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    What is this?!

    Found this in the coop this morning down in a pile of pooh. Didn't smell, looks and feels like boiled chicken, is hollow on the inside and full of liquid.
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    Permethrin 10 Withdrawal

    Our birds picked up lice at the fair last year. Apparently we didn't get rid of them all so we're retreating now. Can anyone remind me about Permethrin 10: 1. What is the egg withdrawal period? 2. When is the second dose due? 3. Since we have twice the flock size can I just make a dip and dunk...
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    Egg color?

    My maran just laid her first egg and it wasn't exactly what I expected. I know their egg colors can vary, but I'm curious if there's any chance yet her eggs will get darker or if they'll stay this light.:( These are what we hatched her from. This is what she's laid.
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    Need help sexing marans please

    A photo of her alone.
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    Need help sexing marans please

    We hatched since lovely marans of mixed colors and we end up with four lovely birds. There is a blue we are confident is a hen, two blue Copper roos and one little one we can't quite decide on. I assume the two in the back are both roos, feont right a hen, and we think the front left chicken...
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    Found a white egg in my coop of blue layers.

    Found this little white oddity in my coop yesterday. We have three eggers in their third laying season, and six Araucanas in there first. I'm curious if the white egg is maybe one of the older girls loosing some color, I know that the brown egg layers can lose color as they get older but I...
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    Is there such a thing as a barred rock easter egger?

    It was most definitely a barred rock roo! And after a lot of tinkering in our own backyard with EEs and Araucanas over the last two years we've gotten pretty good at spotting the roos in a hatch. Funny how a lot of it just kind of boils down to experience more so than definable guidelines when...
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    What is going on with this guy??

    Ha! That's what I told the old man as well!
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    What is going on with this guy??

    He has a beak, and everything else he is supposed to....except feathers lol. I'm not sure if you can see clearly enough in this photo but all he was born with were the little dark colored hairs sticking up on his back. He appears to be slowly getting in his big boy feathers now just fine...
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    What is going on with this guy??

    I'm honestly not even sure of the best place to post this. We have this araucana guy, he was hatched by his mom and kicked out of the nest. His siblings look normal, he didn't have any feathers when I found him....he's very wirey and rough feeling and it almost looks like he has hairs sticking...
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    Orpington gone broody?

    I appreciate the advice, but she's the only "heavy" bird we have and its working for us. It does get cold in NC at night and every night the roost beside the heater is crowded with chickens trying to be the closest one to it. I don't NEED a lot of things but that doesn't mean I don't like them. ;)
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    Orpington gone broody?

    Husband installed the heat lamp when he built the coop, we only run it at night in the winter. Our chickens are a bit spoiled lol! Thanks for the help, we do have a roo. He's an EE and half the eggs Tweety is hoarding are from EE hens. Ought to be interesting what the others turn out looking...
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    Orpington gone broody?

    We have an Orpingtin hen, I believe she was hatched in february, who has suddenly decided to turn broody. Last night when we checked on her she had four eggs, she roamed outside with the rest of the flock most of the day and I just noticed she has returned to the nest box and now has at least...
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    Bare Butts???

    That's what I thought. We DE'd everything last night, hopefully they feel better soon. Poor girls, I feel so bad for them.
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    Bare Butts???

    Oooooooor is it possible they've gotten broody? Is this the area they'd be pulling from if they were broody?
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    Bare Butts???

    We checked two of them and don't see any sign of mites or anything else other than lack of feathers. Our roo and the rest of the hens are still fully feathered. Could it possibly be due the insanely hot few days we've had, do they ever pull feathers to cope with heat?
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    Bare Butts???

    They are only 8 months old, I was under the impression that birds wouldn't molt that early? Also, I thought they began molting top to bottom not bottom up? Just going off what I've read.
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    Bare Butts???

    I just cleaned the coop Sunday and saw no signs of any issues with the coop, run or birds. Today when I let them out I found my Buff, three Rhode Island Reds and an Easter Egger with bare...ummm....underbutts? I know we have a pecker in the flock because two of my EE's have bare backs but...
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    Comment by 'Slinkee' in article 'Fayetteville North Carolina Chicken Ordinance'

    You're quite welcome, I'm glad to hear that's not something the city still has in the works. Would hate to get rid of any of our little girls!
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    Hen laying oblong shaped eggs

    Several of ours had very oblong eggs when they first started but they are pretty regular now.
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