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    Targeted chicken, integrating new pullets--could use some advice

    Hello wise and experienced chicken keepers! I currently have a flock of 8 4 year old ladies (we became chicken keepers during the pandemic as many did)--3 australorps, 3 sapphire gems, one Easter egger, and one speckled Sussex. They are not able to free-range due to predators--found that out a...
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    Baby chick eye issue

    We just brought home 4 baby chicks...a few days old. Got home and upon inspection, found out One's eye is not normal. Anyone know if this is a birth defect, disease or injury? I have no problem with a one-eyed hen...just want to know if this is something that could spread or if I should be...
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    Possible bumblefoot?

    Hello, 3-4 year old sapphire gem (name is Luna) with a swollen area between her toes. Don't see any black part like I hear for bumblefoot and she is using it as normal, but....that definitely doesnt look normal. I've never had a chicken with a foot issue, so I need some help. She is in a run...
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    Is this frostbite?

    My sapphire gem showed up today looking like this. It was very cold last night (30 f--compared to most other nights) and I'm just wondering if this is pecking order issues or frostbite...or something else. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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    Lice or Mite Identification help

    Hi. My easter egger just started laying a few days ago--and I found some bugs on the eggs the last two days. I managed to finally catch her and yes, there are definitely bugs on her as well, and so I am assuming others in the flock have them as well and we need to treat. Will be spot-checking a...
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    Cockrell or Pullet 9 weeks?

    Hi--this one is 9 1/2 weeks old. Name is Luna...for now. Sold to me as a sapphire gem pullet which is sex linked, so I would have thought that one would be an easier one to get right by the people who sold her...but I'm questioning. S/he pinked up faster than all her flockmates, and still is...
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    Integrating 6 week old chicks in with 2 13 week pullets?

    Hello, Long story short, we had a flock of 9 ladies, but a fox got all but one. Heartbreaking. So we got another pullet of the same age to join the survivor so she wasn't alone while we raised some more chicks. We now have 8 6 week old chicks out in the run that is attached to the coop, which...
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    Runty Speckled Sussex?

    Hi, I got 8 chicks at 2 weeks old a few weeks ago. They will all be 5 weeks in 2 days. I got one speckled sussex...but she is tiny. So tiny compared to the others. She is feathering, a bit raggedly in areas, but while she is growing, she just isn't quite keeping up. No one picks on her, per...
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    Breed and maybe gender?

    Hello....I picked up these two chickies a few weeks ago, being told that they were both Sapphire Gem pullets. Hmmmm.... what do you all think? The lighter one is the color of my other older SG, but those are pretty dark feathers on the other. Any thoughts? I didn't think there was that much...
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    Does this need attention? Poo pics included.

    Hi. Two week old chicks we got Wed with our older pullet have settled in and are acting fine, but my son and I noticed these poos this morning. My brain goes bad places real fast, so I thought I'd ask you all....what's your take on it and what should I do? I have no idea which one, or multiple...
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    Only one chicken left after attack--how to help introduce a companion chicken?

    Hi. Chicken tragedy on Saturday--a fox got 8 of our 9 pullets while they were grazing in a (what I thought was a) protected safe space when I had to step away for 5 minutes to settle a kid squabble. I was very wrong. And we were devastated. We thought she (pretty sure it was a mama fox) had...
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    Here we go!

    Hello from Northern VA here. In a bit of a corona-based want to be more self-sufficient after not finding eggs at the grocery store for a few weeks, my husband decided we should get chickens and ordered some. His family had chickens when he was growing up, we eat a lot of eggs, and we finally...
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