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    Is this a shelless egg or a lash egg?

    I was not smart enough to open it and I threw it out, but it felt like a water balloon with liquid inside. I have oyster shell available always, but I took the top off that feeder so that it was as accessible as possible today. These are my first birds and I've never had anything like this. They...
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    Limping hen

    My hen is limping and I can't find any sores or visible swelling on her leg. What do I do to help her? Of course it has to be the one hen who wants nothing to do with me.
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    What does this behavior mean?

    So my lowest ranking girl, Cordelia, recently started laying. She instantly went from untouchable to being my best friend. I absolutely love the change, but she has started being really involved when I clean the coop. She fusses around the best boxes, she parades back and forth in front of me on...
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    Do I always leave the dummy eggs?

    I tried to look for this info, but didn't find an answer. This is my first time with poultry of any kind. My girls are five months, and I know for sure that two are laying and think that a third has started because over the past week and a half we've had three eggs on two different days. I...
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    Technically, she did still use the nesting box...

    It totally still counts 🤣
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    Five month old layer taking a really long time today

    My Jersey Giant girls are only five months, but one started laying last week. She's been laying one small egg a day. My concern is that today she has been working on it for hours. Usually, she goes in, works on it for a little bit, then comes back out and goes on with her day. Is she ok? I tried...
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    What can I use to safely hang things?

    I have been using chain while the birds' feeder and water was in the coop because it was a very short length and no wind to push things around, but now that everything is moving to the run, I'm questioning having that much hanging chain from the ceiling. Is chain the safest? Thick cording? I...
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    Is this early sign of scaly leg mites?

    If you zoom in, you can see that some of the scales where the leg meets the foot look maybe flaky? Especially on the first pic. I don't want to wait if it's mites until everyone is bad to treat. They're only four months old. So far, none of my chickens' legs have this look. Everyone free ranges...
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    This was the only place that would appreciate this

    I'm sorry if this isn't ok, but nobody would appreciate this except the people here. I've been meaning to wipe down the roost bars and poop boards for a while, but when I went in the coop this morning, it looked like there had been some sort of poop party and everyone had been invited. Smeared...
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    How to help Guineas find the run door?

    I am truly baffled. We just started letting our flock of Guineas and chickens out into the giant backyard, and they can NOT figure out how to get back in or out of their run. If one happens to get in, everybody panics and just runs up and down the hardware mesh wall looking at each other. I had...
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    Base that will work with 32oz Mason jar?

    I could have sworn I saw multiple water bases online when I was getting my chicks that are supposed to be compatible with Mason jars, but now I can't find any that aren't for quail. I want to hang a few extra waterers in the run to account for bullying and the don't like using the porous plastic...
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    Question about free-range intro method

    I have a question about the free-ranging method people keep suggesting of letting out just a few at a time initially. When you put them back in the run, do they get picked on for being separate all day? I want to be prepared.
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    What is this sound?

    One of my fourteen week old chicks is making a really weird sound. It's just one sharp "bock" and she seems to make kind of a little head shake sometimes when she does it like a sneeze. I didn't have my phone with me when I shut them in tonight, so I don't have a good video, but here's Ring...
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    Thirteen week old chicks not roosting

    I'm hoping this is no big deal, but two of my girls don't roost on the perches in the coop at night. They cram into the corner of the floor under the lowest roost bar at night. My other kiddos all roost on the high roost. Will the corner crammers eventually make their way up on their own? It...
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    Is this poop or regurgitation?

    I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place. This was in my coop today. They have sand in the coop which is why it's so gritty, but it looks like a big splat of clear to whitish thick liquid and I don't know what it is, who it came out of, or what I should do about it. I've seen some runny...
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    Dirty chicken- clean or leave?

    Didn't know where to post this question. It's definitely not an emergency. I just don't know if I should be doing something. I have a nine week old Jersey Giant girl who is covered in what I assume is dried pee/poo. Her feathers on one side of her neck and chest are disgusting and stuck together...
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    Eight weeks old and feathers everywhere?

    I have looked and looked in my books and online, but can't find out if this is normal. My eight week old chicks and keets are dropping what seems like a lot of feathers. Granted, there are eleven birds, so I guess if everyone just dropped one or two, it would seem like lots, anyway. Is this just...
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    How to keep the poultry off the barn fan

    I've had a fan in their outdoor enclosed space on a table all this time and haven't seen a single bird try to get on that fan. Moved them into the coop today and one of the first things I've of my birds did was get on top of the roaring barn fan. How do I keep them off without impeding airflow...
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    How should I treat this cut on neck?

    I don't know what happened to my baby, but I'm assuming one of the other birds did it. I pulled him out and dabbed it with betadine solution and put neosporin on it. Do I need to cover it? Do I need to separate him? I put him back in and one of my helpful chicks immediately pecked at the...
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    For those with giant breeds, is 23" wide/deep enough for poop boards?

    I stumbled into finding out that silicone mats are SO EASY to clean poultry poop off of. I'd really like to make that the top of my poop boards, but the length I found that I wanted only come in 23.5" wide. If I did the boards at 23" and still put the roost a foot away from the wall, will losing...
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