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    A Mourning Post

    “It’s inevitable when you buy the pet. You’re supposed to know it in the pet shop. It’s going to end badly. You are purchasing a small tragedy,” – George Carlin. Trixie died today. When my family lived in New Orleans, we had four hens, raised from week-old chicks, who survived hurricanes...
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    Blind in one eye? Ocular Marek's? Can chickens even get glaucoma?

    Hello Chicken Brain Trust, The short version of this post is that Maeve Wiley, 4-year-old New Hampshire Red, appears to have glaucoma or cataracts in one eye. (Who knew that was even a thing??) My biggest fear is that she has ocular Marek's and that I might need to cull her. Based on pictures...
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    What's your favorite structure to convert-to-coop?

    Hello chickenfriends, My little family is moving in the not-too-distant future from New Orleans to Durham, NC. Ultimately we decided that our four hens are going to stay here with friends for a well-deserved retirement in the Big Easy. Once we're settled in our new digs, one of the first orders...
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    Featherbrains during a heat wave

    Y'all. Over the past couple years of keeping chickens, I have come to have a much higher degree of respect for their intelligence. Their complex relationships and ability to survive are inspiring. BUT Y'ALL. These is a massive heat wave sitting on top of New Orleans right now, and these biddies...
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    moving in a year...already missing my chickies

    Hello chicken friends, The wheels are in motion for my little family to move from New Orleans to either Durham or Greensboro, NC, next summer. It's still a long way away (two brutal semesters of nursing school remain before I can actually leave,) but I'm already thinking a lot about what to do...
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    Broody hen gone broodier in broody jail! Oy.

    Hello chickenfriends, I have a small flock of 4 sweet ladies. They're all just shy of 18 months old. One is a buff rock, Zippy, who has gone broody a couple of times in the past. I've been able to break her pretty quickly by keeping her in the coop, which worked out just fine because my hens...
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    Comb coming off? Oil slick on the head?

    Help, please! I have 4 hens, all a little over a year old. (No roosters.) They free-range in my medium-sized backyard during the day, and sleep in a secure coop at night. We had a spate of fowl pox in December, but only one of them seemed to have a really hard time with it. Ladybird had a couple...
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    Dry fowl pox turning into weird molting and pale combs? Oh gosh...

    Hello chickenfriends, My little flock of 4 had a brief spell of dry fowl pox. All 4 of them got it within a few days of each other, mostly just a couple of white then black spots on their combs, wattles, or ears. We did a major coop and yard clean-up, scoured the coop floor, changed out all the...
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    Recommendations for dry fowl pox?

    Hello fellow chickenmates, I have a flock of 4 hens, born in April. They are lovely, hilarious weirdos, and I'm fairly sure they have all got dry fowl pox. Of course I thought it was just little marks from pecking injuries at first (Zippy's enthusiasm for treats is unparalleled. Even though...
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    Should I move a free-range hen while she's laying?

    Hallo chickenfriends, I'm seeking some advice! I have a wee flock of 4 young hens that free-range in the backyard during the daytime. Around dusk, I put them in the coop and they stay there til the next morning. They have a sweet nesting box in the coop, but they really only go into the coop to...
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    Need help identifying the breeds of my chooks

    Hello chicken friends! I have 4 lovely ladies that I got this March from our local feed store. They're usually really fantastic, but their "chicken guy" was not in that day, and I got the impression that the person who sold me the chicks was not really sure what she was talking about. I decided...
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    Hallo new chicken friends!

    Hello new friends, My spouse and I got our first ever flock of chickens as a quarantine project, and I am IN LOVE! They are so fun to watch. We got 4 chicks from our local feed store. A staff person did tell us the breeds (1 Black Austerlorp, 1 New Hampshire Red, 2 Ameraucanas,) but I'm not...
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