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    Moving with chickens to a new state

    I have have chicken for 6 years. I currently have a dozen. I bought various breeds so that when I get eggs that are various colors. My family intends moving it Idaho we have a two year plan. We have not decided where in that state yet. I would like to own chickens when I move. I have no clue...
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    Keeping scrub jays out of coop.

    My hens are free range and my coop is from a converted pickup shell. A scrub jay mating pair that has a nest in the yard. I hear the chicks in the nest in the tree. The nesting pair of Scrub Jays get into the coop, and destroy most of the eggs most days. I have tried curtains in the door of...
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    New rollout nest design Picture heavy-edited 1/21

    Thank you for sharing this. I need to know what the material is that you used as the "mat" of the nesting box. I am not sure if a scrub jay or one of my hens are getting to the eggs so I am planning to make this. When I go looking for the mat material what do I look for. Thanks.
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    Chicken behavior

    My chickens get noisy on the days the garbage gets collected. I think it is the vibration. Since we have had water restrictions we have not had the sprinklers on in the morning. We are now off restrictions and my neighbor waters her back garden at the same time the chickens wake up, (I guess...
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    Easter Egger club!

    I have a mixed backyard flock of 10 hens and my white Easter Egger Hen is the protector of the flock- I have 2 EE, the other two are a wheaten color. The white EE is the loudest. In one of the recent storms two of my neighbors trees fell into our yard and broke the common fence between our...
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    What do you have in your flock?

    We just added 2 Barnevelder chicks to my flock. I already have: Buff Orpingtons (3) Easter Eggers (3) Wyandottes (1) Maran (1) Olive Egger (1) Rhode Island Red (1) I am trying to get a daily colorful egg collection.
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    Comment by 'sunshynertc' in article 'Barnevelders 4'

    Is there a reliable way to tell male chickens from females? I have two chicks Barnevelder chicks that are a few days old and I am not all that familiar with this breed.
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    When I bought my pullet a few weeks ago I noticed that she was holding her neck in a strange position. I thought maybe it is because she was adapting to her new surroundings. She then seemed to be off balance and the hens pecked at her. She kept her eye closed and I thought her neck issue was...
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    Injured pullet

    My two pullets are about 10 weeks old and I thought they were old enough to go in with the hens. One of them has an eye injury and has blood on her beak. I removed both the pullets from the older hens and treated the injury. I will have to wait until morning to see how she is. All the other...
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    Long weekend and eggs

    I have 10 hens that are laying on a regular basis. I have it set up that they can have enough food for 4 days and water enough for a week. I have never left then for more than 2 days. I am going away for 3 days. The temperature is suppose to be 97 degrees one of the days we will be gone...
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    What do you have in your flock?

    I currently have Olive Eggers Easter Eggers Buff Orpingtons Rhode Island Red Wyandottes and One Maran.
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    Two new pullets

    I have 10 hens who are all about a year old. I have acquired two pullets who are 6 and 9 weeks old. I have the two pullets together separate . Do I keep them together even after the older one is laying and then introduce them together to the older hens? The pullets are a black copper Maran...
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    Broodiness of Olive eggers

    I have an olive egger who is less than a year old. She has gone broody 3 times since January. Are olive eggers prone to broodiness?
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    Chicken that looks like it has no balance

    I looked for injuries but I could not find any. How do I check her ears? Her feet are curled in as if they are not working so she is just sitting in the cage. Her mouth seems dry, she looks like she is struggling to breath since her mouth is open all the time. I have her in the cover back...
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    Chicken that looks like it has no balance

    Hi, One of my year old hens was laying in the backyard and looks like it has no sense of balance. She was sitting with her mouth open. I gave her some liquid, and she seems to get some more balance back. My hens are kind of free range in that they have half of the back yard to run around...
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    Predator eating the eggs

    I am not sure what predator is eating the eggs in my coop. I suspect a rat as I found a dead one in the yard this weekend. If it is a rat how do I get get rid of the rats without harming the chicken? There are also cats in the neighborhood. I don't think it is the cats getting to the eggs...
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    Restless hens

    My hens were all restless and noisy this morning. Their cries were different to the "I just laid an egg" cry. They are free range. I went to check up on the hens and found all the eggs out of the nest and broken and the nesting box toppled over. I had checked the hens about 40 minutes...
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    Question about rats and chickens

    I found a dead rat outside of the area that my hens are in. Its nose was all bloody. I do not have cats or dogs. I do not have rat poisoning or anything like that. I did not even know I had a rat issue. If there is one rat, would there be more? Since I am in California and we are in...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    I had this problem with my hen. It was the first time I had a broody hen so I did not have experience. She got off the eggs and they never developed into chicks. On day 30 I went to the feed store and got some day old chicks and slipped them under her. She was a good mother hen to the day...
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    Easter Egger lays white egg

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