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    The New Head Chicken Question

    Our sweet maddy-bird passed away today. it was heartbreaking for us, she was our head hen and the queen. Such a character and so fun to be around...... Onto my question, we have just a small flock. The next in line to be the leader had started working her way to head hen immediately....which is...
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    When/what to feed a chicken recovering from impacted crop

    Hi! I'm pretty sure my chicken is experiencing impacted crop. I was out of town and my neighbor feed her a lot of lettuce. She is not lethargic but didn't sleep on her roost bar two nights ago and not walking around playing nor eating. We brought her inside yesterday and she was regurgitating...
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    How to stop my chick from making a mess

    One of my chickens has gotten into this bad habit of tearing up and kicking out all of the nest box beddings from all 3 of the boxes. I'm wasting a lot of money replacing the bedding and it's also making the nest box uncomfortable for the other ladies. Any tricks on how to get her to stop? She's...
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    Question about temporary light in the coop

    During the cold spell we had the past few weeks, we added a heat lamp (very safely) to the coop. I know it's not the best idea but we had to because we were worried about one of our chickens after one very cold night - the next day she was still in a corner all day almost frozen (Live NC, not...
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    Help, I have mold growing in my coop

    We just went through major rain with Tropical Debby. My coop is made of wood walls, wood everything, but solid lament floors covered with hemp - tons of humidity here in NC. We have plenty of windows and ventilation. It's a full walk-in, about 5X10. It's green fuzzy mold, covers the walls and...
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    Lethargic and one eye not opening

    At first I thought maybe she was just acting strange because of the elipse, we are east coast, NC so no darkness really happened....but this started just before the peak of it but none of my other chickens are acting weird and she is just sitting on the ground, hard to keep her head up and one...
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    Spalding Fly Predators

    Has anyone tried releasing the fly predators by spalding? I'm curious to try this year, but worried they will become a nuisance...does anyone know if they hurt your garden? or do they come buzzing around people?
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    Chicken Wheezing and sneezing

    Hi! one of my chickens is wheezing and sneezing. Walks with mouth open and you can hear her breathing with like a rattle. She acts okay for now but the wheezing has me concerned? I have 5 other chickens but they seem to be okay. I brought her inside, she is in a dog crate right now with food and...
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    Do I just eventually let them fight it out?

    I have two flocks....one flock is about 1.5 years old (flock 1)and the other is 6 months old (flock 2). Each flock has 3 chickens. Flock 1 is two easter eggers and one ISA Brown - very sweet flock. Flock 2 is all blue ameracauna - another sweet but timid flock (rightfully so). Flock 2 has grown...
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    The big bully and my 15 week old chicks

    I have 2 flocks. One I call the "bigs" - they are close to 1.5 year old and the "little" are 15 weeks old. Three in each flock. The Bigs are 2 easter eggers and 1 ISA Brown and the Littles are all blue ameracauna. I slowly merged them at around 6-7 weeks, keeping the Littles inside the "indoor...
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    Can this snake hurt chickens

    I have 3 adults and 3 eight week old chicks (don't belong to the hens). I just found this snake....will it hurt my ladies? The tail is hanging through the window. They are protected with hard wire but I let the big girls out during the day that is not predator proof (except for from overhead...
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    Freshly cleaned coop - this does not makes sense to me....

    I just cleaned the coop and the covered run yesterday and put fresh thick layer of hemp bedding down (in both the coop and the attached covered run. I walked out this morning and the place is COVERED with flies. Including the coop (their bedroom/nesting area) which I've never seen a fly in (I...
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    Moving baby chicks outside in this heat

    My 3 baby chicks will be 4 weeks old on Wednesday. I would like to move them outside this week, thinking about bring them out for a few hours today, a few more the next day and then maybe have them 100% on Wednesday or Thursday? I do have 3 hens outside already - we made a little area in the...
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    Sand/dust bath for the 9 day old chicks?

    I have 4, 9-day old blue ameracauna. They seem to be more advanced than the other chicks I raised last year....two of them are already trying to "dust bathe" in their pine shavings.....I would like to give them a small dust bath with the construction sand in their tote/brooder since they are...
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    3 Week old chicken question

    I can't remember if chickens between the age of 3-4 weeks start to fly yet, out of the brooder? I just found out I will have a trip when my new baby chicks turn that age (they aren't hatched yet). I was going to have a neighbor watch them and had thought about just bringing the brooder to their...
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    Outdoor run material

    Attached is a pic of our setup. We have the coop (sleeping/laying quarters) to the far left in the shed. The "indoor run" in the middle - that uses hemp/deep litter and then to the far right is their "outdoor run" - this a little outside play area with netting on top to protect from hawks etc...
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    Curious, what do you do with an accidental rooster

    We aren't allowed to have a rooster. What would you do with a rooster if it was mis-sexed, if you couldn't keep him? Please don't laugh at this question, but are there places that actually take unwanted chickens?
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    Electrolytes - when is too much

    How much is too much? Should I offer electrolytes every day during extreme heat? I lost one chicken a couple of days ago and I have no idea why but thinking maybe it was the heat? It was quick and sudden and the heat index was between 107-109 that day (this is their first true summer). We are...
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    Best Practice for intro new chicks (only been raising chickens for a year....)

    I have/had 4 1 year old chickens. 1 austrolorp, 2 EE and 1 ISA Brown. The austolorp passed suddenly a couple of days ago. So now I have 3 (2 EE and 1 ISA (she is the head lady). I just ordered 3 blue ameracauna that will be here on 7/22 from Cackle - I only wanted 2 but smallest order is 3. What...
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    My sweet chicken died today....any idea what may have caused it?

    My 1 year old austolorp passed away today...... I'm trying to figure out why or if there is any worry that my other 3 chicks may get sick? She was perfectly fine....I let them all out to free range in my backyard and Astro ( the one that passed) was happy and running around like normal. About 30...
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