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    South Buckinghamshire UK - 1 rooster + 10 hens need of rehoming

    Sadly, the time has come to make serious decisions about letting our chickens go. Change in work commitments force my hand as I will not be able to take care of them... Have been stalling for a couple of months, but need to get it done. They currently live in a custom-built coop which is not...
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    Chickens sinus inflating/deflating when eyes closed. Normal?

    Never seen this before as I don't watch my chickens sleep...but broody hen on camera, and I see this. And strangely enough only when her eyes are closed. Infection or normal? She has never shown any problems or symptoms I can think of.
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    Should I take the hatched chick from the broody hen? Staggered hatch

    Question at the bottom if you want to skip to it. 22 days ago one of my youngest hens decided to go broody and sit on 4 eggs. For some reason, I didn't think she'd stick to it as she was just 8 months old. I was away for work so the wife and kids managed the coop duties for 5 days but upon my...
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    9 week chick - what do you think breed/sex?

    Meet Jefferson. The most vocal chick in the flock when it comes to conversation, constantly having something to say while he/she moves around ever so gracefully. Also the most confusing chick because I can't for the life of me figure out if it's a cockerel or a pullet. Until a week ago I was...
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    8 week chick lethargic, pale, bloody poop ++ PIC WARNING ++

    Is there anything else I can give to help this chick pull through? ok so today my 8 week old light sussex mix is the one that is lethargic, weak and sleepy 😟 - Started off with watery puddle stools mixed with something bright yellow but later in the afternoon it's blood plus something that...
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    Sneezing/Coughing and yellow poop - Brahma

    Slightly confusing situation and one I can't find a similar case to hence why I'm finally posting this. Please bear with me and hopefully, I can do a good job explaining. The problem is with my Brahma roo (pictured) but there is a secondary issue of yellow poop which is the case for some of...
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    What breed, gender and age??

    I picked these little beauties up few days ago as I have way too many cockerels in the flock (possibly 5 out of 9) and need to swap out. This purchase was in the hope that the kids would accept the replacements...how that goes, who knows. Myself and the kids fell for these three the moment we...
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    Araucana 3 to 4 weeks old lethargic and almost always sleeping - Help Pls

    Sorry, posted this in the wrong section so moving it to here. Two days ago I acquired three Araucana chicks from a local place. They are supposed to be 4 weeks old but I'm not so sure about that as they are almost a third the size of my 6 week old chicks (light sussex, leghorn etc). Is this...
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    Araucana chick extremely lethargic and almost always sleeping

    Sorry, have moved this to where I should have posted it to begin with.
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    5 week to 6 week olds breed leghorn? sex?

    From what little I can find, these guys look like leghorns but the eggs they hatched from were not your typical large white leghorn eggs. The eggs were light brown and medium-sized. Hence why I'm confused about which breed they are, and no clue about sex either. Both of them are about 5 days...
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    4.5 week old chick making a constant racket/chirping loudly

    I have 9 chicks and all of them are doing well, from what I can tell. On a routine of changing hemp bedding every second day (sometimes third if I'm busy) and changing water, topping up feed every day. They live in my office and have had the heatlamp off for almost a week now. However, for...
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    4 week Gold Partridge Brahmas

    First time with chickens/chicks and I have two of these amazing characters within our flock of nine. Both are about 4 to 4.5 weeks I believe but no idea what gender. First up is this one which I can't tell but I'm leaning towards cockerel. Had to hold it otherwise he/she just wants to jump...
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    I'm on day 14 and worried/losing eggs

    First time hatching. On day seven I had to remove 2 out of the 14 eggs as they had rings. The rest were all good with clear veins with lively embryos (on the most part) and the air cell was either clearly visible or you could just make it out. Day 14, today, and I've had to remove 6 eggs 😟...
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    New to Incubation - Temperature management help needed

    This is the first time I have incubated anything. Picked up some eggs locally yesterday and left them (sat pointy side down) and the incubator ("cheap" chinese version for 16 eggs) to run for 24 hours before adding the eggs. Without the eggs the temperature held perfectly fine and using two...
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    Chicken Swing Set Castle Coop

    That moment when you know exactly (or roughly) what you're building, but then something you read somewhere you can't now recall, stops you from continuing? yeh that's me since last 24 hours. Somewhere, I remember reading that internal coop height was relevant in some way or other, where it had...
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    Hello from Bucks, UK

    Completely new to world of chickens but have been mulling over the idea for about a year now, with plenty of research to go with it (much of it from BYC). We have a sweet spot in the garden which was begging for a coop or a swing set, and this lockdown has given us plenty of time to finalise on...
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