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    Hen limping, losing feathers

    Hi all, my 1.5 y/o buff orpington hen has started limping these past few days. She is still eating and drinking normally, although I think her egg laying has decreased or stopped. I have attached some pics, but it looks like her left leg is the one bothering her. The past few days she's been...
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    1.5 y/o hen not laying recently

    I have 6 hens, born April 2024. Recently I’ve noticed that one of them has either slowed down laying her eggs or has stopped completely. I have 3 green and 3 brown layers. By differentiating between the shades of brown I’m suspecting the freeloader is my fav girl and hen with the biggest...
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    Molting or something else?

    I just noticed that one of my 1 year old hens has a bare spot on the front of her neck (apologies for the bad pics, she wasn’t very cooperative). I know that chickens usually molt in the fall, and they’re pretty young still too, not sure if this is an early molt or something else. None of my 5...
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    Letting Hen Raise Chicks

    I have a flock of six chickens that I got last spring, so they'll be a year old in March. We're thinking of getting a couple more chicks (maybe 2) in a few months and letting my buff orpington raise them. She's gone broody pretty frequently since she started laying eggs around Aug/Sept, and I...
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    Bird flu prevention

    I know that avian influenza is on the rise right now, and I have a backyard flock of 6 chickens that will be a year old this spring. They have a coop and a moderately sized run, but we let them out once a day to free range (usually with supervision) in our small fenced backyard. This might be a...
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    chicken sneezing

    I have a flock of 6 chickens under a year old and I noticed that one of them has been sneezing often for the past week or so. The weather has been weird in CT lately, so I was thinking the temperature changes could be impacting her respiratory system? (for example, yesterday it was in the high...
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    wry neck?? in 16 w/o hen

    Hi all, a friend has a chicken that was born this past spring and from day one she had a weird neck that was twisted. She’s now around 16 weeks and is still showing the same issue. She doesn’t really go out with the rest of the flock and just stays in the coop. Wondering if this is wry neck, as...
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    Ameraucana cross? Mixed breed identification

    Trying to figure out a breed here. One of my hens is a mixed-breed, born this spring, I think she's probably crossed with a purebred black ameraucana (hence the cheek puffs), however it is also possible her mother is a mixed breed as well. My flock of 6 started laying for the first time...
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    Squash leaves poisonous?

    So I know that some plants are toxic to chickens, and my hens will usually leave my garden alone when they’re free-ranging, but today one of them grabbed a tiny bite of a squash leaf and ate it (it really wasn’t much, only like a square inch, if that). I was just wondering if/how much of the...
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    Fluff on olive egger’s head

    So I’ve noticed my 7-8 week old olive egger chick has developed a little poof on her head, and I was just wondering if anyone thinks she’ll have this as an adult as well. I hope she does, it’s super cute. I know that olive eggers aren’t an “official breed” so characteristics are a bit different...
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    Cut on chick’s foot

    Just noticed a small cut on my 7w/o chick’s foot today. I tried to bandage it using neosporin, gauze, and self-adhering bandage wrap. After about a minute or so she immediately ripped it off her foot. How important is it that this cut is wrapped? Not sure how to make sure it stays on.
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    Brown stuff in egg?

    Hi, not sure where exactly to share this post, but I was wondering if anyone has an idea about what this brown stuff is in this egg? I’ve gotten a few like this before.
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    Bella

    Just wanted to come on here and share a bit about one of my chicks, “Bella” (Italian for “beautiful”). We rescued her from a friend back in the beginning of April. She was only a few days old and born a runt so the other chicks were really beating her up. We took her home (as our first chicken...
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    hen or rooster?

    Hi, I have a (roughly) 6/7-week-old mixed-breed chick and I’m pretty sure she’s a hen but I just wanted to check. She’s around the same size as all my other female chicks and her comb is practically non-existent although I’m not sure if that’s just because she was picked on during her first...
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    What breed roosters?

    Any idea what breeds these 2 roosters are?
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    Chick enrichment ideas?

    I have 6 young chicks (ages ranging from a few days old to about 1 week) and this is my first flock. I noticed that in the brooder, they’re all digging around the edge almost like they’re trying to escape (I know that this is just their instinct to look for bugs, etc.) What can I give them at...
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    Baby chick poop normal?

    I have a chick that’s a few days old, pretty small but otherwise her energy seems normal. She is eating and drinking. I wanted to know what “normal” chick poop looks like, because hers seems a bit runny. It’s not completely liquid or anything, but not firm. Should I be concerned, or is this...
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    Help lonely chick?

    I just adopted a “runt” chick from a friend because all their other chicks were attacking it (pulling out feathers, pecking to the point of bleeding, stepping on it). We aren’t supposed to get the rest of our chicks for 3 days, but I had to rescue this poor girl/guy and save it from being killed...
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    Introduction

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am new to chickens. I have worked at a farm with chickens for the past 1.5 yrs, but I am just now getting my first backyard flock (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 1 chick (soon to be 5-6) (3) What breeds do you have...
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