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    Moving Chicks & Mom into Coop

    Hi! Our chicks (2) are now 4 weeks old and currently have 6 hens and one rooster. We do not free range due to predators but we have a large enclosed run. This is our 2nd round of chicks and I honestly can’t remember what we did last time LOL. We are planning on moving them in at 5 weeks old so...
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    4 week old chicks 🐤

    Hi! I am curious to get some input on what gender these chicks are? Also some key indicators to look for to know what makes the difference between a hen and rooster this young! Thank you!
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    Baby Chicks 🐤

    These two chicks are about a week and a half old…any idea on gender or when you start to know?
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    HELP!!! Hen breathing hard, not roosting, something internal?

    Hi everyone, Our chicken named Peppers is not roosting and is sitting on the floor breathing very hard. She seemed perfectly fine a few hours ago before they went to bed. She is apart of our second group of chickens that were hatched from our flock about 2 years ago. We have 6 hens and one...
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    one of hen’s eyes closed

    my chicken has been brooding and recently the chicks have hatched, last night we went out there and she had her first chick but her right eye was closed. she had a feather around her eye so i tried to gently take it off but it was stuck on her eye. any help?!? i know the pictures not the best...
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    who’s egg is this??

    hello! i collected our eggs this afternoon and saw one that is awful white but we don’t have white egg layers...i’m curious whose egg it is? here’s our chickens: cinnamon queen black australorp welsummer red jungle fowl barnevender buff orphington i’m assuming is our buff orphington...
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    bald spot on my chickens head?! not molting

    hi guys, I went out to see my chickens today and noticed that one of my chickens has a bald spot on her head. She is not molting but I do have one chicken who has been molting these last two weeks. She is the lead chicken which makes me concerned that she might be pecking her in order for her to...
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    all of my chickens in the coop!!

    hi!! recently my chickens have been in the coop in the middle of the day! i’m from washington so right now it starts to get dark at around 4:30 but i went to go see my chickens last week at around one and they were all inside of the coop just standing there, not on the roost or anything. Today I...
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    deterring pecking

    Is there anything I can put on my chicken that is getting pecked that? We’ve gone through the isolation and swapping the two chickens and just want to be extra sure that we’ve done everything to prevent pecking! We have added a hanging cabbage, treat toy, pecking blocks, mealworms, throughout...
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    chicken bully’s and putting chickens back together

    hello ! i have 7 chickens, all different breeds, all grown up together and are now almost a year old. my lavender americana has gotten pecked at badly 3 times for the time we’ve had them. she’s only been pecked at by my cinnamon queen and she is the “leader” of the flock. the first time she...
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    Picked on chicken

    hello ! i have 7 chickens, all different breeds, all grown up together and are now almost a year old. my lavender americana has gotten pecked at badly 3 times for the time we’ve had them. she’s only been pecked at by my cinnamon queen and she is the “leader” of the flock. the first time she...
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    chicken sleeping in nesting box

    i went down to check on my chickens at 6:00pm PST and saw that one of my chickens is in the nesting box, The others are on the roost and one was still in the run. I went down there again at 7 PM and she is still in there, sleeping. This is the first time I’ve seen her do this. We don’t have a...
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    broken egg on coop floor!!

    i have 7 chickens all raised together about 8 months old. my lavender americana starting laying eggs 2 weeks ago and we’ve had about 5 eggs from her! she had to be separated for a week because she was injured, but still in sight of the rest of the flock. she laid her first egg when she was alone...
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    Chicken not laying egg ☹️

    Hi, last weekend I had to separate an injured chicken from the rest of the flock and put her in an outdoor dog kennel alongside the outside of the run. she is a lavender americana and hasn’t laid an egg yet, all the chickens are seven months old. she laid two eggs, two days in a row while she...
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    Chicken Bully

    hi! I have a flock of seven chickens that have been together since birth, yesterday one chicken kept on bullying the other and pecking at her until she became wounded. we have separated the injured one but all the chickens can still see each other (she is in a covered dog kennel beside the...
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    Isolating hurt chicken and need help!

    hi! Yesterday I went down to check on my chickens and noticed that one chicken had blood on her wing about the size of a golf ball! i bought blue cote (the purple spray) and sprayed it on her, but later at around 6:30, one of my chickens (“the lead chicken”) was bullying her pecking at her wound...
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