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    1 Lying Down, 1 Month Breathing, 2 Possible Sneezes

    I noticed something off with these 3 Tuesday morning around 8am and put out electrolytes and probiotics for support until my lunch break. By 8:30, I was on my way to the ER. I didn't see my hens again until late Thursday morning, and they all seemed less normal than on Tuesday. They had...
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    Too Much of a Good Thing... Calcium Edition

    When 4 of my 5 pullets became laying hens, I expected oyster and egg shell consumption to increase by 400%, but it really seems like it's more. I'm having trouble keeping the feeder from being empty some days, and my youngsters are still just laying tiny eggs. The shells are as hard as granite...
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    Advice, please, from crow feeders and friends

    My house is surrounded by wide open pastures that belong to the ranch I work for and I'm plagued with hawks. As far as I can tell (and I have lots of opportunity to observe) there are 2-4 hawks whose territories either border or overlap right here. I've seen hawks chased off by crows now and...
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    Tiny Eggs. Big Flavor. (need recipe advice)

    COOKING QUESTION: When I cook for Christmas, I cook a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Roast turkey, giblet gravy, southern sage dressing, deviled eggs... all highly egg intensive recipes. I'm cooking this year and I'm excited to use my own farm fresh eggs for the first time in my favorite...
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    24 week old black australorp... no eggs

    All of my 24 week olds have been laying for a week or two. Morticia could have started 8 weeks ago. Still no eggs. When should I be concerned? How will her health be affected if she doesn't produce? She is a pet, so she'll always have a home here. I just worry it could be a sign of something...
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    Legs Turning Red

    I have 6 chickens. 2 wyandottes, minorca, austrolorp, barred rock (all about 22 weeks old) and a 2yo Leghorn. Yesterday morning I noticed one wyandotte's legs turning red. Like individual scales on legs and feet. I noticed the same on the other Wyandotte and my Leghorn at bedtime last night. No...
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    What the Actual Cluck? (A Journal)

    I have hesitated starting a journal thread here. I'm not sure why, other than feeling like it would be another responsibility I'd be accountable for rather that a carefree space to ramble on about girls to an audience that may actually be interested. Several times in recent weeks,I've logged...
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    Questions, Observations, and Awe as any pullets come of age.

    Yesterday, I was watching my girls in the chicken yard, amazed at how my pullets have each developed a unique personality with likes and dislikes, etc. in the short time since they arrived in a tiny box as even tinier balls of fluff. That's when I first realized that the pullets are now the size...
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    Eggbound Early Warning Signs

    Is it possible to predict a hen is likely to become eggbound? Are there early warning signs? I have one hen laying (Lucy) and a handful of pullets. Yesterday at dark, Lucy had not provided her daily egg. Still no egg by this afternoon. However, when Iwent out to visit right before sunset...
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    Unsuccessfully bottle feeding 4 week old kitten. NEED HELP!!!!!

    Short version: I've been trying to feed this kitten 'for' 24 hours. He hasn't gotten a drop from the bottle. I don't know what I'm doing. Please advise.( Long version: On Saturday afternoon, I got distracted while replacing plexiglass in a broken window of the ranch vehicle I drive. The window...
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    Profile Banner Size

    I searched but didn't find a size recommendation for profile banners. Is there one?
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    Minorca, 13 weeks... ALL the angles.

    The chicken I know as Kitty Foreman looks more and more like Red Foreman to me, but what do I know? Red feathers are everywhere, including several tail feathers, so I am on the edge of my seat waiting for the next unfurling! What do you think? Kitty or Red? Per the pinned thread, I have...
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    Almost 2 years old, hasn't molted in over a year.

    My Leghorn, Lucy, was 9 months old when I adopted her in September last year. That makes her a January hatch and 21-22 months old (I would typically say almost 2 years old and not sound so much like a weirdo). In the year+ she's been with me, she's never molted. When should/could I expect that...
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    Honk! Honk! Peep! Peep!

    A week or two ago I was in the chicken yard, tending to things, and my chicks were peeping up a storm. They soun1Ided like dozens instead of five. I remember thinking I need to enjoy the sound before it's gone. Well, it's gone. My 12-week olds are now honking. Each of the 5 is a different breed...
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    (video): Caught on CoopCam last night... Is my hen choking?

    CoopCam captured something new last night, and I don't know if it's normal or if Lucy is having a problem and needs help. I went to the coop and brought her into the house only a few minutes later, but I saw this footage way later. She seemed perfectly normal in the house with us, but I...
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    Integration Phase Two = Success

    I've been so nervous and stressed about putting Lucy and the Chicks together, but I moved forward yesterday evening. After being "Look, don't touch" since August 18th, I decided it was time. I set up a number of obstacles in Lucy's run and opened the ' door between the runs about an hour before...
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    Integrating 5 chicks to 1 Hen.... I'm a nervous wreck.

    The chicks ( Mortician, Marion, Kitty, Peggy, and Edith) have been living in the set up, separate from Lucy, since the 18th. They have all been exposed to each other through a wire crate for about two weeks beyond that. I've got multiple feeders and waterers set up, cleared the areas that...
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    How Do I VENTILATE This Coop TODAY? Need to move chicks in ASAP ... TODAY!

    I need to move 5 chicks into an UNVENTILATED COOP TODAY!! Temps are going to be103° outside = 120° inside the coop. I have to ventilate it myself, today, after working on the ranch all day, in the hottest part of the day, without cutting holes in the sheet metal, and for $ZERO. I think I can...
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    Didn't find mites on Lucy, but there's something not right going on. '

    I checked Lucy for mites when I treated her Bumblefoot a couple of weeks ago and found none other than scaly leg mites. Those were treated along with the Bumblefoot. Over the past day or two, the feathers around her face and neck have gone a dirty-looking tan color versus bright white and...
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    Hummingbird Hatch in my yard (pretty darn cool)

    Two hummingbirds built their nests in my yard at eye level this year (there was at least one more way over head). One looked like it was her first attempt at building. She laid one egg and it didn't make it; I found the shell on the ground. The other nest appeared to have been built by a...
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