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    Do I have a picker or more bugs?!

    I have something going on that’s puzzling me. I have 10 chickens. 4 that are April/May hatch date and have been laying. In the summer they had lice or mites and I treated them with permethrin and cleaned the coup really well and they seemed to be better. About a month later, the 4 layers...
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    Lice? Mites? Molting?!

    I’m at a complete loss. About 7 weeks ago I finally realized that the chicken that was picking at the base of her tail and made herself bald, had some sort of bugs. Looked like mites or lice. Treated the whole flock with permethrin while I waited on the Elector PSP. Gutted and cleaned the coop...
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    Permethrin and Elector PSP??

    I guess I have a bug problem and I want them gone like yesterday. I have one chicken that started picking out her feathers at the base of her tail about a week ago. I checked her right when I saw it and found nothing so I put peck no more on her. Over the next couple of days she pecked herself...
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    When Can They Go Outside?

    I have 9 baby chicks that are 3 weeks old yesterday. They are like 3/4 feathered but they are quickly outgrowing the brooder. When can I safely put them outside in their sectioned off part of the run? Our lows the next 10 days don’t get below 68 and we are high 70s to low 90s. We are expecting...
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    Desert Lavender (Hyptis emoryi)

    I couldn’t find an appropriate thread topic to ask this under, so sorry if this is the wrong one. I want to plant some desert lavender around my run. I googled if it was safe for chickens (I know regular lavender is) but could only find that it’s “ok” but to be used sparingly? Does anyone know...
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    2 Soft Shell Eggs in a Row?!

    I have a sapphire gem that just started laying July 30th. First egg was to be expected, thinner shelled and small. She then went on to lay every other day for a week. Small beautiful, hard shelled eggs. She took off a couple days then started laying again. Beautiful, hard shelled eggs. This...
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    New Chicks Have Arrived!! Yellow is the extra?

    My Ideal order arrived today! And they added an extra chick! I know there’s NO WAY to tell what breed it is right now but I wanted to see if everyone agrees that the extra one is the yellow baby. I ordered 4 Easter Eggers, 2 Olive Eggers, 1 Black Star and 1 Brown Leghorn.
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    Wobbly 5 Week Old Chick

    I have 4, 5 week old Brown Leghorn chicks that until yesterday, were completely healthy. They all ran around like crazy, ate and drank great, dust bathed, etc. Well yesterday evening I noticed one of them was wobbly on her feet. Kind of sitting on her hocks more and moving her head a little...
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    Egg with No Red Comb?

    I searched the forums and couldn’t find the answer to my question… I have a new layer. She’s laid 4 eggs her first 8 days. All in the laying boxes. They have all been small, to be expected, but the last 2 have been a little bigger and hard beautiful shells. She seems to lay very late morning to...
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    Sapphire Gem Egg or…?

    I have what was sold to me as a Sapphire Olive Egger but since she doesn’t have a crest I was thinking she’s a Sapphire Gem. I got her with another OE/Gem and 2 Cream Legbars. All 16 weeks today. My lighter OE/Gem is closest to lay with big red comb/wattles, squatting and roaming the nesting...
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    When Can You Separate Broodermates

    I tried to find the answer to this before I made a post and was unsuccessful. I have 4 chicks I purchased together (store minimums, which I totally get) but I am only keeping 2 of them. When is it ok to sell the other 2? They are 4 week old Brown Leghorns. Should I wait until they are 6 or 8...
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    What Breed (or mix of breed) is this??

    My feed store as tons of chicks 1-2.5 months old and they’re all mixed up. The staff doesn’t really commit to knowing the breeds (just in case they’re wrong.) Does anyone know what this one could be? I’ve seen the black feathers, black skin before but never with a crest?
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    Cream Legbar Mix?

    I picked up a couple new chicks last week. The feed store said they were 1.5-2.5 months old. I picked one that looked identical to my CLs…or so I thought. I just notice her legs are more white than my old CLs whose legs have been yellow since the start. I’m sure she’s a mix, which is fine, but...
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    Rainbow Chicks-Tucson, AZ

    I have 2, 11 week old chicks for sale. They were sold to me as hatchery’s choice but as they’ve grown, I really think they are Rainbows from Hoovers. Very good brown layers. They are already so big and according to Hoover’s website, they get to 7-8lbs. Definitely a dual purpose bird. My run just...
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    What kind of mix is she?

    I got a couple more babies to add to our flock. One is identical to my 2 cream legbars so I know what she is. But this one is clearly a mix. Was hoping a color layer but I don’t even know what she (hopefully “she” cause she was sold as a pullet lol) is mixed with. Any ideas? The feed store said...
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    Cackle F2 Olive Egger

    I’ve been perusing a couple hatchery sites and am very intrigued by the F2 Olive Egger from Cackle. They only really give a description of the color of the egg, not frequency of laying or temperament of the bird. Has anyone purchased these from them and can give some insight?
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    Cream Legbar Comb

    So I know my girls are 4+ weeks away from laying but I’m so curious what their combs will look like when they’re getting close? I’ve seen other cream legbars that have HUGE floppy combs that almost cover their eyes. (Those ones also have different feather colors than mine too which I think is...
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    Are these all roos!?

    I already posted about these babes and there’s still no definitive conclusion on breed (prob barnyard mix even though they weren’t supposed to be) but in the last week, the two light ones’ combs have pinked up like crazy! And I was told the red one was a roo already. The light ones are 9 weeks...
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    Brown Leghorn Chicks

    I fell victim to TSC 50% off chicks sale today when I just went for some soil 🤦🏻‍♀️ I got 4 brown leghorns that said they were sexed but I’m reading online that they aren’t really a sexable chick? Has anyone had luck with Brown leghorns really being pullets or is it more of a 50/50 shot?
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    Cream Legbar or…??

    I bought 4 chicks back in April from my feed store and 2 of them were supposed to be Welbars. They got a little Mohawk, now turned afro, and I just assumed they were actually cream legbars and the store just got them mixed up. Well I’ve been reading posts and looking at pics on here and they...
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