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  1. ScotianChick

    Broody went missing :( now what

    We've had a bit of a fox problem lately that we've been trying to remedy to no avail. Today as I was going to be working all day, I left my main flock in their coop and let my little flock into their pen. My little flock consisted of my first ever broody I got to adopt chicks - she's a hen...
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    To open the incubator or not open

    I had eggs set to hatch around 9 AM on Wednesday morning. Yesterday evening one hatched and spent her evening bowling over the other eggs. Another hatched this afternoon and most seem to be duds (these eggs we got from a friend so not sure on how great they are). Anyway we have one more that...
  3. ScotianChick

    A feather picking mystery

    Hi guys, I haven't posted on here in quite a while! I've got a mystery for you. I have a Buff Orpington who has had bald patches. I thought it was mostly self inflicted as her tummy was quite bald. I sewed her a shirt/saddle to remedy the situation. Underneath the fabric the feathers are...
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    Gurgling and coughing chicken

    My three year old Silverlaced Wyandotte (Zoe) was coughing and gurgling tonight when I went out to shut the coop. I looked down her throat and did not see any parasites. Her noises remind me of me when I get a chest infection. What's the deal? There are scarcely any hens in my village...
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    "Retired" chicken laying again?!

    I couldn't believe this myself... I have one Rhode Island Red left from my old flock I got several years ago. She is over 3 years old. Last year she decided to stop laying entirely and devout herself complete to being the "rooster" of the flock. Her vent got tiny, she got really thin, she...
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    Found an lost/abandoned chicken - Now what?

    My mother and I were driving to her house and on the way we found a chicken! We were very surprised, it was in front of the entry to an industrial site on a very busy road, near the ocean where the ducks hang out. There is one person on the road with chickens but it's at least a kilometre...
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    Why are the girls shy when they molt?

    I've noticed many of my girls molt at different times than others who all do it together. When a single one goes through a bad molt she is shy, doesn't want to eat with anyone else, doesn't want my attention and is terrified of the rooster. What gives? I mean I joke and say she is embarrassed...
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    Fermented Apples... uh oh... what did I do?

    So today I went out in my wood house and found that one of the bags of crab apples my husband had collected had obviously gotten moisture in it and rotted quite badly. I took the bag out to the compost heap and went about my chores. Then I went to work. It wasn't until half way through the...
  9. ScotianChick

    To cull or not to cull? - Broody Hen

    I have a SLW who goes broody ALL THE TIME. She's over two years old now. The warm weather started a couple months ago and she went broody persistently as soon as it warmed up. Well I said to my husband "if that bird goes broody one more time, that's it, she's stew". I just... feel bad doing...
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    Albino Easter Egger?

    Has anyone had an albino chick before? I just got 5 EEs and 5 Silver Spangled Hamburgs about 6 weeks ago and the little guys all have feathers now and some are even getting wattles and and the starts of red combs (must be roos!) But I have a girl that is so pale and white... her beak even looks...
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    Chick bleeding

    So I had a terrible night last night, I have the flu and threw up all night. This morning I only had enough time to change my chicks water and food before having to lay down again. When I checked this afternoon one of my ameraucana chicks was bleeding from her tail. Half of her little feathers...
  12. ScotianChick

    Dead Gene?

    My husband and I just put eggs in a brooder tonight... black Easter Eggers (in blue eggs). He read that a quarter of them will come out dead... from this gene they have... is this true?
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    Just got eggs for incubating and they're dirty

    My husband bought some fertilized (We hope) Easter Egger eggs for incubating. A lot of them are dirty and look like they've been pooped on. Should I clean them or leave them as is before putting them in the incubator?
  14. ScotianChick

    Under 1 year old and molting?

    One of my pullets who was born in February seems to be going through a small molt. Her neck feathers are falling out, her tail feathers and she is flaking skin. She does appear to have mites or anything, just molting like my older chickens. What gives? I thought they weren't supposed to do...
  15. ScotianChick

    OUCH! My hand!

    Today I was holding my runt hen. I've been making them squat a bit on the ground when I hold them because one did the rooster sort of dance around me recently. I want to make it clear I'm the roo haha. Anyway as I was holding her in front of me she got annoyed and made some noises and tried...
  16. ScotianChick

    Has anyone had a chicken like this?

    I'm starting to see similarities between one of my red sex links and a RIR I had before. I once had this RIR who I probably should have let die when she was a little chick because she was so weak but my husband and I kept at her and made her healthy. She got sick a lot, if she got worked up or...
  17. ScotianChick

    Multiple issues... are they connected?

    I am only getting one egg a day out of nine chickens. I heard them doing their eggsongs in the woods so I assumed many of them were laying there. The past two days I have locked half of the flock in the coop instead of letting them free range. I allowed two of my molting hens out and one...
  18. ScotianChick

    I officially own the most gender confused hen ever.

    Definitely. My Rhode Island Red, Alabama has decided to go broody... in September. And yesterday I took her out of the nest for a nice cool dunk in some water to cool her down. As she heads back over to the other hens I hear a weird flapping noise. I turn around and here is Alabama, soaking...
  19. ScotianChick

    Laying an egg during molt?

    My SLW hen Go-Go went broody and then directly afterward started molting. She laid an egg today! She started losing feathers about two weeks ago. Is that possible or does my chicken have a disease or something?! On the plus side, my little cousin wanted to watch one lay an egg and that one did!
  20. ScotianChick

    Arlene came back!!!!

    Arlene has been gone for about two weeks and she came back!! I couldn't believe. I came home yesterday on my lunch break which is odd for me and then I was feeding the chickens and heard a noise... it was like a chicken was screaming. She came barreling around the corner and started gorging...
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