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    One chicken with mushy yellow poop, no sign of worms. Help!

    1) Deathlayer, 15 weeks old and maybe 2 lbs. She seems very thin. 2) She is laying down a lot. She does still get up to eat, drink, and roost, but her tail and wings are droopy and when she walks she seems really weak. 3) The drooping and laying around have only been happening a couple of...
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    Insulating the ceiling of my coop?

    My coop has a metal roof with one panel of opaque plastic sheeting to let in light during the day. In the inside there’s currently a layer of vapor barrier. It’s supposed to get down in the teens and even down to ten in the next few days and I’m nervous it won’t stay warm enough in there. The...
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    What’s wrong with my baby?! 😥

    My one day old Mille Fleur is super tiny. She struggled during the hatch and took forever to unzip. When she came out a teeny tiny bit of yolk was still left and her cord was still attached. She fluffed up and seemed ok so we put her in the brooder with the other two. Now she’s making this weird...
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    Eating dropped feathers...

    Noob question... If my 8-week old pullets are eating all of the free-floating random feathers but not pulling them out of each other should I be concerned or is that pretty standard? I just switched them off of the chick starter feed (20% protein) and on to the pullet developer (16% protein)...
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    What the heck?!

    This chicken is supposed to be a Columbian Wyandotte. When it was a bitty baby it looked exactly like the other Columbian Wyandotte chicks. It is seven weeks old now and still doesn’t have all of its feathers. It was the last chick to feather in my flock. It looks more like a silver laced to me...
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    Smallish Yard in an Urban Area - Predators?

    We live in a fairly densely populated urban area with 6’ vinyl fences. Our entire lot including the house is just under a quarter of an acre. We set aside a good part of the yard for the chickens. My question is, do I need to worry a lot about predators? If so, how much and what kind? The coop...
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    Living Their Best Life While Improving Ours

    I NEVER in a million years would have thought that I would be obsessed with chickens! Short story... I am. 😁 They are such delightful little things and we spend each morning sitting in their yard in lawn chairs just watching them. It’s been so therapeutic throughout all of this COVID/world...
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    My chicks are weirdos... Should I worry?

    So they’re out in the coop and doing well as far as I can tell but they’re all grouped around the entrance hole every night instead of inside the spacious coop on the roosting bars. Should I just let them do their thing or do I need to move them inside more? Whenever I move them they just go...
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    4.5 Weeks First Night Outside

    Our 13 girls are four and a half weeks old and all but two are dang close to fully feathered. I’m fairly certain the two half feathered ones are Roos. 😢 I have been gradually putting them outside in a small coop/run for longer and longer every day since they were about two weeks old as long as...
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    Roos???

    I’m going crazy trying to determine if these two are Roos! The first one is a Columbian Wyandotte and the second is a Gold Sex Link. I have mild concerns about some of the others (I have 13 three week old chicks total) but these two were the last to get feathers. Do females ever have delayed...
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    Chickens - Because they're a lot more fun to think about than everything else going on right now...

    Hello! We are brand new to chickens! We just got our first flock on 4/10 - 4/11. We have 13 chicks right now that are 3 weeks old. So far we haven't lost any thank heavens! I think my heart would break if we did! We have two Easter Eggers (Mislabeled as Ameraucanas by IFA 🙁), two Columbian...
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