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    What’s Considered to be too Aggressive Rooster Courtship?

    Our 8 month old roo has recently really picked up on courting our hens which I understand is his hormones raging and so far he’s been a pretty good gentleman. He hasn’t whooped up on our hens at all even when rejected (which 9 out of 10 times he is) he just takes it when they retaliate and he...
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    Rooster Courting Behavior

    Hi all. I’ve posted before about getting a few successfully fertilized eggs (finally!) from our flock and we finally witnessed our young roo doing the deed. He’s about 7.5 months old right now and has been part of the flock for about a month and the hens seem to have accepted him pretty well...
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    Fertilized?

    One of our 6 month old pullets laid her first egg today. Her and our roo are hardly ever apart but we have never seen him mate or even attempt to even while we’re not outside. We thought we’d check to see if he just likes to do it in private 😂. This is my second post like this lol. Just want to...
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    Fertilized or Not?

    We haven’t seen our roo mating at all yet, not sure if the hens have accepted him but we cracked open this baby. Is it fertilized or not?
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    I think we got duped

    We bought 7 supposedly 1.5 year old lavender orpington hens and were a little suspicious on a few of their ages. I know it’s difficult to tell but here’s one of our hens faces. Her face is so wrinkly compared to our pullets. Her neck has been pretty bald for about a month and I haven’t seen any...
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    Hen suddenly can’t breathe

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    Tell me what’s wrong with our nesting boxes

    This is our nesting box arrangement. It’s a roll out with outside access with turf bedding. I believe the incline is less than 3 inches and theyre about 12 inches wide except for the one on the far right, 12 inches tall, and 12 inches deep. We’ve only gotten 4 eggs at most in a day out of our 7...
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    Deworming Molting Hens

    I’ve been checking our chickens’ poop daily when I go to clean out their coop and run and so far haven’t seen evidence of any worms, but today my husband saw a large roundworm on a fresh pile in our yard this morning. Our neighbor gave us some cantaloupe scraps with flesh and seeds yesterday...
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    Sick Roo with Possible Favus

    Hi all, we just got the sweetest 6 month old roo and he came down with a bad respiratory infection the day after we got him. He’s going to be on antibiotics for about 6 days and I noticed yesterday that he may have a small spot of what looks like Favus on his comb. We have miconazole on hand but...
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    Hen or Roo?

    Hey all we just added 2 new “hens” to our flock 2 days ago and we were doing a health check on them after getting them settled for a few days. Theyre about 5 months old according to the lady that sold them to us. One of them we’re wondering if it’s a roo. She/he has some pretty pointy neck...
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    Hen Behavior

    Hi all! This is probably a dumb question but we just got these 7 lavender orpington hens about 8 days ago. They’re all about a year and a half old. They're very flighty and don’t seem to trust humans very much. When we do catch them (because we have had to for various reasons, otherwise we let...
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