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    Lethargic hen - 1 year 3 months old

    Hello byc’ers I’m hoping you can all help - my buff who is smaller than her hatch mates has been showing some worrying signs and has me freaking out right now. I noticed yesterday she was in the nesting box for longer than her normal time. She had poop in it which is unusual, and on her (it’s...
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    Cleaned up poopy butt now bloody HELP

    I have an almost 1 year old EE when I bent down to pet I noticed she had some dropping’s stuck to her butt so in she went for a bath. I trimmed all the feathers back affected and washed really well with soap. And it’s looks bruised/bloody. I sprayed vetrycin on it and have her wrapped up in...
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    Time and TIME AGAIN...40 lbs of organic pellets in 2 weeks and 4 days. WTF?

    I purchased a bag of Dumor organic layer pellets January 1st. It's now TWO weeks since I purchased it and I just put the last bit into the feeder today and bought a new bag this afternoon. I probably won't refill their (12 ladies who are all laying except 1 lone lady which is a SLW) feeder until...
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    Thin egg shells - when will it be resolved?

    I have had free choice mannapro oyster shells for the last few months in a separate dish but I noticed my buff orphingtons will not really touch it. My Easter eggers and marans will. I have just started the transition from all flock to dumor layer. I had 1 broken egg in the nesting box, and...
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    Switching feed

    I have 6/12 ladies lying and 2 more are squatting but not laying yet so any day now. They’re all hitting 26 - 39 weeks. Is it safe to switch to layer feed without them all laying? They’re currently on all flock by manna pro.
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    Revenge is sweet (kid/toddler toy christmas related)

    My nephew turns 2, four days before Christmas. I joked around and told my sister that he deserves a ball pit with 200 plastic balls as it was kept in my own living room for 2 YEARS!! (2 YEARS!!!) between 2 CHILDREN. She said "no way". I just bought a tent, tube AND a pool to be filled with...
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    Adding ducks with chickens

    Like a lot of us - I am adding to my ladies this spring in 2021. :D I currently have 1 black swedish and 2 saxony ducklings in my cart. I have a three walled coop, attached to a run. My ladies free range in my acre daily (unless i notice a lot of hawk activity). I have a dropping board with a...
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    New layer?? Or random light colored egg?

    I have 8 ladies who are technically laying age. 3 as I know are laying - 2 Easter eggers and 1 buff Orpington. The one buff is squatting big time and started the day before thanksgiving. I haven’t caught her in the act yet if she even was laying. But this lovely light brown egg was found in...
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    BCM Pullets plumage question

    My ladies were EST DOB 6/14. Making them roughly 18 weeks. None of them have copper in them, and all a beautiful, glossy, iridescent black. Lovely fluffy girls with a very calm demeanor. They're definitely not a cuddle chicken by any means but they're lovely to watch and give their couple a...
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    This beauty showed up this morning when i was cleaning with the most insane bloom and calcium

    The bloom on this egg makes the egg seem more green than my other EE who has more of a blue tint. So out of all my pullets 3/12 are laying. EEs are very dependable giving me 2 eggs a day and my buff tends to lay every day giving me beautiful largish eggs (very large medium eggs but not quite...
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    Pullets chose where to lay. Not in nesting box.

    I have a lady who laid two weeks before the other. She decided under the roosting bar dropping board, beside the nesting box was a perfectly safe and good place to lay. Naturally, like most ladies..if it’s good enough for her and safe then it must be for me? Mentality kicked in. Now my buff...
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    Ducklings in the spring - hatcheries

    Best hatcheries to order ducklings in the southeast in the spring? Undecided though for what breed but I have an idea.
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    Laid 1 egg on Sunday but...weird behavior?

    She's not (Buff Orpington 29 weeks) technically in the nesting box. She's beside it and she's been in her own little nest she's created for herself from a hole she had dug. A newly laying hen can't go broody, can they? After one egg? she doesn't trill, or fluff up her feathers when i stuck my...
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    Yes, Christmas is 72 days away but...[DIY ideas needed and add your own you’ve done in your past]

    I’m on a pretty strict Christmas budget this year. My pullets are not laying yet but they will be within the month (squatting, two finger spaces and fluffy butt up and downs). I live in Florida so, I was going to give all 4 family groupings some eggs. But I don’t necessarily want to just give...
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    sprouts for pullets

    I bought a top to germinate some sprouts for my pullets. Does anyone have a premade mix they can recommend? (that i can pick up locally usually..) i have a bad of chicks mix from TS from this summer. Will this do for sprouting? or should I pick up something else?
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    Egg songs?

    27 week old buffs all bawking together. Is it time? They have access to oyster shells and their nest boxes. My EES are 20 weeks. I say they’re not ready. Just eating their vocals.
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    Duck house plans help

    I am looking to add 2-3 ducks to my property next spring. I figured this fall/winter it would give me plenty of time to build such a duck house and a small run. I read that it's the general recommendation 6-10 sq ft per a bird for a run and the 4ft - 6ft per a bird in the coop still applies to...
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    Feather loss or weird feather growth?

    So, no chicks in my last two batches have I seen this. This is my first experience with this breed though. She is four weeks old, and I have not witnessed feather picking or stomping on one another as they are in my garage in a brooder. I go out there all the time. I have not either noticed...
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    The wait is on

    1 out of my 4 BOs comb has gotten "thicker" and more red, including her cheeks and waddles. The other 3 ladies combs are still pink, and their waddles haven't came in yet as much, nor are they red. She's been very noisy lately. They all have been quite noisy as my husband remarked to me two days...
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    Tropical Storm prep Central FL seminole county

    I currently have an OPEN air coop (3 walls, 60 sq ft coop, 8 chickens, and a 120 sq ft run). Everything is cemented down, hardware cloth is secure with washers and screws. Its roof is also anchored down. I'm not necessarily worried about the coop...just the ladies. But, i have 8 ladies in my...
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