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    Hatch fertile eggs under broody- flock of 2

    I was going to get them shipped or try to find them locally. I was thinking to do between 3 to 6 eggs.
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    Hatch fertile eggs under broody- flock of 2

    Two years ago we got four chicks and they were a small, happy backyard flock. Then a year ago one of the chickens dropped dead (Sudden chicken death syndrome?), And then this winter a hawk or eagle killed one of our chickens while they were in their run. I would like to hatch fertile eggs under...
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    chicken bully

    We have one feeder with 2 openings. I have attached some pictures of the coop. It has a wire enclosed part (where food and water is) and wood enclosed part (where nest boxes are). Thanks for any advice!!
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    chicken bully

    We have 3 chickens- have been raised from chicks together, now 1 year old. (We had 4, but our Orpington died 2 months ago. Before she died I noticed black spots on her comb, which looked like scabs from being pecked a little. I also noticed it with our Wyandotte. I didn't see anyone getting...
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    Weird looking eggs

    I got some eggs that look this this- are these worm eggs on the eggs?
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    Chicken died- please help me figure out why- Flowl pox?

    I have been watching my chickens more closely and one of them (the biggest one, the Cochin) is picking on the Wyandotte in the last post. I had suspected the Cochin was picking on the Orpington that died, but hadn't seen it in action, but now witnessed the Cochin doing it to the Wyandotte (who...
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    Chickens dying

    Thanks for the advice! I really appreciate it! The stress of all the COVID19 stuff plus losing our pet made me a little irrational!
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    Chickens dying

    If people are having poultry dying, please post here. If members with more experience can weigh in on whether more birds are dying then normal, that would be helpful. COVID-19 is a coronavirus, which can infect birds, and that would be important information to know. Don't want to alarm anyone...
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    Chicken died- please help me figure out why- Flowl pox?

    I will take a look for signs of those things today. As much as I would love to know exactly what happened, I didn’t think that sending her for autopsy made sense, so we buried her yesterday. Our family is very sad- she was our chicken with the most personality. I am worried because one of the...
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    Chicken died- please help me figure out why- Flowl pox?

    Thank you. I am so sad to think that she was getting picked on and could have been starved... but I definitely saw her eat the treats I used to get them back in the coop daily, so I have a hard time imagining she starved to death. One of the 3 remaining hens has similar (but less) black marks on...
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    Chicken died- please help me figure out why- Flowl pox?

    Our one year old buff Orphington hen just died. We found her sitting in the run with the other chickens, not moving, and then shortly thereafter she died. I tried to do an examination and didn’t notice anything abnormal, although I could really feel her breast bone- is that normal? The rest of...
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    Boy or girl?

    We got our first chickens 25 weeks ago- 4 “female” chicks- a Wyandotte, a buff Orpington, a Cochin, and a australorp. I have worried that the Orpington was a boy ever since it was a chick! It wasn’t as scared of things as the others, and now when all 3 of the others love dust baths, it never...
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    How do you keep the pine shavings in the run?

    We have a run enclosed by hardware cloth, and the hardware cloth goes down to the ground (and under the bottom of the run). The pine shavings are always ending up outside the run- whether the chickens scratch it out, or the wind blows it, I'm not sure. Any ideas? I was thinking about putting a...
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    Nesting box question

    To answer your questions, Perris, we have a Buff Orpington, a Australorp, a Cochin, and a Wyandotte. And we got our first egg today!!! No idea who laid it, and the mystery lady laid in on the ground in the middle of the coop. I put fresh pine shavings in the nest boxes a few days ago and...
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    Chicken Behavior- Dirt/Dust Baths

    Has anyone else noticed their hen walking low to the ground, then sitting, then walking normally, then low to the ground again for a while after the dust bath? I couldn't figure out what she was doing, and then finally she shook her feathers and a huge cloud of dirt came out. I think she was...
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    Nesting box question

    I got this chicken coop/run and the nesting boxes are shown here. All the other nesting boxes I see are more contained/covered... do you think the chickens will have an issue with these? I have 4 14-week old hens. Thanks!
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    Is a dust bath necessary if you have a deep litter coop?

    I have a 10'x5' walk-in coop/covered run and have pine shavings on the floor. I got a 2'x3' plastic container that was about 6" deep, and filled it with 4" of play sand and dirt. I only saw one of my 4 14 week old hens dirt bathing once, and most of the time I was scooping out pine shavings and...
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    Deep litter question

    We just got 4 chickens this year and they are about 12 weeks old. They have been out in the coop/run for about a month. I wanted to do the deep litter method and so I put down about 4 inches of pine shavings and have been using a pitch fork to turn it over. The bottom of the coop/run is hardware...
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    DECORATING FRONT OF RUN

    I planted climbing roses up the side of my run. Also good would be grapes, climbing nasturtiums. Herbs are great around the run to maybe cut down on pests.
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