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    Posting on behalf of a friend not on BYC— bumblefoot/scaly leg mites

    Hello fellow chickenfolk! I’m writing on behalf of a friend who asked me for advice re:home treating bumblefoot. I basically regurgitated all the things I remember reading here and in the Chicken Health Handbook re: isolating in a crate, soaking in Epsom salts, trying to express the plug out...
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    Going through the motions of laying, but no egg?

    I'm hoping this is just a blip and not going to be a trend and not a harbinger of eggbinding to come, BUT... One of my pullets (an Austra White between 36 and 37 weeks old) just this morning went through the motions of laying, parked in the box for a while and then when I saw that she'd come out...
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    Hooray!

    A calcified protein globe fell out of her butt for the first time today! Yaaaay!
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    My nemesis, Old Man’s Beard clematis, Clematis vitalba

    Not sure if it’s better to put this here vs. the coop/run design section. Also not sure whether this is an appeal for advice vs. a rant (maybe a little of column A and a little of column B?). There is a massive, ancient Old Man’s Beard clematis vine that’s rooted on an unoccupied adjacent...
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    Bok-o-lantern

    Happy Halloween!
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    (Worsening) chicken agoraphobia

    My ~27 week old pullets have been outside in their coop/enclosed run area since early July. They had a happy, normal chicken-summer scratching around and completely strip mining their little enclosed run. In the past couple weeks they have become increasingly prone to getting spooked and...
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    Bruised leg scales? Something else?

    First off, I apologize for the garbage quality of this photo, I'll try and get a better one later when my husband gets home and can give me a hand with holding the little lady. I noticed Thursday morning when I went in to tend to everyone that one of my chickens (my most accident prone one, of...
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    Bruised leg scales? Something else?

    First off, I apologize for the garbage quality of this photo, I'll try and get a better one later when my husband gets home and can give me a hand with holding the little lady. I noticed Thursday morning when I went in to tend to everyone that one of my chickens (my most accident prone one, of...
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    Anxiety dreams about your chickens?

    I'm assuming I can't be the only one who's had this experience, but I had an anxiety dream last night about my little flock o' four. It involved being at a house that was sort of a combination of where I live now and the place I grew up in. We were hosting a summertime backyard party of some...
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    Chickens coming online in their relative pecking order positions

    I’m curious if this is typical of other folks’ experiences raising chickens but so far my chickens all got to point of lay in the same order as their hierarchy. Queen Xenomorph (Queenie) came online August 29th and as her name implies she is the reigning boss-chicken. My second bird (Charisma...
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    Poisonous smoke refugee lays her first egg!

    TFW your chickens are poisonous smoke refugees in the basement bathroom and one of them lays her first ever egg in the cubbyhole adjacent to the shower.
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    Just had to share

    I'm just proud of my wacky little crazyface lady. This is her third egg. She made an enormous fuss all afternoon before successfully laying this.
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    TL;DR: Yesterday was not a good day. (things are handled, but just wanted to share)

    The short of it is one of my 13 week old pullets apparently broke her right wing in two places. I went in to do my morning chicken-check(in) and took one look at little Goga and something was very obviously not right. She was standing weirdly off by herself, her wings were hanging kind of...
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    Project day dreams

    I’m not sure if this is the correct sub category for this but... I'm curious about what completely implausible projects people would do if money/time/physics or laws of nature/COVID/whatever weren't limitations. Here's one of mine. Our front yard is a sharp slope to the sidewalk with a stone...
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    I strongly suspect that the two "Bielefelders" we bought are actually speckled sussex

    ...which is fine, really, as from what I've read they have pretty similar breed characteristics as far as egg laying numbers and personality are concerned. And I absolutely love these birds to pieces so it really doesn't matter one way or another, merely an academic point more than anything...
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    A picture worth a thousand words

    What happened to my phone, you ask?
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