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    Young hen started laying, then stopped

    Hello fellow chicken keepers, wondering if anyone can help me solve my little mystery here. My hen, a Starlight Green Egger (first pic attached) was the first of her batch to start laying, around 17 weeks. She laid several eggs in succession, each getting bigger until they were nearly normal...
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    Missing feathers- normal or cause for concern?

    I have 11 chickens that are a year old. Starting in late fall and throughout winter several of them (6 by my count) lost feathers in what appeared to be normal molting...some lost a lot all over and some lost mainly all around the neck and a few spots on the body. All grew back just fine. I now...
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    How bad does molting affect a chicken?

    I have 11 chickens that are about 10 months old. Two of them are a hybrid/mutt called starlight green eggers. They were bought at the same time from the same place. We live in WI and it has gotten cold but not frigid. One of them is fine...no real drop in egg production, looks fine, very active...
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    Cuckoo Maran lying down a lot

    Newish chicken owner with a weird question. I have a cuckoo maran that is about 6 months old, in a flock of 11. Not the best layer yet from what I can tell, and a few days ago there was a soft shell egg that I think might have been hers, and may have been laid off the roost. She is lying down a...
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    My EE is not laying in the nest box

    I’m new to chicken raising and My EE Hazel is having some trouble. She laid her 4th egg today and none have been in the nest box. The first day she laid she was very nervous and agitated for an hour or so. I was outside the whole time, went around the side of the house for a few minutes and when...
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    Sweet PDZ or zeolite as bedding, not just additive?

    I have a coop on the smaller side, about 5x5, and the floor is raised so I don’t have the option of doing a poop board set up. Believe me, I tried. I tried the river or construction sand and I’m not loving it. The poop gets kind of breaded, for lack of a better word, and unless I clean it out...
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    Is Ethel really an Eddie?

    I have what I believe to be 2 red sex link chickens. They are between 14-16 weeks old. They were bought together from a hardware store that sources from a reputable hatchery, that sells many "breeds" of red sex links. Long story short on the day I bought them they were not sorted by breed like...
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    Red light on in the new coop?

    So just when I think I've worried about everything with my chickens as a first time chicken mama...🙄 We moved our chickens out to the coop today. They are about 6-7 weeks old and feathered. They absolutely loved hanging out in the attached run today and when I got them into the coop and closed...
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    What are these?

    Hi all! I have some chicks that are about 4 weeks old. 5 of them I know for sure what they are, but some I have questions on. The place we got them didn't have them all separated by breed like some places do. This girl is on the smaller side. She is all dark brown and her feathers are coming...
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    Free Range or Yarded- Newbie needs help!

    I am brand new to raising chickens and I am debating on how to manage them...we have about an acre of unfenced land and a coop that's been given to us by friends. I'd like to let them out, but I have some concerns: 1.) We live pretty close to a road that sees a decent amount of traffic. 2.) I...
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