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    Is this vent gleet or....?

    I just noticed this a couple days ago on my year old hen. Her bottom is bare and there is a white streak running down from her vent. The vent itself looks okay. She is still laying eggs. She is my hen that will run away if I even think about touching her, so it was difficult to catch her and...
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    How do you soak a chicken's foot?

    I have a hen with bumblefoot and it sounds like an epsom salt soak will be beneficial, but I can't figure out how I'm actually supposed to get her to stand still for a foot soak! How do y'all do it?
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    minimum number of chicks for well-being

    I'd like to add 1-2 chickens to my little flock this year and I'd like to raise them from chicks. I know getting just one would be bad since they are such social creatures and I don't want her to be lonely in the brooder, but is 2 also too small of a group? Would 3 be the absolute minimum or...
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    nesting box bully?

    I have two nesting boxes for my 6 one-year-old hens. 5 of the hens will only use the box on the right and they all seem fine and happy with whatever system they've worked out for sharing it. My 6th hen is a crossbeak and just finally started laying regularly. She likes the box on the left, so...
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    anyone else have chickens who double up in a nesting box??

    I'm not concerned, I just think it's so funny that I wondered if anyone else sees this commonly. My 6 hens have 2 nesting boxes and they use both. But sometimes I see two chickens sitting in the same box while the other one is empty! They seem completely happy. It's not even always the same box...
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    how much to pay a chicken sitter?

    I'm going on vacation for 2 weeks and am so sad to have to be away from my 18 week old pullets! My literal next door neighbor is going to watch them, but I'm not sure what to pay her. There are only 6 of them. Obviously they aren't laying yet or I'd offer her any eggs she gathers. She won't...
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    is it possible to keep water cups from getting slimy?

    I made an automatic waterer with a 5 gallon bucket, short hose, pvc pipe, and a series of those red auto-replenishing cups stuck into the pipe. I'm pretty happy with it overall. However, the cups keep getting slimy along the inside. I'm in south central TX so it's quite hot for a lot of the...
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    healthy chick making a different kind of sound than the other chicks

    I have 6 easter eggers that are three weeks old and doing fantastic. I'm so proud of them! (And me because these are my first chickens!) They all peep away happily all day long. But one of them doesn't make the usual peeping sound. I noticed it occasionally starting around 2 weeks, but now it's...
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