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    I think my newly minted hen (1 yr today) is broody…?

    My girls from Last year hit 1 today. And the past couple days I noticed one of my buff orpingtons started puffing up (as in raising hackles when others or I approach her )and going”rRrrrrrrrr”, like she’s pissed. She’s super vocal all of a sudden and makes this sound when I’m handing out...
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    Bird flu anxiety as snow melts

    I’m in upstate NY … and we have had SO much snow. Welll, it’s going to finally get above freezing which means snow melt. My birds have been safely buttoned up all winter … but once all this damn snow starts melting I’m pretty sure the completely Covered run they’re in (not allowed to free...
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    Sweet lord it never ends. Bumblefoot?

    One of my girls started eating the straw in my run almost explicitly, so I was advised to remove it. Now there’s hard packed earth. ANOTHER one of my girls just appears to have developed bumblefoot? (Picture included). She’s then Wyandotte and the heaviest .. I can only imagine it’s related...
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    What would cause a 33 week old pullet to eat straw and not crumbles?

    This is a new issue that’s cropped up. This girl is usually a little pig but lately she’s been turning her nose up at the chicken feed (nutrena layer and kalmbach all flock) even when wet. I know it’s cold and maybe they don’t appreciate the cold food but even dry she’s primarily eating the...
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    How to tell is it’s molting or something else?

    My girl EE pullet ( 38 weeks) stopped laying a couple weeks back and started dropping feathers. Couldn’t see where they were coming from, no Bald spots or anything but she had m feathers under her in the coop and I found them periodically through the run. Then I noticed she looked cold during...
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    What kind of wound is this?

    Is this a pecking wound on my girl’s wattle? She’s pretty low in the pecking order if not rock bottom. Should I do something with it? Like clean or anything? It has been warm lately and it only showed up today so I don’t think I’d frostbite and she’s been out in much colder weather than this...
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    Finding straw in poop

    Well, I’ve noticed a couple Of my girls have decided that eating chopped straw in the run is a good idea I guess? I’m sure they rest some of it pecking around and scratching in the run but my question is - is it too much? If so what do I do? Remove the straw from the run? They like to break up...
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    Chicken inside, going back out in winter - recclimate?

    Farm vet suggested I bring one of my girls in because she was getting too cold (sluggish, fluffed up, not moving, barely eating in this cold snap of 3 degrees from 30… she’s an Easter egger with a large single comb) So we did and she perked up, but she has to return to my small flock Of 5...
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    8 month old stopped laying

    My green egger was a pretty consistent one a day , every light day as it got Colder but it’s going on 4 days now that she hasn’t laid. Pooping fine, Eating, seems normal but I’ve read pullers continue to lay through winter? She got pecked pretty bad on the day no one laid because they were all...
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    After 12 inches of snow+rain+thaw=flooded run..

    I can’t get the dirt floor of my run to dry out. I’m at a loss. I put down plenty of straw at first but I’m afraid that because it’s so damp underneath I’m going to get mold in the straw.. I put more on top and they scratch it up and in an hour it’s all damp. Then things freeze overnight and...
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    Chickens digging a dang soup bowl - anti- flooding advice needed

    My birds are digging through the dirt floor and creating a massive depression in their run… it already would flood with heavy rains and I’m worried about what is going to happen when snow thaws in the spring. Mine are literal backyard birds, can’t free range by law. I can’t pick ip The run and...
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    Automatic chicken door timing for winter?

    So the chickies are going to roost at around 6pm these days. My coop door is automatic as closes at 7pm. My question is, what time should I let them out? We have no food or water in the coop but the sun doesn’t come up until around 7-something right now, and we have it scheduled vs the sensor...
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    Slight ridges lengthwise and new, wrinkly bottoms on eggs?

    I have some young pullets, will be 25 weeks this Friday a 2 of which have laid some soft shelled eggs close to the same time as one another in the last month. Suddenly the eggs kind of have ridges in them lengthwise with wrinkly bottoms. Is this something that can be normal with layers this...
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    Two soft shelled eggs overnight, only one girl wasn’t laying

    As the title says, I have only one girl that wasn’t laying - my other buff Orpington pullet. They are all about 24 weeks this week and the others started around 16-18. Thing is, these were under a different girl entirely who regularly lays, and laid just this morning… Is it more likely that...
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    Finding mold in the run

    Found some white mold growing Behind one of the pavers I have a feeder set up on. The floor is dirt and they frequently knock feed out and it gets behind there sometimes. I’ve scraped it up but now I’m concerned about what I can do to prevent it from growing again.. I need feeders separated...
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    Pullet suddenly not interested in food and water

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Delaware, 22-23 weeks? She feels hefty. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. not eating / drinking that I can see, won’t eat from hand, slightly interested in egg but mostly grit and...
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    Unearthing old hardware

    I found a large aluminum screw in the waterer and a rusty one in the dust bath area where my girls dustbathe in their enclosed dirt floor run today… they have been digging so much they are unearthing all manner of old thing.. this house was built 100 years ago. Is there anything I can...
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    Chicken jail questions

    So I need to isolate a bully who is resource guarding 3(!) feeders from one of my girls… I have a couple Of dog crates but they are too big to fit in the coop without blocking roosts and nesting boxes, or would it make more sense to stick her in the garage since she’d be out of sight from the...
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    Need quick suggestions! Chickens eating grass / tree rhizomes, impacted crops??

    The ground in my run has been damp from rains and they scratched it up, exposing the fibrous roots below and have been going to town on them, I think- the problem is at least one of my birds, I the morning, has a crop with things still in it, it’s doughy like modeling clay.. it doesn’t really...
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    Mites in food?

    Hand feeding my birds I found long pale mites in the feeders and maybe some small coppery ones? I have a cat, and the neighbors (a few feet over ) have a cat and I’m wary of using permethrin… any suggestions? My chickens are confined to their run with no access from outside birds and I haven’t...
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