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  1. ella2025

    Hen/pullet puffed up standing on 1 leg - hasn't layed in 1.5 months

    Is this normal behavior for an orpington in winter? Last time she layed an egg is October 7 or so, and then she stopped and never laid a single egg again. She hatched on April 1 of this year and was laying steadily since the end of august. Starting at least a month or so she's been a bit puffed...
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    I'M NEVER BOILING EGGS AGAIN!

    Today I decided to try steaming eggs for the first time instead of boiling, because I had to steam some vegetables along with them so I said why not try putting some eggs in there too. I put the eggs in when water boiled and 10 minutes later, I took them out and ice-bathed them for 5 minutes of...
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    Why are costco brown eggs so incredibly dark?

    These Costco pasture raised organic eggs literally look like maran eggs even though they're laid by RSL's. I cannot get over how gorgeous they are despite them tasting disgusting like nothing compared to my flocks eggs. The fat dark ones are the store eggs and the skinny blue and brown ones are...
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    Silkie mix chick with silkie type wings?

    This is Beth. And this is Mom. She is a hatchery silkie. This is Dad, he is a splash am. He is bearded but his beard just gets plucked off every once in a while. So my question is, Beth seems to have the frayed silkie wing feathers coming in, at 1.5 weeks old. From what I've learned, she...
  5. ella2025

    Backyard Animals

    So many animals roam my 2 acre lot. We have a camera that records motion and we see interesting stuff every day. This thread is to keep track of and share all the animals. Feel free to post some interesting pictures of your backyard creatures if you have some! First, here is a gang of raccoons.
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    Northern Fowl Mites on wild turkeys!!!

    Some wild turkeys love hanging out in my backyard, walking around, pecking, scratching, eating bugs. Sometimes they get very close to the chickens, but they always just ignore each other and don't get super close. I've always seen them as beneficial for my yard and didn't shoo them away. Today I...
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    I assume Saffron is a he?

    Saffron the Easter Egger was hatched just this Saturday, and she (he?) is only 3 days old. Her comb is already showing little 'rows?' peas? and looking a little more raised than any pea comb chick I've ever raised. It's funny at 3 days old how nice her comb looks. I'm 90% sure she is a Cockerel...
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    Extremely slow feathering Rhode Island red pullet

    Here is Red. She is a Rhode Island red and she is 14 1/2 weeks old in this photo. Her feathers have always been painfully slowly growing ever since birth, even much slower than the brahmas and silkies I've raised. She still looks super scruffy and weird. At this age all her 3 siblings are super...
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    Ameraucana and silkie beards being plucked bald

    Yesterday, while it was rainy and wet, I noticed 2 round bald spots on the sides of my ameraucana roosters beard. For contex he is 26 weeks old. Today he went full bald (still rainy today) and I found my other bearded bird, Cindy the silkie, 25 weeks old, with the exact same round bald spots on...
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    Help! My cockerel suddenly started balding.

    Today on this wet rainy day, I came into he chicken coop to see my ameraucana rooster with a big pale bald spot on his beard. Actually, it's more like 2, one on his right side and one under his beak. Just yesterday when I came into the coop he was completely normal. (Last photo is from...
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    2 large raccoons spotted in yard last night. Improvement suggestions greatly appreciated.

    Yesterday, for the first time, we installed cameras on all 4 sides of our house, which allows us to see whenever there's motion in our yard. On that same night, at 3 am, 2 fat raccoons were spotted confidently waddling by the side of our yard, 50 or so yards away from the coop. I'm scared...
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    Is my rooster a Purebred Ameraucana? Once again

    Here is moony. I have made another thread about him before, but I'm checking again just for fun since he's grown a bit. He was hatched in an egg by someone else who rehome him to me. I've had mixed responses. Some said that he does look like a splash ameraucana, others say his coloring is too...
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    Ella2025's Experiment Broody Hen Hatch-A-Long

    Hi!!! I'm so excited to be writing this. This is my first ever Hatch-A-Long, and also my FIRST EVER HATCH too! My BR Bippy has always acted broody in the hours leading up to her laying her egg. She does the same thing every day: plop down on the nest and push eggs under her and do all things...
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    If you're scared of free ranging chickens, GO FOR IT!

    Hi peeps! I suck at writing, and don't know how to start, but here's my free ranging "story". I got my first chicks from April 2 onwards. I now have some 21 week olds, some 19, some 10 week olds. Ive always been really afraid of losing my chickens to predators because I do have a lot of hawks...
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    Chicks a lot smaller than usual?

    Here are : red, a rir and the smallest of the group. Her featering has always been extremely slow for some reason. Even at 9 weeks and 3 days she still looks like she should be 5 weeks old. Still barely any tail and patchy looking. Olive, an olive egger labeled as a black sex link. Amber, an...
  16. ella2025

    19 week old Cockerel sudden death

    I just found Carlos, my 19 week old silkie rooster lying dead in the middle of the chicken run. I was in the chicken coop hanging out with the chickens just hours before, at around 3. He was ALWAYS healthy and active, with no signs of any of the common chicken Illnesses, even hours before his...
  17. ella2025

    Tiny white bugs crawling on chick

    I noticed these white bugs on my 7-8week olds a few days ago. There were very few of them and they were barely noticeable. I went to TSC and bought some diatomaceous earth and Manna Pro Poultry Protector. I used it twice or 3 time dove the course of 5 days and the "mites" seemed to dissapear for...
  18. ella2025

    First egg!

    Finally, we got our FIRST. EVER. EGG (s)! Today I came into my chicken coop to find 2 pullet eggs next to the fake egg I put a few days ago! Of course, the chicken just HAD to lay the first egg on the ONE day I didn't check for an egg, which was yesterday. I never heard an egg song, how dare...
  19. ella2025

    Rooster ear bleeding and flesh exposed

    Hi all, This is Fernando. The past week in his life has been rough. We introduced a new rooster, who is very sweet and all, but Fernando, as the former top rooster, needs to keep his place in the pecking order. They've been fighting quite a lot and Fernando doesn't accept defeat. 2 days ago I...
  20. ella2025

    How old is this Cockerel?

    I'm not sure where to put this thread so I'll just post it in my favorite section. Here is my new rooster. No name yet. He is a splash Ameraucana (or at least I and a few other users think so). I got him from a guy looking to rehome last week. The guy told me that he started crowing about 2-3...
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