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    Head removed, what am I looking at?

    Hey all, we’ve always only dealt with hawks and never had any ground predators. I’m looking for clues as to what kind of predator we are dealing with. Lo and behold, this morning my one coop-sleeping chicken was pulled apart in the coop. The other chickens (all of whom sleep outside on a...
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    Satins, best shot at sex?

    We are about to buy two few-month-old birds - these are the pictures we have. Looking for pullets but I know these silkie types can be tricky, and you all were great at realizing the last two were cockerels!! Thanks for any thoughts!
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    Roo/hen? Satin chicks 3-4 months

    Cross posting because I just realized I posted in the wrong forum! What do you think about these two? Sage - flat black comb. Flower - pinky red comb. I especially will appreciate what characteristics led to your conclusion! They are from a Cochin and splash silkie. 3-4 months (13-16 weeks old...
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    Bird sex?

    Would love help sexing these two birds that we got at 2-3 months old. Now they’re 3-4 months. I was told they’re satins, born from a splash silkie dad and Cochin mom. Bird with flat comb we are quite sure is a hen but the other one is really stumping us! Seems to have rooster qualities, but I...
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    Our favorite hen just not herself after white poop

    My spouse put out a bird feeder one day about a week and a half ago and our flock got under it and ate all the (many) dropped seeds. One of them (our 3 year old ISS brown) developed white liquify poops a few days later. She is now not as energetic, not eating as readily and refuses worms (though...
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    Mystery leg injury on our favorite chicken :(

    Hi all, I can’t understand how to help our little Fluffy, who is a silkie about age 1.5yr. This morning as we left for a weekend trip I noticed she was limping severely. She has been broody so I’ve only seen her out of the box maybe once in the last week and am not sure when it happened...
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    Head shaking with toddler voice

    I have a young toddler who, accordingly, has a pitchy toddler voice. Whenever she speaks within earshot of any of our chickens, they shake their heads rapidly, as if uncomfortable. It’s not just loudness, as they do it when she’s at a fair distance. Anyone else notice anything like that? I’m...
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    Helping our last chicken through the cold next month and thru new bird introductions?

    An unexpected recent predator attack has left us with one chicken. The remaining chicken has always been the most tense in temperament... pulls her own feathers out, real stiff if we pick her up. I am worried that with the recent maybe traumatic loss of her last flock mate, and incoming cold...
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    What’s the latest in Chevy Chase MD?

    I was reading earlier today about chicken laws in Chevy Chase MD and I found a whole lot of drama from 2017 about chicken confiscation and law suits!! But, I can’t find anything more recent to say how the whole situation panned out...
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    Ongoing gleet, low weight, recurrent blue comb tips but otherwise happy chicken

    For a while now we have one ISA brown chicken that is always seeming to be ailing. She has periods of laying large pale eggs occasionally double yolked, then eggs revert to normal for a week or two. She’s long had gleet now (2 months pretty persistently), lost a lot of weight when this first...
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    Gleet, prolapse, and weight loss: to cull or not to cull?

    Hi all. I have been on travel seven hours away from home this past week and need to be away a further two weeks. While we are away, a friend has been caring for our chickens. Unfortunately just after we left, One of our ladies seems to have developed vent gleet with bleeding, followed by a...
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    Dripping blood from rear and acting lethargic, no clear cause

    Hi all! We are new chicken owners of 3 ISA browns that lay nearly daily in the morning. They are about 15 months old, and we got them 2 months ago. Today we found only one egg in the morning and in the late afternoon, we found one bird squatting and struggling with blood and some possibly other...
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