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    whining complaining yelling orps

    Unless we let our chickens out of their run and into the yard, the buff orpington complains loudly from dawn til dusk, and is risking the soup pot via the man of the house. The red star whines a bit too, but its a higher pitch moan and less of a yelling chicken noise. The easter eggers are...
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    Are Impacted Crop and Molting related?

    My friendliest buff hen seems to have a plugged up crop, and is having explosive BMs of mostly water. She's still quite perky, but obviously something is wrong. Im assuming impacted crop (it was bigger than normal and not going down) so Im following much advice I've gleaned on these forums -...
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    Eggs with color flaking off, and scratched?! what is going on?

    Today I got an egg that has the brown color literally flaking off, and looks as if its been scratched (toe? beak? who know what else?). The other two eggs laid today were fine. whole egg: detail of scratching: detail of brown flaking off: This reminded me that I saw something similar but...
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    Igloo style wind barrier / snowy run

    Its been getting cold and snowy, but the crazy BO's were still braving the below zero temps to sit outside in the wind. Red Stars said forget it, and stayed in the coop. Looks like one of the BO's got a touch of frostbite on her comb, so I decided to put up some wind barriers. Looking at...
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