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    Stop chickens from flying?

    Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is any way to stop my chickens from flying over their gate and into our garden, but without clipping their wings because they are used for showing. Putting them somewhere with a roof is also out of the question because their run is too big. Any suggestions...
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    Yak thread!

    Hi everyone! I know yaks aren't too common, but I thought there must be other yak owners on BYC! So this is a thread where you can share pictures and talk all you want about your yaks! I'll start! I have a herd of 7 yaks on my friends' 40 acres. We have one native, two native trims, two royals...
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    Pullet with barking cough!

    So my cinnamon queen pullet has this barking cough that sounds terrible! I felt her crop and it felt mushy with some little hard pieces in it(?), most likely from scratch, though I don't have much experiences with crops to know what they are supposed to feel like. It's hard to get it on video...
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    How old was your oldest chicken?

    Hi everyone! I just wanted to start this thread because I know there are a bunch of people out there with crazy experiences with chickens, so I'm wondering-How old was your oldest chicken?
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    Took you long enough!

    I have some fifteen week old chicks that I have tried to handle and have them turn out nice as much as possible, and they have hated me, yet I think I've found the secret to success! A couple months ago, I got some mealworms to start a mealworm farm. It has taken a while, but we finally have...
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    Silkie hen or cockerel

    Hi again, I have a silkie that is 15 weeks old (I'm pretty sure?) and I'm wondering if Drizzle is a pullet or cockerel (:fl please a girl!). Thanks!
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    Speckled sussex or starlight green egger?

    Hi everyone, I got a couple chicks a couple months ago and one was meant to be a starlight green egger, but she looks more like our speckled sussex. Also, I think it's a pullet, but any information on that would also be great! Thanks!
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    What to do with absurd amounts of fennel

    Hi everyone! We just harvested a bunch fennel from our garden this year and are wondering if anyone had any recipes or ideas for what to do with it! Thanks, and have a good day!
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    4 day old chick almost pecked to death

    Hi everyone, so yesterday night we picked up a couple day old chick from a friend who mamma hen didn't accept and was just being pecked bare in the coop by the older hens, so he pulled her out and gave her to us. We are giving her medicated chick starter and electrolyte and vitamin water. She...
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    Homemade electrolyte?

    Hi everyone, I was just wondering if I should make some homemade electrolytes for my chickens. It is really hot where I am and I'm wondering if electrolytes might help. Thank you and all help is appreciated! P.S. If I should, does anyone have a recipe?
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    How do I get my chickens to nest in the nesting boxes?

    Hi everyone, right now I have a seven year old chickens that suddenly decided that she was going to lay eggs in the bottom of the coop. This is a problem because we have a lot of bedding in the bottom of the coop and the eggs usually end up getting buried for some time and then randomly showing...
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    How to move our cockerel

    Hi everyone, we have an eighteen week old cockerel that we need to move because he is getting quite noisy and the neighborhood doesn't allow roosters. We dropped him of at our cousins who have chickens, hoping that that would be a good forever home for him. We came back a little later to check...
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    What is going on?

    Hi everyone i have no clue what to do! We were putting some mite dust on our chickens today and we saw this! What is going on? she looks great on top but when you look under there was this! We've had chickens forever and never seen this! Is she molting? Is it lice? A mite? A disease? Someone...
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    Silkie feathers parted?

    Hi everyone! I have a question about my six week old silkie, she is my first silkie ever. Whenever her feathers get wet (water gets knocked over, spills, etc.) her hairs part and then she has this bare spot with no feathers for a while. Her feathers will unpart after a bit, but I'm still...
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    18 week old chicks laying?

    Hi everyone, currently we have five laying hens and two 18 week old pullets that should start/be laying, and we found a soft egg yesterday. Could it be our babies starting to lay or is it just the older hens starting to lay again after winter?
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    Put chicks in with cockerel?

    Hi everyone, we have a couple five week old chicks and we want to put them with the rest of the flock in a couple weeks, but we also have a fifteen week old cockerel (whom we can't keep) that is just getting his spurs (little bumps so far). We have the chicks in a bunny cage in the big chickens'...
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    Ideas about treats?

    Hi everyone, now that it's summer and getting very hot, I was wondering if anyone had some diy ice treats to help cool the chickens down when they're hot. And anything that would be apropriate for my five week old chicks as well would be great.
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    How do I get my chicks to like me?

    Hi everyone, i have a few four week old chicks that totally hate me, they won't eat out of my hands when i offer them tasty treats and any time i get within sight of them they freak out, and i don't know what to do. We have thirteen week old chicks that love me, they were eating out of my hands...
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    Cockerel?

    Hi everyone, we have a lavender orphington that we think is a cockerel but is 12 weeks and not crowing or even trying. We have seen him/her mounting and pinning down some of the other chickens and he/she is much bigger than the other chicks the same age. Is it a cockerel?
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    Pasty Butt Coming back

    Hi guys, we have two, six day old chicks who just had pasty butt two days ago and we cleaned it off with warm water and a damp paper towel, but now its back again on the same two chicks! Does anyone know what's happening and how to stop it?
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