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    Diamond Duchess and Painted Sussex?

    We are adding to an existing flock this spring, so this is my second go-around for brooding chicks. All winter I had researched, and intended to look for certain breeds this spring. But because of the current craze in chicken rearing, those breeds have been hard to find at my local farm stores...
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    Diamond Duchess?

    Family Farm and Home offers an exclusive breed called "Diamond Duchess". Does anyone have experience with this breed? I know nothing about their history, personality/temperament, egg production, etc. (other than what FF&H says on their website).
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    Aviary Veterinarians?

    Three years ago, when we purchased our first 6 birds, no one told us how heartbreaking it would be when one of our hens gets sick and dies, develops a medical condition, or is injured by a predator, etc. Even worse, no one pointed out that when (not if) this happens, we would pretty much be on...
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    Nipple-style waterers for chicks?

    Does anyone have experience training chicks to drink from a nipple water dispenser? I plan to add new birds to my existing adult flock who have been using a nipple waterer for some time (I trained them after they were grown). I would like the newbies to have been trained to use the same style...
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    modified diet during a molt?

    It is that time of year when it looks like a chicken exploded in the coop--molting has begun and feathers are everywhere! What can I do to help them get through it? I've read multiple sources with conflicting advice ranging from: 1. increasing protein with supplements to their typical rations...
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    Thin shelled/no shell eggs

    I have a 2 1/2 year old Easter Egger that frequently produces extremely thin-shelled eggs and sometimes no-shelled eggs. When she does produce eggs with shells, they are often oddly shaped and almost always have pimple-like formations on one end (I assume these are calcium deposits?). The flock...
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    Bumble foot and/or something worse?

    I have a 2 year-old hen who has developed a limp and reluctance to walk. She has reduced appetite, stopped laying, and is producing green, runny poops. This has persisted for a little more than a week. She has no other symptoms (no nasal, eye, mouth discharges/no sneezing, coughing). She does...
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    Egg membrane protruding from vent?

    last night I discovered that our black Australorp (about two years old) had what appeared to be the remains of a egg shell membrane protruding from her vent. She was already roosting with her sisters so I removed her from the coop and have her isolated. About an hour earlier, I had observed her...
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    Late-in-the-day egg layers?

    What's the latest time of the day your hens lay eggs? We have 5 laying hens. One of our Easter eggers is usually the first, usually before 9:00 am. But our black Australorp is usually the last, sometimes not until after 3:00 or 4:00 pm. It doesn't really matter to me, but I had read someplace...
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    What commercial feed do you use for your laying hens?

    We have been feeding our hens Kalmbalch All Natural feed (17% protein). Is this a good feed? I am just curious what others are feeding their birds. Ours seem to be doing well on the Kalmbalch, although I suspect they are feather picking which some have suggested may be the result of a protein...
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    What happened to their fluffy butts?

    I joined this forum while searching for information about feather loss our hens are undergoing right now. They have been loosing feathers around their vents and rumps--one is missing feathers on her lower back next to her tail (see pix). We have inspected them for mites/lice but haven't seen any...
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    This never gets old...

    This is our first year of raising Hens. Our girls have been laying since August and I still love seeing this in the next boxes. It's like Easter Morning everyday!
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    New Member from Ohio

    Hello Everyone! I am new to this forum. My wife and I began raising chickens last spring so our ladies are now a year old and we have been loving it so far. We have 5 hens (two Rhode Island Reds; two Easter Eggers; and one Black Australorp). We got our chicks from RP Home and Harvest on Easter...
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