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    Silver Leghorns and wing clipping

    Hey everyone! Happy new year and I hope everyone is covid-free. Our flock is doing really well but we're facing our least lethal hurdle to date Our Silver Leghorns can get clear of our 6' run fence. When we go to clip their feathers however, their primary feather stems still look very...
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    Beak injury

    Posting a couple photos of an easter egger that is in some rough shape. She's lost 1/4 of her body weight in the past month. She's not very energetic these days, but we suspect that might be from lack of calories. The only thing that we've noted about her is an injury on her beak by her left...
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    Young pullets stop maturing

    Hello again! We're facing another head scratcher. I know it sounds weird, but I'm not sure how else to describe it. We have a 6 month old yellow sex-link that seems to have stopped maturing. The sex-link's sister has a full comb and waddles and has begun laying. She's about 2 weeks into almost...
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    BUYER BEWARE: Blue Star Chicken Ranch in Austin TX

    TL;DR: DON'T DO IT. Two recent necropsies show we have Mareks disease and respiratory illness in our flock, and investigation/tracing proves it came from Blue Star. If you are in the Central Texas/Austin area, get your chicks from Tractor Supply, Callahan's, or if you really want to buy from a...
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    Swollen toe in week old chick

    We have no idea what's happening with this BCM chick's toe. She is behaving normally from what we can tell, but her outside toe is swollen, red, and I think feels a bit warm (although difficult to really tell). She's walking fine. She's in a brooder box with two other BCM chicks, who are fine...
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    Logistics: bantam & standard co-housing

    I've seen a few threads addressing "can you keep bantams & standards together" etc. That is not what I'm asking here! By the miracles (??) of chicken math, we've ended up with a bantam cochin frizzle. She's about 10 or so weeks old now, and is currently hanging out in a little "starter" coop...
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    Head down, tail up--anyone seen this?

    TL;DR: sick chicken who appeared overheated a week ago now heavy breathing with head in the ground, tail straight up. Pupils very large & undefined (obvs Mareks concern). Anyone seen this?? We've got a 5-5.5 month old Easter Egger (Tammy) looking very poorly lately. About a week ago, after...
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    Coccidiosis? Secondary infection? Worms?

    This is a continuation of a previously posted thread about recommended Corid dosage; I've moved here because I don't want to hijack that thread any further. To see the original thread with background info about our specific issue with our 5.5 month old Easter Egger Peg, along with Corid dosage...
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    Pulled hamstring

    No, seriously. I'm not sure what happened to one of my 4month old pullets, but in the flurry that is the daily kale treat - she came out of it with a bum leg. She walks like she has a pulled muscle or a sprained ankle. She spend most of her day sedentary. She hobbles over to the feed and water...
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    Rain, mud, muck and mold?

    Hey community! For all the years of drought and endless sun beating down on Central Texas, this year has proved to be a wet one (at least for Texas standards). The enclosed run for my flock is around 12'x30'. Nearly half of that is covered stays dry. The remainder however gets pretty mucked up...
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    Droopy tail and wings. The slow decline

    I have a flock of pullets that seem to all be healthy and doing well. Out of the blue, one of them is slow to move one morning. Her tail is down, droopy wings, and an all around lethargy. There's no eye goop, no discharge from her nose. Nothing that leads to me to think that she has something...
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    Sweaty feathers?

    Hello all! Yesterday afternoon, I had a bit of sadness creep into the run. I found one of my 10 week old Easter Eggers dead. It seemed like it was out of nowhere, but when I look at my notes from the week I think there may be some signs that I wasn't reading correctly. I'm hoping to have the...
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    Introducing young chickens to a flock and separating food

    All, I know this is a tired question and conversation. I've searched and read through several posts on when to integrate new chickens with an existing flock. Seems like there are a lot of opinions, so why not ask for one more. This is a bit of a play on the question and a pointed question on the...
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    2 hen houses 1 flock?

    Good morning all! I'm faced with a tricky proposition. I have the chance to pick up some additional birds of a breed that I've wanted but missing from my flock. My run has plenty of space to accommodate the addition. My henhouse however, doesn't. What challenges am I facing if I were to...
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    Runny, bloody poop from a month old chick

    Hello all! I have a couple of month old chicks that have been sequestered in the old dog crate with a straw bed, water, chick feed and a heat lamp. Upon their month anniversary, I gave them a half-day in the run and I think one of them got a hold of something she shouldn't have. Today I found...
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    Are all sneezes bad? Or is this PTSD on my part?

    Hello community! I'm looking for some wisdom on chicken sneezes. I won't go into the full backstory, but about a year ago a respiratory infection went through my flock and left me with heavy casualties. Ever since, the faintest sneeze earns a chicken time in solitary to determine if she's caught...
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    A blatant copy of Carolina Coops

    My first coop was small and commercially manufactured. It took all of a week before I realized that I needed something bigger even if I didn't intend to grow my flock. Looking around the internet, I quickly came to the decision that Carolina Coops was the Cadillac of hen houses. Unfortunately...
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    New member in Austin, Texas

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am new to chickens as a matter of fact. I've kept a flock for just under a year. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have 18 birds and should have closer to 24 by Summer. (3) What breeds do you have? A variety...Easter...
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