moved and has been barely been eating or...
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    Chicken is "decorating" herself with grass?

    You can see in the video below that she is picking up dried grass and leaves and trying to stick them to her backside: Is this a mating behavior? Is she being playful? This happened twice while I was sitting with her after removing her from the nesting box (she had been in there all day...
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    Entire flock not leaving roost in the morning

    I just went outside at 8:40am and heard all of my birds making noises on their roost inside the coop. I've had my birds for two and a half years, and usually, if the sun's up, they're up. I have a long run, and their food and water is at the farthest end of it, quite a ways from the coop, so...
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    Hilarious hens are co-parenting two chicks

    I decided to let my super broody black austrolorp, Angel, hatch eggs this spring. Unfortunately, the eggs (which I ordered on ebay) never hatched, despite her constantly sitting on them, and even going into lockdown in week three. Several of them actually exploded and it was disgusting. I ended...
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