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    Hormonal feminization of a cockerel

    Interesting read. My objective is to tone down an overly frisky bantam roo. I don't want him to turn transgender, just to take the edge off. This boy is about 6 months old and he is so frisky that all the girls hate him and he attacks people, which isn't cool. Is there any chance of something...
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    Egg with no shell

    We got another one today. I think it's an older Ameraucana who has always had trouble with thin shells or they come out with weird lumps. She had a traumatic childhood: had all her tail feathers pecked off and was bleeding at the feed store where we bought her. She eventually made her way up the...
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    Egg with no shell

    Probably one of the young 6 month old layers but we also have 5 year olds. Oyster shell in their feed and a variety of organic feeds, treats, including blueberries, veggie trimmings, even leftover oysters, some free ranging. Probably just a fluke hiccup with a jammed calcium gland or...
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    Egg with no shell

    We found this egg with no shell yesterday. Dunno who layed it, found in a muddy puddle, not the nest box: https://www.instagram.com/p/BjVLAG1lEoU/
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    Hen's saddle feathers standing on end, behaving normal

    So, months later, she went a little broody one evening and the saddle feathers flattened out. She stayed in the nest box 1-1/2 hours later than everyone else, and came out cured and went to bed.
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    Hen's saddle feathers standing on end, behaving normal

    I don't recall her getting mounted recently. If they aren't laying the roo usually ignores them. Yep, they pop right back up if you smooth them down.
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    Hen's saddle feathers standing on end, behaving normal

    In the photo, you can see Mavis, the hen on the right has all her saddle feathers standing on end, like they do before shaking off but they are remaining erect and only in that area. You can compare to Sarah, normal barred rock on the left. Sarah is smaller. Mavis is behaving normally. I['m not...
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    Ruffled

    The barred rock on the right has her saddle feathers standing on end. She is behaving normally. I'm not sure if she's laying. There was another thread but no photo and the bird was lethargic, some suggested sick with a stuck egg.
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    Naked Neck/Turken Thread

    We just had a broody hatch 5 chicks and two are bearded nn's
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    CHICKEN / FOWL NAMES! To Name or Not to Name? Do You Name Yours? W/ Sally Sunshine & BantyChooks

    Debbie, after Debra Harry of 'Blondie' fame.
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    Naked Neck/Turken Thread

    Pippy.
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    CHICKEN / FOWL NAMES! To Name or Not to Name? Do You Name Yours? W/ Sally Sunshine & BantyChooks

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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    Not my invention but this is my take on a treadle feeder: The idea is to prevent small rodents from getting to the feed. Chickens hop on the platform and their weight opens the hatch, exposing the food. in reality, it's not all that effective because as you can see, the chickens shovel feed...
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    CHICKEN / FOWL NAMES! To Name or Not to Name? Do You Name Yours? W/ Sally Sunshine & BantyChooks

    Thanks! I added more details if you click on the photos, there are now comments for each one with a little more back-story (original post linked in my signature). I've been working on putting this in a blog or something, wrote a long detailed draft last year that never got fleshed out, and have...
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    CHICKEN / FOWL NAMES! To Name or Not to Name? Do You Name Yours? W/ Sally Sunshine & BantyChooks

    Ha, this is a great format for describing our flock and their personalities! Our flock started with Crazy Eight (Eightie), the Silver-laced Wyandotte, who had a crazy looking habit of shaking his head. We imagined he found himself having bad thoughts and shook his head to try and clear that up...
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    Comment by 'BayNatives' in article 'My6chicks's Chicken Coop'

    Great work! We have an below ground chicken tunnel with expanded metal top & 2x12 wood walls crossing under a major brick human path and people always laugh watching them traverse the tunnel: How did the chicken cross the road? Chicken tunnel! We also have a small coop for newcomers at night...
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    Taming Chicks

    We've got a broody hen who was the gentlest sweetheart in the flock but now that she's got chicks, she attacks us viciously. Actually she doesn't usually peck hard but she charges and it's really alarming because she's huge. I think what happened is the other hens ate one of her chicks, and...
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    Naked Neck/Turken Thread

    Electro was supposed to be Electra but he's a roo, it turns out. He gets his coloring from grandad, a Silver Laced Wyandotte. He is the biggest and the first of 4 cockrels of various breeds to begin mounting and crowing at 3-1/2 months. He has a deep resonant crow. Electro's mom Natasha...
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte personality

    We've got 4 SLW's from an aggressive SLW roo and a red Wyandotte hen who is #2 hen in our flock of 10. The three incubated 'bowlingballs' (fat birds!) were friendly when young but cautious at 6 months and the hen-raised fourth has always been skittish. They all whine in the most annoying loud...
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    Can skunks harm chickens

    The skunks seem to keep the racoons away. Our neighbors got some feral cat kittens to control the skunks and I saw the kitties chase away the skunks once. I haven't seen a single racoon in 4 years but lots of skunks, rats, cats and mice. The cats were brought in for controlling the rats. The...
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