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    Welsummer rooster's comb tuning orange

    My beautiful 6-month old Welsummer rooster had a dark red comb up until about two weeks ago. Now it is still standing beautifully but it is turning an orangish color. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Is it a problem? Thanks for your help. I'd hate to lose this bird.
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    Big butt hen

    One of our Ameraucanas has developed a very large 'sweep' (I think that's what it's called--that spot on her back just in front of her tail) in the last two days. It is twice as big as it was a day or so ago--big and standing up high. Some of the other girls have the same prominent feature but...
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    Pullet has minor scabbing around her vent

    I have searched the site for info on this but to no avail. Our seven month old NH Red pullet has a bit of a scabby-looking vent. Not all crusted up and gross like some of the pictures I've seen of gleet, but just a little bit scabby- or crusty-looking. When I say scabby, these are very small...
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    Average chicken size in the 60's, 70's was 2-1/2 pounds.

    Now I can hardly find a broiler/fryer that is less than four pounds. Back in the good ole days when I worked in my dad's butcher shop, the three-pounders and up were known as 'baking hens'. I prefer a smaller bird for broiling, but the only ones I can find are Cornishes and they cost an arm and...
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    Frozen chickens! Aerial predator??

    No, I'm not referring to processed broilers. This morning while I was watching our girls in their run they all went absolutely stock still--frozen--for over a minute. Not a twitching muscle on a single bird. I'm not exaggerating about the length of time either. I called my wife after about...
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    Off to a BLAZING start! Six days. Six eggs.

    And that's from the youngest of our six pullets, Goldie the Golden Sex Link. Is this normal or did we just get lucky? Is it possible that another of the girls is laying but not squatting? The other pullets are a week older than her at 24 weeks, but Goldie started squatting on Labor Day. She...
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    Psychologically traumatized pullets

    I had to post this because it was so funny and I've been seeing so many horrible and sad posts on BYC about people's birds dying or getting slaughtered that I thought it might be a bit of comic relief. Today I decided to remodel the coop that I recently converted from a guinea coop that was a...
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    Possum attack. Will it come back in the daytime?

    Last night a possum got into the run. Fortunately I heard one of the chickens screaming (that was an awful sound--almost like a human) and ran out and scared it back up into a tree. I live in the city with houses all around so I could not shoot it. One of the girls lost some feathers but they...
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    Maybelline's Near-Death experience

    This afternoon, the girls are out in the yard free ranging while I'm adding wire to the run. I had been using the 24 foot aluminum extension ladder but took it down and laying it on its side I leaned it against the chicken tractor. All of a sudden I hear the ladder fall. "What in the world...
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    Chicken chest-bumping

    Our girls regularly engage in a hilarious social interaction with each other that is very similar to that seen when athletes on a team score a goal or make a good play--they run up to each other, throw their heads back, and bump chests!!! This is often accompanied with feather ruffling and a...
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    When will the girls start using the roost?

    Four days ago we moved our six pullets (12 weeks old) from the tractor, where they had a pile of straw to nest in, to the new run and coop. First night we had to go in after dark and physically put them into the coop because they were huddled on the ground in the run. That worked out fine...
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    Another newbie from N.C.

    My wife and I (mostly her) just finished an eight-month experiment with guinea fowl. Turned out that they were too LOUD for our small 3-acre lot with a nearby neighborhood. So, last Saturday we purchased six pullets (two Ameraucanas, one New Hampshire Red, one Brown Leghorn, one Golden Sex Link...
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