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I bought a sexed Buff Brahma hen who I am now thinking may be a male? Fuzz (his/her name) is confusing me a lot. Fuzz is about six months old, hasn’t laid any eggs, and we haven’t heard any crowing. But Fuzz also has prominent saddle feathers and hackle feathers.
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We went away for the holiday and when we returned we saw one of our hens had a decently deep wound next to her ear. Based on the shape of the cut we’re guessing someone pecked her pretty bad.
Originally it was very swollen and the lower part of her earlobe was dark purple like it...
This is a long post but I would love some advice as I’ve found myself in a cold wet mousey dilemma. Winter has set in and brought snow with it. Something (maybe my chickens tracking in snow mixed with the continual snow falling) is causing the coop to get very moist. We use straw bedding because...
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I have a young LGD who is about six months old. He’s been progressing pretty well with poultry training, but now that winter has set in all my chickens are staying in their coop and out of the snow so he rarely sees them. Does anyone have advice on how to continue training...
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I’ve had terrible luck with the sexed hens I’ve bought this year and now have way too many roosters so I need to get rid of my newest additions. I have two 8 week old male Porcelain Belgian Bearded d’Uccle Bantams. Totally free to anyone who wants them. They are healthy and...
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I have a young rooster who just started crowing about a week or two ago. He has always been very timid and well behaved, but overnight he completely changed. He has started trying to breed the hens, which I understand involves the rooster pulling at their feathers when mounting, but...
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I have three hens who we treated for Bumblefoot a while back. Their scabs are almost fully healed and falling off, but just not quite there yet. My husband will be going out of town for 10 days and I don’t think I can change the bandages myself. Any advice?
For context:
They have...
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I have a Smokey Pearl hen who is about a year old. She seems to be losing a lot of weight. Someone in our flock isn’t laying eggs, but I can’t tell if it’s her. Other than that she seems totally healthy. She has a good appetite, is active, bright red comb and wattle, no signs of...
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We have several chickens who are recovering from Bumblefoot. They are almost fully healed - they have scabs that are almost ready to fall off. But yesterday we noticed that they have some irritation on their leg scales where the vet wrap is. I don’t think they are ready to be without...
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I have an 8 week old Great Pyrenees I just recently brought home to act as a LGD for our growing flock of chickens (currently about 20).
I am following the recommendations I read and keeping him in a bonding pen next to the chickens and taking him out for supervised socialization...