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    Frost bite - treatment ?

    Minnesota resident here with the first subzero day . I noticed my hen with the largest combs having some frost bite on her already 😭. We have an open drinking water container and I added less water to it so she wouldn’t dunk her head in the water so much is there anything I can do like apply...
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    Molting and decreased activity . First time owner

    My Goldie girl is going through a molt . She was hatched January 2025 , I got her in April and saw her first “molt” getting her adult feathers . Now it’s late November and seeing signs of her specifically molting * Lots of gold feathers* and she hasn’t laid in close to a month or so which I know...
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    Broody hen gone CRAZY . Help

    My hen Goldie hatched 01/25 went broody near July 4th and now gone broody again . She went immediately to broody jail and today I removed her so I could clean the jail and she became so mean to her 3 other flock mates . Two separate times she attacked my marans . It was so bad my husband stepped...
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    Soft shell egg … normal ?

    I have a small flock of 4 hens and they’re all new layers . 2 of them (marans) haven’t started laying . But today my olive egger laid a soft shell egg. It was broken on the coop floor and not even in the nesting box. It was the 3rd egg she has laid . It has been HOT in Minnesota where I live so...
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    Our first egg - 🥚

    So excited we just got our first egg on our little backyard homestead . Our sweet girl Goldie laid it . She’s our Easter egger and I found the most perfect small blue egg in the nesting box this morning . YAY 😁 Egg is about 1.5 ounces so it’s a small egg 🪺
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    Our first egg

    So excited we just got our first egg on our little backyard homestead . Our sweet girl Goldie laid it . She’s our Easter egger and I found the most perfect small blue egg in the nesting box this morning . YAY 😁 Egg is about 1.5 ounces so it’s a small egg 🪺
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    Cute hens. First time owner

    Just love my ladies. Not sure on ages but I think they were hatched during January at different times We have Goldie the EE , Dot the midnight maran, Noodle the sapphire olive egger and Daisy the midnight maran with a gold neck splash
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    Easter egger- purchased a started pullet

    I purchased multiple pullets that have been sexed . Purchased from a local farm sale. hatched in January 2025 Just wanted to confirm this is a girl and not a cockerel. She definitely is the top and frequently is posturing and chest bumping with some of my marans . Im pretty sure it’s a hen...
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    New hen owner - twin cities Minnesota

    Hi everyone ! I am a new chicken owner. My husband and I have been wanting to get hens for the last couple years and figured why not now. We currently have four pullets that we purchased on April 4 that just started their journey with us. I have two midnight Majesty marans their names are...
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