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    Strange Egg

    Anybody have any idea what this is? I went to check eggs tonight and found it in the nesting box. My chickens haven’t laid much in quite some time due to an over crowding issue. I finally have that fixed. Never seen anything like this in my couple years of chicken raising. Thanks
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    Cornish Cross Dying

    Looking to see if anyone can help me figure out what’s happening with my most recent batch of Cornish cross. We’ve been raising meat birds for the last couple years. This fall, I ordered a batch of 40 and they came the first week of October. I raised these differently than I have in the past. I...
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    LEM Chicken Plucker

    Anyone tried LEM brand plucker? I’ve been searching for one to get and like everything else I have from this brand. Was just curious if there is any kind of reliable reviews on the plucker
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    Dominique pullets or cockerels?

    I got 5 straight run Dominiques from Cackle hatchery a few weeks back. I assume the ones with the bigger, redder combs are the males, right? Or am I completely off base?
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    Eggs Safe?

    So the backstory. We have 14 chickens (2 cockerels, 1 pullet, and 11 hens). We have had a broody hen for the past couple weeks (hatched some chicks today.) she has been laying in one of two nesting boxes the whole time. Before she went broody we were getting 7-9 eggs a day out of these. Today...
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    First Broody Hen and New Chicks

    I have a hen that started off broody yesterday. Hasnt been out of the nesting box since yesterday afternoon. I also have some new chicks on order set to come in next week. Is there a process for trying to get her to raise these chicks or is it not worth it? I could see the advantages being not...
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    Molting?

    One of my new chickens started losing feathers about a week ago. She lost them above her tail, down the sides a little, and some on her neck. Is this molt? Or something else? I came back out this afternoon and saw another one with some feathers missing on her head. I did cull a rooster and a...
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    Brooder Box

    I recently repurposed a shop table to be a brooder box. I lifted it off the ground and put it on wheels to be able to easily be moved around. I’ve still got to build a top, which will likely be a frame with chicken wire. I also plan to run another 2x4 across the top so I can hang a...
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    Rhode Island Red

    Can anyone tell me if my RIR is a puppet or cockerel? Or is it too early?
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    New coop and run

    Finally got the news coop and run done temporarily. To keep the build as cheap as possible I’m scrounging for materials and have a line on some potential free fencing I hope to fully enclose it eventually, but it’s going to stay like this until that pans out or doesnt. The run is roughly 8.5x32...
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    Chicken slowly gasping

    My mom sent me a video today of her Rhode Island Red that appears to be slowly gasping. She said she’s been laying in the same spot since about 8:30 this morning doing this and was very lethargic yesterday as well. She said she’s been drinking water, but just not acting right. She has had two...
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    Heat lamp necessity

    I am planning to order my first chicks in the next week or so. Is a heat lamp necessary this time of year in middle Georgia? The temps when they come in will most likely be in the 80s-90s during the day and high 60-70s at night. Thanks!
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    Cockerels?

    Well I finally got my run semi finished (enough to keep the chickens contained) so I had enough light to take some pictures. The previous owner hatched some chicks between his Rhode Island Red rooster and his hens (black maran and those island reds). I suspect that the bird in the first picture...
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    Choosing rooster

    How do you choose what breed of rooster in your flock? First off, Im new to chickens and recently acquired a flock of about 15 chickens ranging from 4 months to a year. They are mostly rhode island red and black australorp with a few mixes of the two thrown in there. There is a those island red...
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    Inherited Flock

    So I inherited a flock of chickens today. 13 hens and a rooster if I counted correctly. They are currently the only chickens I have and was just curious if you do anything special when getting chickens from someone else. They have been fed medicated chick feed. Some are laying, and others are...
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    Buff Orpington not able to walk

    I have a buff Orpington who seems to have some sort of leg injury. She can’t walk or put any pressure on her left leg. I’m not sure if she has fallen or flown and injured herself that way. I couldn’t feel anything wrong with her feet/bottom portion of her leg. Any home remedies to get her leg...
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    Teaching chickens to go in run

    First time chicken keeper. Do you have to teach your chickens to go out to their run? Yesterday was the first day I gave my 5 week old chickens the ability to get to their run. They waited until about 30 minutes before dark to go out and then didn’t want to get back in the coop. Today they had...
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    First Coop Build

    Hello all, new to the forum and new to chickens. Actually don’t live in a place where I can have chickens so talked my mom into letting me keep some at her house. We live in central Georgia. I’ve spent the last month or two working on getting the coop built here and there when I had time. I...
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