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    Early signs of fowl pox?

    The first photo is from September 22, a small bump or two by the beginning of his beak near his nose. The second is from today (November 11) I know it is a slow spreading virus but almost two months seems much longer than I’ve been reading about, at least as far as the initial nodules...
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    Tube shaped egg

    My 2.5 year old specked sussex hen has laid “fairy/fart eggs” maybe twice a year so when it happens I don’t think too much about it. A couple weeks ago she laid one and and then two days ago she laid a serama sized egg but larger than her usual “fairy/fart eggs” which I thought was odd but the...
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    4+ week serama chicks

    i have 6 serama chicks that hatched october 13th so they’re about 4.5 weeks old. i’m fairly certain about half of them but the other half i’m not quite sure. i’ll label them 1-6 for clarity. thank you for your time and input!! 1) male 2) male 3) thinking female based on demeanor but the...
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    SOS chick hatched <30 mins ago, intestines or unabsorbed yolk hanging out???

    hatched in an incubator within the hour but also have a broody hen simultaneously hatched a chick this morning she happily took this one while i figure out what to do. is this intestine and needs to be pushed back in gently or just unabsorbed yolk?? what do i do?? tyia
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    sneezing chicken, treated with antibiotics, now patches in mouth

    hi miss olivia here was sneezing and open mouth breathing so she got a round of antibiotics which helped, still sneezing a bit, but her balance is off now and she’s still kinda open mouth breathing and has these sores in her mouth. i appreciate your time and suggestions. thank you!
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    Which of my two roos is the father of this chick?

    There is probably WAY too much background info here but anyway, maybe it is useful, maybe not. Cute chicken pics either way. I know that sammie is for sure the hen, it hatched from her egg. sammie is a leghorn x RSL (specifically a Delaware x RIR). she's about 16 months now and molting, her...
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    what type of comb is this?

    he’s 18 months old and from a “mystery egg” since he was a cockerel it seemed like/ people said it was a cushion comb but now i’m not really sure when i compare pictures online. he came from a green egg and that’s all i know so assuming there’s a pea comb gene somewhere. (if he looks sad in...
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    CA White and Asian Black cockerels?

    i got these from TSC, from hoovers i believe. straight runs labeled as CA white and Asian Black. they’re huge so i’m thinking boys but i really can’t tell. a few days shy of 8 weeks. this picture is from more than a week ago but to show how massive the black ones feet are! even bigger than...
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    What type of comb does my rooster have?

    i hatched him from a green mystery egg i ordered and he’s now over a year old. originally it was difficult to figure out his sex because we all were expecting a pea comb but then someone mentioned he had a cushion comb and that’s why but now i’m still having a hard time confirming his comb...
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    green and red (blood or intentional shed?) droppings from 10 month old male silkie

    hello this morning as i was cleaning my chickens’ droppings i noticed a funky pile where my silkie roo slept last night. i took him inside for observation while i post this and had two more yes he was kind enough to aim directly into the sink i haven’t gotten him to eat yet i’m not sure if...
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    chicken breathing like she’s purring

    this is a leghorn mix who looks like a chimney sweep because of vaseline i put on her comb when we had some sub zero temps over the weekend. i don’t know if it’s the weather or some other respiratory issue. she sneezed a couple times this morning which is why i grabbed her for a health check and...
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    Redness on rooster's ankles

    Hello and thank you in advance for reading and or replying! This is my 8 month old rooster his ankles (I believe that's the ankles?) are red. I checked for mites and didn't see anything. His vent did have red bumps where some of the feather follicles were but no feather in it. I couldn't get a...
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    young rooster keeps “raking” and making his spurs bleed

    i hatched george at the beginning of the year. he was the only one to hatch successfully and then in february i was able to finally find a pullet his age. they were extremely bonded. i’ve since raised and integrated a dozen more pullets into the flock but my first pullet died a bit over a month...
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    egg bound hen with a soft shell or no shell

    sophie is almost 5.5 months and started laying about 6 weeks ago. she’s had a few soft shelled eggs come out in the evening after laying earlier that day. she has layer feed (although she steals from the 9 week old chicks grower feed) and has access to oyster shells. this week she’s had a lot of...
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    just started laying 2 days ago. yolk in poop, lethargic, occasionally spitting up water(?), crop looks weirdly full

    hi i have a 19 week old leghorn x RSL who just started laying 2 days ago. she laid an egg yesterday as well and not today. i just came to check on them before bed and she’s looking really lethargic, more than just normal pre-bedtime energy. i then saw a poop that looked almost like egg...
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    intestinal shed or cocci?

    hi all! i have some 3.5 week old chicks and tuesday i found this i only saw this one abnormal dropping so i just kept an eye out but everyone was active and eating/drinking well. 1 of the 5 is a bit smaller than the rest and hasn’t featured out as much but since they’re EEs i wasn’t sure if...
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    How to classify the shank color, primary, secondary colors of my roo?

    Hello! Warning: genetics questions! I've got a mystery chicken and have been obsessing over chicken genetics trying to figure out what breeds my boy may be. He's got a cushion comb and came from a green egg so the mother must have had the pea comb gene and roo probably had a rose comb. That's...
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    14 week cockerel mating with stuffed animal??

    well the title sums it up but anyway i have a 14 week EE who i hatched (no other eggs were successful) so i got him a stuffed dinosaur to cuddle with in the brooder. it was hard to find chicks in december/january but in february i happened to find Sophie, a RSL x leghorn, who is the same age as...
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    open mouth gasping / trying to swallow???

    hi, he’s about 12 weeks old and the last few minutes he began to do this (in the video) about once or twice a minute he’s opening his mouth and extending his neck like this he’s preening himself just fine now but his crop doesn’t feel full so i’m not sure if he’s eaten today or if something is...
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    Delaware (edit: jk we don't know) x White Leghorn - an intriguing pullet

    Hello! I have a lovely 12ish week old pullet, Sophie, that I got about 6 weeks ago. She is a Delaware x White Leghorn from a gal who wanted to see what that cross would be like. Sophie has 3 brothers from the same mom and dad and I recently was talking to the girl I got her from and she's...
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