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    dae make chicken noises back at them???

    I've spent some time practicing mimicking their noises and every once in a while I'll sit down in their enclosure and purr and squawk at them and they usually get real chatty
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    should i be worried?

    I was holding one of my hens. She was resting in the palm of my hand (one of the smaller breeds) and I think? I just pressed against her crop weird bc she made the gagging motion and then puked up a clear fluid and I think it might have just been that she drank too much water? but apparently it...
  3. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    she's very broody and the designated egg watcher tm and i steal her eggs every morning and she nips at me and fluffs up real big. These aren't just warning pecks either!!! she goes in for the kill. I want to try and find a way to get on better terms with her. We tried letting her hatch her own...
  4. M

    poopy vent

    is there any way for me to convince my poor hens that I'm not in fact trying to hurt or harass them when I go to help clean the poop stuck to the feathers on their vent??? I haven't had to do it often but it's been more than twice now with one specific hen and she is always so distressed about it
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    hi im mae

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I grew up on a farm with chickens as a kid, but I haven't had chickens since I was 8. That is until last year 2023 when I got a job as a behavioral mental health specialist at a transitional living facility. They have chickens at...
  6. M

    chicken i work with can't move anything below his neck coworkers believe its trauma from another rooster

    looking for any advice on how to make sure he eats and drinks well and that he isn't sitting in his own waste I put his head up to the water and he drinks some he seems t have some limited neck movement and head movement. He can't move his neck enough to keep it up but he can move it a little...
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