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    chicken isolation

    A quick question. If it were you would you isolate an offending chicken or the offended chicken from the flock? The offender is a young roo and the offended is one of our older hens. Culling is not an option for me and the roo will most likely end up at our area livestock auction but in the...
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    Dual coops

    Just curious, does anyone see any downside or issues with having two coops accessible to the flock? We have our original coop(about 18 sq.ft.) which we blocked off so the flock would learn to go to the new 120 sq.ft. coop, which they have. Both coops enter into the same fenced in area. I’ve been...
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    Bedtime drama

    We have a flock of BO’s, 5 adults(1 rooster),2 teenagers of about two months old and three peeps of about three weeks old. All of the young ones were hatched out by two of our hens that went broody. Anyway, of the two ‘teenagers’ one is seriously harassed at bedtime for some unexplainable...
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    new chick being picked on

    We have 5 BO’s (1 rooster) all just over a year old and all have been together since day one. About two months ago or so one of the hens went broody and hatched two peeps. Everything went well with no drama or upheaval within the flock related to the new chicks. Recently noticed that one of...
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    A molting question

    I have BO’s currently at about 14 months of age. Now everything I’m reading suggests the first molt would be around 18 months which would put these chickens smack in the middle winter with limited feathering, is this correct. Or am I missing something.
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    broody not leaving nest

    My broody BO hasn’t left the nest in nearly two weeks. Food and water have been put within her reach but does’t appear to be touched. She has only been seen off the eggs once about three day after setting but not since and we are day 16. Should we be concerned?
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    Broken spur

    Just noticed our rooster appears to have broken a spur. Haven’t had a chance yet to get a closer look but it looks broken and hanging down along his leg, also noted some blacking where it broke. I have no idea how long its been like this but it can’ t be more than a day or two. Any advice on how...
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    New chicks

    Never saw this brought up anywhere so…..If my rooster fertilizes eggs and my broody hatches these eggs, and these new chicks grow up, and the rooster starts mounting them how does this work with inbreeding?
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    new chicks

    So, broody hen hatched three eggs, two survived. We are now in day two and the chicks and mother seem to have left the nest box and the three of them have been running around the coop. I placed food and water in for the chicks and a bit of a ramp from the coop floor to the nest box. We are...
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    Broody hatching eggs, what next.

    We have a BO hen that has taken to setting three eggs, all three appear viable as of the last candling. She is setting in a nest box which is elevated off the floor of the coop by about 10” or so, and the coop itself is elevated above ground level by about two feet. We have three other hens and...
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    broody hen still laying?

    We have a BO hen that went broody and is sitting three eggs, which we marked, and she does leave the box daily for about an hour or so. We’ve noticed that on two separate times an egg has shown up with the three marked eggs. I know that all the other hens are out in the yard while she is out so...
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    broody hen

    We have a not quite one year old hen that has gone broody and is sitting on three eggs. Wanting to be sure she is taking a break to tend to herself, which she is, I’ve been keeping a close eye on her. My question is: How long can she be away from the nest? Outside temps are in the 80’s and her...
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    odd egg

    Just found one of these the other day, first one ever. Is this something to be concerned about? It’s soft and small.
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    Amorous chicken?

    So here’s the situation, I have a almost one year old BO hen who is my buddy. When I’m out in the yard with them she’ll come over for me to stroke her chin or pick her up and carry her for a bit, or just simply pet her. Anyway, recently she seems to be a bit more demanding and will peck me to...
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    fluffed up hen

    We have a 10 month old BO hen that recently ended up with a clump of dried poop on her rear. We cleaned her and checked her vent and everything appears clear. But at the same time we also noticed she seems to walk around with her feathers fluffed out although she doesn’t appear to act any...
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    What breed?

    What breed is this chicken? TIA
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    Returning down

    Our hens have bare patches on their backs from the roosters, which has been resolved. I know they will pretty much stay this way until their first molt however I’ve noticed that downy feathers are starting to reappear……OR, am I losing my mind?
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    Bare chicken backs

    We, unfortunately, ended up with too many cockerels for the number of hens (2 out of 6). As a result our hens were being beaten by the boys fighting over them with the subsequent loss of back and wing feathers. We managed to finally re-home the one cockerel (the bully) and the remaining cockerel...
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    Chicken saddles?

    We were unfortunate to get two boys with our six chicken flock and dealt with the two boys exuberance, until we recently were able to get rid of one them, by putting saddles on the hens. This is what the hens look like after removing them after about two months. Not sure it would have been...
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    Odd cockerel

    I have a cockerel (about 9 months old) that would stay as far from me as possible. This morning he stood and let me pick him up with little to no drama. Any thoughts on why out of the blue he would allow this?
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