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  1. Tyranno-Chicken Rex

    Keeping My Chickens Safe but Stimulated?

    Hello! Recently there has been a breakout of bird flu very close to where I live, and as you might know, bird flu pretty fatal for chickens and spreads through entire coops very easily. To keep my chickens safe, I was advised against taking them outside, where they might be exposed to bird flu...
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    Black skin on Chicken?

    Hi, My ~16mo black sex link chicken developed dark slightly swollen skin around an area where her feathers were picked (the feather picking happened many months ago and she is beginning to grow them back on other parts). The other skin is also red and yellow, but I am hesitant to say it’s a...
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    Molting or something else

    A couple of my chickens have missing feathers around their necks, they’re about 9mo old and haven’t had their first molt yet. I haven’t noticed big piles of feathers under the roosting bars, but there are a few here and there around the coop. One also has small yellowish flaps of skin in the...
  4. Tyranno-Chicken Rex

    Molting or something else

    A couple of my chickens have missing feathers around their necks, they’re about 9mo old and haven’t had their first molt yet. I haven’t noticed big piles of feathers under the roosting bars, but there are a few here and there around the coop. One also has small yellowish flaps of skin in the...
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    Chickens have red, swollen vent areas, but no parasites?

    I noticed a couple of my chickens had a red and swollen vent area this afternoon, and while taking pictures noticed a third one. I checked each for other symptoms of parasites: they’re all pretty active, don’t seem agitated, eating well, and no red spots or moving black specks or bugs in the...
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    Question Regarding Unusual Head Hen Behavior

    So apparently the hen at the top of the pecking order is called the “head hen”? Well a hen in my flock who I previously thought was the head hen is behaving strangely by sleeping in the doorway of the henhouse at night instead of on the roosts with the other chickens. I read this is normal if...
  7. Tyranno-Chicken Rex

    Introduction

    Hi I’m from Massachusetts and I have 5 (down from 6, sadly) chickens. They are all Black Sex Links because I did some research and found that they are apparently weather-hardy chickens which is obviously important for this climate. This is my first time raising chickens and they’re about 8...
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