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    Bloody Stool - Treat Them All?

    Hi All, After 7 years of chicken parenting, I happened upon our first bloody poop this morning. It is definitely not a lining slough. It was a thick blood only poop. I think I need to treat with Corrid because someone probably has something, although everyone is active and healthy looking...
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    Barred Rock Gender Puzzler - Round Two: The Plot/Legs Thicken

    I think I might have a gender confused chick on my hands. Colored like a girl, but endowed like a boy. For a recap of round one: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=145966 And now for round two. In pictures with both Kiwi and Bean, Kiwi (the confused chick) is always...
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    Stray chicken breed & gender check

    On our way to the grocery store yesterday we found a chicken walking down the street. So we live in a good sized city. Kind of random, eh? She is half the size of our EE and a third of the size of our Welsummers. She appears to be an adult bird, which is making me think that she is a Bantam...
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    Barred Rock Gender Puzzler

    I completely forgot about this board. Hi everyone. Sorry about the identical post over in the baby chick section. So she's a little thick in the legs. I am sure they are just egg birthing hips. Right? Kiwi (the bird with the thunder thighs) and Bean are the same age (< 3 weeks). And I...
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    Perhaps she just takes after my side - Barred Rock gender question

    So she's a little thick in the legs. I am sure they are just egg birthing hips. Right? Kiwi (the bird with the thunder thighs) and Bean are the same age (< 3 weeks). And I am sure the stance and comb are coincidental. Sigh. Our girl to boy ratio for sexed chicks since the beginning...
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    Hens at War

    I am so frustrated. Two out of our four hens are warring. Fred was a late addition to our flock and Hazel gave her a rough time for weeks after she first joined the family. I wouldn't say they were ever buddies, but they worked out some sort of peace treaty after awhile and had been...
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    The Wrath of Hazel

    As the result of rooster substitutions, we have 4 chickens ranging in age from 8 to 11 weeks. The oldest (EE) is our newest, the next two (Welsummers) are one week younger and the littlest one (EE) is from our first oops there's a roo incident. The top hen is one of the 10 week olds. She has...
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    An End to the Lulu/Loulou Saga

    I know this post is a total waste of space, but I want y'all to meet Fred. Loulou, who coincidentally crowed for the first time yesterday, found a new home with a family outside of city limits. Their little boy was devastated when all of the straight run chicks turned out to be girls. I told...
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    UPDATED (1st post) Last Chance Hail Mary (or Harry) - EE @ 6 weeks

    Update - Y'all guessed it. Over the weekend the chicken formerly known as Lulu sprouted a couple iridescent feathers. Not really a girly look. We will be taking him to his new home in the country this weekend where he will be tasked with overseeing a flock of hens as the lone rooster. Lucky...
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    Mr or Ms Easter Egger? - New Pictures, but same question

    After the whole Matilda really being a Matt incident, I have found myself suspiciously eying our new chicks and interrogating them about whether they prefer ESPN over HGTV. It is a problem. I am confident that Omlet is a girl, but Lulu I could use some help with. She has a bigger comb than...
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    Cold Hardiness of Marans? Recommendations in general?

    In light of Matilda being a Matt, we need a replacement bird of the same age and size of the Welsummer chicks and will be going tomorrow to pick them. We will actually be getting 2 new birds to hedge our bets against facing the prospect of only having two birds again. Matilda will be going to...
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    Welsummer Puzzler

    It's a girl! It's a girl! It's a ???! As young chicks they all very looked like sweet little Welsummer gals, but now I am starting to question whether Matilda is actually just Matt. I called the farm where she came from a week or so ago because she was lagging so far behind the bigger girls...
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