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    Gen 2 Babies

    Hey all! It's been a while (insert guitar chord here) and having a flock of hens has been amazing. The problem has been el doggo. Y'see I got a doggo in December. I love him very much. He's a German Shepherd/Husky mix and is about 10 mos old. The problem: he has a significant prey drive. I'm...
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    Damaged Feathers

    Hey there, I have another potential problem? I think this is caused by stress or molting but I also want to make sure I'm not missing anything. 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) I have Link, who is about 18 months old at...
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    Cracked Beak

    Well, darn it. My red sexlink did something to her beak. 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) 1 year old red sexlink. I think this just happened. I was outside giving treats and she suddenly ran off. Since she's the Boss...
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    Some idea/No experience but sick hen

    Okay So. I have this red sexlink. She turned 1 year last month and has been acting pretty normal as of 4/18 and by normal, I mean she is digging, scratching, exploring, trying to get into new spots. Part of this involved digging under our deck last week. Part of it's involved getting into the...
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    Weird Egg with sunburst pattern

    These three eggs are from the same hen. The top one is from three days ago, the middle from yesterday, and then the weird one is from today. I think my hen is sick or has something going on? She's a 1-year old sexlink and I noticed patchy spots on her rump and diarrhea. At first I thought she...
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    Need Help figuring out what's wrong

    Hey hey, So today I got 2/4 eggs from my hens which I wouldn't have thought anything of except I lost a hen recently. I think at least one of my girls is sick. Behavior has been mostly normal but while I was scooting around cleaning up outside I noticed her bottom was dirty so I took her in to...
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    Not So Many Eggs?

    Hi hi! I think I know the answer to this but I need a gut check from the more experienced community. I have three 9-month old hens, a black Australorp and two red sexlinks. Three weeks ago, the australorp went broody. She wouldn't leave the nesting box and kept taking all the eggs laid by the...
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    Rooster or hen?

    Y'ALL I think TSC gave me another cockerel disguised as a pullet. Look at that tail. That's a rooster tail, right??? Ay yi yi...
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    Tab's Flock

    I just realized that I've never actually started a thread just for documenting my silly little flock of babies. Backstory time: I'm an urban person who lives in the Bay Area of California. Luckily, the area I live in is still about 40%-60% agricultural so I'm allowed 1 hen per 1000 sq foot of...
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    Watery yellow poo? First-time chicken owner

    First time chicken owner here. I was cleaning up my deck when I noticed this poo. All three birds are behaving normally (eating, scratching, drinking) and did lay this morning but one did lay later than she normally does (by like an hour, so I wasn't worried). Looking the symptoms up online...
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    Egg-Laying & Chicken Biting

    So this is a 2 parter and they aren't totally related. On another note, the hens are now 21 weeks old. A couple weeks ago, Zelda and the other sexlink, Link started laying. My Australorp (Daine) has not. Link started laying in the nesting boxes but last week moved to a spot under my rosemary...
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    Egg song, food song, or just a yelling birb?

    Hey all, my trio is about 17-18 weeks old at this point, I have 2 red sexlinks and a blue australorp. All three have started vocalizing recently. Usually it's a pretty quiet coo or the occasional squawk. I haven't heard any traditional bawk-bawk-bawking but one of the hens has decided coos and...
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    Help planning new coop/run

    Hello there! Due to sad and unforeseen circumstances (my "hen" was a rooster all along and I miss him), I'm looking at getting another 2-3 pullets to add to my flock. The problem is that the coop I currently have is waaaay too small for more than 3-4 birds (see pic), so I need to figure out a...
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    Chicken breed???

    So I just learned I had a Speckled Sussex cockerel and not a sex-linked pullet like I thought. So now I'm wondering what breed my dear Daine might be? She's 15-16 weeks young. Picture below:
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    Crowing hen

    Hello! I have four hens that are about sixteen weeks old. They haven't started laying yet, sadly, but I do have one hen exhibiting unexpected behavior. This morning she crowed like a rooster four times! One of the deals I made with my neighbors when I decided to get chickens was that I wouldn't...
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    Hello from the San Francisco Bay Area!

    Hello! I am the happy (but somewhat perplexed) keeper of four hens I purchased from the local feed store in March 2021. I live in a fairly urban area and had been debating getting chickens for a long time, and when my work went 100% remote due to the pandemic I decided to bite the bullet and go...
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