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    Dark Combed Hen?

    This is Elizabeth, she was in the bin labeled Blue English Orpington. But clearly that's not her breed. She's roughly 22 weeks old. I have no idea what she is, but it looks like she's got a really dark colored comb and almost black beak. I love her dark chocolate brown color and almost chipmunk...
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    Rough spots on neck

    We have a chick with feathers kind of fluffed up around her neck. I check it and it seems almost like swollen rough spots where some feathers are coming out. She seems fine though. She's very friendly and it doesn't seem to both her. Eats, drinks, and mostly stays with the flock. Sometimes she's...
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    Normal behavior? Hen hiding from Rooster

    We have 2 hens about 3 years old. We recently received a rooster from a friend, about 2 months ago. At first the hens really picked on the roo. Wouldn't let him eat, roost with them, etc. One hen was way more dominant out of the two. Now the roo has gotten more comfortable. He crows and struts...
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    Coop Idea

    I am thinking about buying a pre-made shed and converting to a new coop. Ideally I am looking for a shed big enough to be the coop, and store supplies. The run will be a separate idea. I came across this shed and was wondering what others thought about the potential. I have added screenshots...
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    Rural King chicks

    We got chicks from Rural King and I don't know if they were labeled correctly. Last time we got chicks from RK 3 were not as listed lol. We don't really care what they are, we are just curious. I have the listed names on the photos. They are also roughly 3-4 weeks old
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    Egg Carton Storage?

    How is everyone storing their egg cartons?? We just have ours stacked on top of the fridge and cabinets but I would like something better
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    Integrating new chicks

    We have 2 older hens and got 6 new chicks recently. Currently they are in our bathtub "brooder". We don't have a segregated area in our coop yet, but plan on it later on. I've seen where people will use a pop up play pen as an outside brooder. I have this one, it will fit in the coop no...
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    All chicks with impacted crop?

    We got six chicks roughly a week- 2 weeks old. I noticed all of them have a very large, firm crop. In their brooder is only, medicated feed, bedding, waterer, brooder plate. Should we be worried about the crops? They all also act normally and keep eating
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    Egg Bound Death?

    A hen was unfortunately found dead this afternoon. She was perfectly fine yesterday, let us pick her up and everything. Then today while out in the run I found her dead. We looked her over, no injuries, no mites, her feathers fairly clean. But it looks like she was in the middle of a poop...
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    Bear Attack

    Unfortunately we had a bear brake into our coop last night. He got 2 of our 6 hens. He's already tried to come back tonight, but this time we were able to scare it away. I've always heard once a bear knows where your chickens are it'll keep coming back until it gets them all. What can we do to...
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    Egg laying slowing down after switching to nipple waterers

    We've had the same hens for about a year now, and we've always used the classic gravity waterer. It was always so dirty, so we have recently switched over our watering system to horizontal nipples fed by a rain barrel. The girls seem hesitant but they do use it. I've taken the time to show them...
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    Clear liquid poop

    My chicken is acting fine besides occasionally fighting over nesting boxing, screaming at each other while they are trying to lay an egg. But otherwise she's eating, drinking, active as usual. But today I noticed she took an extremely watery poo. Like it was just a large amount of clear liquid...
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    Broody hen, but vent pulsing?

    I have a broody hen I believe, seems to of happened these past few days. Shes got a bare chest, fluffs up her feathers when others are around, constantly clucks, and stays in the nesting box. But I also noticed what seems like her vent pulsing when she's clucking about. Is that normal or is she...
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    Fighting over nesting boxes

    We always hear a couple hens squawking at each other over the nesting boxes but today I found the two in the same nest at the same time! Lol they were both sitting and looked like they were trying to lay when I first noticed them but when I went into the coop the silver girl stood up. Notice the...
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    Only one egg?

    We got our 6 hens last summer, so they are around 10 months old. So far it seems like at least 3 of the 6 were mislabeled and I have different hens then I thought. Thats okay, this is our first flock, we are just happy to have them. We get a variety of egg colors, light tan, speckled, green, and...
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    Are these from the same bird?

    I have an olive egger and I suspect some kind of legbar hen. Our olive egger has been consistently laying. But once we got this pale blue egg, only one time. Now we've got this other egg that looks slightly like the olive eggers but its kinda blue. So my question is are these two eggs from the...
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    Speckles part of bloom?

    I only have 6 hens and 3 of them lay speckled eggs. They are all different breeds but when I wash the eggs the speckles just wipe right off. Is that normal? I just assumed the speckles were apart of the egg shell not the bloom. Or am I washing eggs too roughly? I use a soft rag, warm water, and...
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    Mislabeled Sapphire Gem?

    We got this bird about 10 months ago from RK and she was sold as a Sapphire Gem but today I believe we got a blue egg from her. I'm not 100% but we only have 6 hens and I think I can tell who is laying what. I already had one bird that was mislabeled that this group helped me correctly identify...
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    Muddy Run - pine pellets

    During the summer and spring I was able to put some dye-free mulch in our chicken run but now that its winter the run has been so muddy with all the rain and snow. I've heard of people putting pine pellets, that absorb some of the moisture, into their runs and seeing success with that. But has...
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    Frostbite

    One of our girls has gotten some mild frostbite on the tips of her comb in this crazy weather. They are currently just white, but what can we do to help her? Should we just wait it out since its now gradually getting warmer? She's the only one with a long comb.
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