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    Is this mareks?

    She was fine yesterday. Just started doing this an hour ago. 11-12 week old EE (and her rooster who is upset I just separated her). Can it be something else? I posted this and now she’s walking around (pacing rhe cage I just put her in) but I’m worried.
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    Will cockerels sing an egg song?

    This is my 10-11 week old EE named Penguin. I have been thinking for a few weeks that Penguin was a cockerel (behavior, bigger comb, red splashes all over, and looks like they might be getting saddle feathers). Today I was startled by a loud egg song….very distinct….very “egg song”! So I went...
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    Injured chick

    I had a few 4-5 week old chicks in their own run outside. It’s not as secure as I’d like but the dogs are out and it’s near the house. I heard a chicken scream and ran out. I found one lying in the food bowl bleeding. She is still breathing and her injuries don’t look terrible but I’m worried...
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    Six week old “Americanas” (EEs). Any surprise cockerels?

    In true chicken math, husband wanted lavender Orpingtons. One left in the bin, so now we have 5 EEs (labeled as pullets) and one lavender Orpington (“Daddy’s Girl”) So….any surprise cockerels in here? They look like pulleys but I’m not sure of course
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    EEs - gender?

    Hi just curious if you can tell any signs of gender? I’ve had chickens for about a year but these are my first EEs. We got these 5 weeks ago, I would guess they were 2 weeks old (pretty feathered at that point). So maybe 7-8 weeks? I feel so confident the grey one is a pullet that I named her...
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    Two heat exhaustion deaths in a month

    I am in SE North Carolina--this is my 2nd summer of raising chickens. Last year I did not have any issues with heat, but the chickens were young, mostly pullets. This month I lost my (only) two black Australorps. One died because she was broody, and I think I needed to bring her inside or...
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    Am I doing this wrong (first broody hen)

    I have 8 hens, no roosters. My reliable layer, Roxanne (9 month old Australorp) went broody about 10 days ago? Maybe two weeks now. By that I mean she wants to LIVE in the nesting box, 100 % of the time. She comes out to eat in the AM, goes right back in there, and has stopped laying eggs as...
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    First Rooster Experience- Advice

    This is my first time owning chickens. We have 3 hens a surprise black sex link rooster (got in the barred rock bin at TSC). We actually had another rooster (same bin) who got taken by a hawk at about 11 weeks. They are all 6 months old and two are laying. . . and 4 more chicks in a brooder...
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    Adolescent rooster (black sex link)

    We just started raising chickens in February. We have a current flock of 4 hens, 1 rooster, and only 1 hen laying. Everyone is 21 weeks. So...we had a flock of 8 and we had 3 separate predator attacks. We now know we have hawks, owls and one fox incident. For this reason, I want these hens to...
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    Nesting boxes vs. Trees

    I have been letting my chickens (I am just starting and only have four 17 week old Pullets) free range through our yard from like 7am to 5pm. I put them in the run or the coop after that and then they walk themselves up into the chicken house that I can lock. We have two nesting boxes all set up...
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    Owl behavior- weird kill

    Three days ago my two youngest chickens got killed. I heard them around 6 am, squawking (which made no sense because they shoud've been in their coop which is pretty far from my bedroom window). I went running out to find both of them, still alive, very badly wounded (lots of blood under their...
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    Pullet or Cockerel (I guess this is an EE mix, lots of Ameraucana in it)

    Hi! I got two chicks from a local farmer (met the chicken and rooster parents). One of them is an olive egger, described as Wellsummer/Ameraucana and the other they called an Ameraucana--I don't really care, just hoping for fun egg colors. I also paid $4 each, so . . . not exactly high end...
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    8 week old chick (Ameraucana) peeps all the time

    Hi--I'm pretty new to the world of chicken raising. We got 4 chicks and then decided to add 2 more, so we have 4 15 week old chickens (they all appear to be hens, miraculously) and two 8 week old chickens that I bought from a local farm. I am not sure on the genders yet, but one is an Ameraucana...
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