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    Not-Well Hen Refusing All Food EXCEPT Scrambled Eggs (Help)

    My sweet Iris is not doing great. About a month ago, I went out super late (like 11pm) to fetch eggs and noticed her butt was covered in poop. I brought her in, cleaned her up, and started researching (she was ~5lbs that night). Poop looked like maybe it was cocci so I started Corid the next day...
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    Coop Goop

    Anyone know what these things are? We've had such strange weather - unusual heat, bone dry, to rain for days, and now a cooler snap. These were in several places on the hardware cloth and then on the flat wood surfaces. A Google lens search came up with a few posts on reddit with no answers. I...
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    Heat 2023

    Our weather has been absolutely erratic, but it's been in the mid-80s the last two days and my girls already seem to be struggling. It is normal for them to struggle with the first hot days/weeks? My Prairie bluebell seems to be absolutely miserable. They are all around 1 and we didn't move...
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    Heartbroken

    My Daisy Lou, our olive Egger, died in my arms tonight. She layed yesterday and was the first one out into their play yard today when I let them out midday. When I went down after work, she didn't come greet me with the others. She was standing with her beak a little open and would gingerly peck...
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    Project Run Forrest Run

    (aka project 🖕u hawks) When your sunroom looks like and smells like Lowe's (according to a certain resident 16 yr old 🤣), something big is afoot! We're *finally* adding an 8x12 outdoor palace for my girls after too many hawk close calls. It will be OMG-so-much-white-paint with black hardware...
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    Mystery Hen

    Does anyone know what our Lily might be? We bought her out of an Ameraucana bin at a local feed store but not sure that was right. Her comb and wattles look more like our cuckoo Maran. But we don't see any copper in her coloring. She's close but not laying yet (7 months old).
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    Hooray for eggs!

    It seems all our spring 🐥 are starting to lay. We knew our cuckoo Maran was close so I've been checking each day. I was a little later going out today (damn job) and so sad to find the first egg in the run. Not sure if it was stepped on or pecked and we no idea who laid it! But, someone actually...
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    Willow the House Chicken

    I have a singleton who is 3 months old and still in our "brooder" aka watermelon and cantaloupe boxes in my office. We're working on merging her with our other 5 girls but they are relentless at picking on her so it's slow slow. She won't leave my feat and will totally head back to the house...
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    Coyote Attack

    First the damn hawks, now this. We have had the neverending rains here in east TN. Rear neighbor came by Fri to let us know there was a coyote near our coop at 2:30pm in the rain. Sat, our next door neighbor stopped me to say a coyote was attacking the coop. He heard my girls going nuts, went to...
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    Coop Camera "Why"

    Curious to see what the group says about coop cams. Not questioning having them or not. We personally just bought 2 of the v2 outdoor wireless Wyze ones, installation pending. We have a well protected coop & run, an automatic door on order, lots of predators and are at odds over what the cams...
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    Rehoming Story

    A little warm fuzzy story to share...
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    Hawk Frustration

    I'm so frustrated. We knew there were hawks in our area (one hung out on our deck 4-5 years ago), but we hadn't seen the in our immediate area for a while. I finally convinced the DH to let me get chickens and WTF. Boom. They are back. I've tried timing letting the girls out when I don't see...
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    Scraps Bowl & Feeding Time

    (1) Favorite dish/container for feeding regular foods/kitchen scraps to a small flock (we have 6)? I've been using a glass pie dish set up on bricks to keep the ants at bay and my girls walk in and across it and knock it off. (2) Are there any benefits to specific feeding times? I usually take...
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    Thank heavens for HC!

    A neighbor's loose dog completely terrorized my girls today (er, hello? We have leash laws, idiot). Luckily, they were in their run and not free ranging or they would be dead. I don't leave them unattended (b/c hawks) but no way I could have gotten all 5 to safety. It was literally running and...
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    Little wins!

    It's night #3 for my girls in their coop. I went to dinner with friends and came home to find all my girls made it upstairs on their own AND I was able to get 2 of the 5 to stay on the roosting bars. Yay!! #happychickenmomma
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    Little wins!

    It's night #3 for my girls in their coop. I went to dinner with friends and came home to find all my girls made it upstairs on their own AND I was able to get 2 of the 5 to stay on the roosting bars. Yay!! #happychickenmomma
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    Any guesses on our oldest 2?

    Any ideas on our oldest 2? We bought them from a local farm store as Ameraucanas, which I know usually = EE, but they had some really good breeds. Neither has muffs or beards. Daisy is our sunbather and Lily is our flock matriarch. Lily is clearly older, maybe 4-5 weeks? And for good...
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    Small Order Chick Shipping

    We found out today that our black Australorp, Viola, is actually a Vinnie. And we can't have Roos in the city. We also have a Maran that we are worried has failure to thrive. She's our little runt. ❤️🐥❤️ Does anyone know of a breeder that will ship just 2 chicks? We've been lucky to get most of...
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    Yard spikes

    Has anyone used these for digging protection?
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    Hi from NETN

    Hi from Johnson City TN. I've wanted chickens for a very long time and a stay at an airB&B on a working farm finally convinced my husband. We have 6 chicks that range from 4 weeks to a few days old. Right now, they are all living in my office. :) We know we have a 2 Ameraucanas (a lavender and...
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