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    Egg color… speckled?!

    Hello! I have two Rhode Island reds, not quite a year old. They started laying in early December and they are doing great, free range walks with my old lady hen. They of course lay brown eggs, and Ive found it interesting that one lays a darker brown than the other. Often, the lighter brown...
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    Hired help ignored chickens

    Hi all! I’m going to share my frustrating story, then a question if you think this is affecting egg laying. I was away for ten days helping a friend. I pay a neighbor kid to let the chickens (three hens) out in the morning and close them up at night. I had a friend come by on Sunday (superbowl...
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    Senior hen dropping eggs

    You all have been very helpful with my past questions. So here’s another. My senior Hen seems to be dropping eggs. There were a couple rubber eggs when the weather turned cold. Two days ago I found one of her eggs on the ground in the lean to. A couple times her egg has been next to the...
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    Winter/summer quarters

    Hello chicks! I’m thinking ahead to summer! We built windbreak walls on part of our lean to in order to block the crazy South Dakota winds and protect the chickens from the cold. We used clear corrugated polycarbonate roofing panels to build the walls. This allows daylight in and allows the...
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    Intro two chicks to one hen

    Hi everyone! I need advice with my update. I have a lone hen whose chicken friend died in early June. She was trying to flock with the kittens, obviously lonely. I have two chicks that have been brooding in a tank in the same lean to as the hen, so she’s been able to hear and smell them. They...
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    Rebuilding flock

    Hi Chicks, I was down to two laying hens, getting two eggs a day which is sufficient for us at the moment. They free range -including visits over to the neighbors property which shares our rural driveway. On Tuesday, my neighbor’s daughter was visiting with her dog. My chickens were grubbing...
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    Poor sad wonky hen

    I have a hen that quit laying -which is fine- but she had pasty butt and I soaked her in warm water a week ago to clear it off… but she since then can’t raise her tail feathers. It’s so sad! If she were egg bound all this time she’d be dead by now… I don’t know how to help her. She gets...
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    Mature hen laying soft eggs

    We’ve recently discovered two soft eggs, two days in a row. Last week we noticed an egg that looked like it had a hard time coming out. We have three hens, they are exactly two years old. They’ve been laying through the winter 2 or 3 eggs a day total. Feeding them layer feed, scratch grain...
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    Guinea fowl for pest control?

    Hello friends. We moved to an 18 acre hobby farm in the past year. I have three chickens (hens) for eggs. We have noticed a few mice in the garage, and have been considering introducing a barn cat to manage that situation. However, in the summer we have tons of crickets ( I mean tons! ) and...
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    Heated waterer/ can you teach old chickens new tricks?

    Hi all! I have taken on my sister in law’s hens as she went south for the winter. I’m in south east South Dakota where temps hover around freezing through daytime hours, below freezing over night and it will dip even colder, single digits and -0 before winter is over. For that reason, I...
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    Rooster yay or nay?

    Judging by neck feathers would you say this one is a rooster? This is the only one I haven’t seen/heard crow.
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    combining young roosters with established hens

    Looking for advice and shared experience. I need to combine three young roosters with three laying hens. A little background: I raised three chicks that I got from a guy on FBMarketplace. All three turned out to be roosters. Sigh. They will reach 20 weeks at Thanksgiving. I recently took my...
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    Soft loose poop?

    Hello. I'm new to chickens - raised them with mom when I was a kid but that was a LONG time ago. Just yesterday and today I noticed a couple soft poops. Color and consistency of soft milk chocolate. No way to know which of three chickens. They are about 9 weeks old currently. They are on...
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    Chicken newbie

    Hi all! My husband and I just moved to a hobby farm. Last week we got three chicks from a FB marketplace dude.... we have a small TSC coop (hen house and small lower run) We constructed a run enclosure to let them get comfortable while they are small. (hope to free range next summer) The chicks...
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