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  1. C

    Pullet not clucking?

    Hello all! I am new here to BYC and super happy to have finally joined. I've learned so much just scrolling through the forums, so it'll be neat to finally be a part of it! Sorry if my question is in the wrong subthread, just let me know and ill move it! So around the first week June of this...
  2. XoPandora

    How to tell if a chicken will sit

    are there signs that I should see in a broody hen? I noticed one of my hens stays in a nest box with a bunch of eggs. It looks like she's been moving them around. And we have a rooster name Fabio who she's always fallowing around, but the last couple days I noticed we don't see her out much and...
  3. K

    Can a hen be constantly broody?

    Hello, I have 3 hens all 1 year old. Lacy, a bantem was broody last month. I did all the stuff to break her of it and it seemed to work and she went back to joining the other two free ranging during the day. For 3-4 weeks she was her normal self. Her "normal" is a panicky bird, not very...
  4. sandy_c

    Can your roo do this?

    okay so I accidentally flipped my sizzle frizzle bantum rooster Alberta (yes I know Alberta isn’t a boys name) on his back when he picked a big off my ankle and startled me. Here’s the odd part. He just stayed like that: it took 30 minutes and an intervention from me to get him to right himself...
  5. GottaHatchAPlan

    Is my new chicken sick or just a wuss?

    I got a new chook a few days ago and I'm not sure what to make of her behaviour. We got our new Orpington, Chestnut, as a friend to our lone Australorp, Peggy. I know we're supposed to quarantine any new chickens but we quickly learnt that Chestnut, farm-raised girl that she is, came with both...
  6. sweet6chicks

    neck "adjusting" behavior

    Hi everyone, I have a Jersey Giant who is doing some weird neck behavior. She is not a very active chicken, but I wouldn't say she is lethargic. Sometimes she does this and other times not. Also, she is often standing off by herself. Does anyone have any thoughts? Is it neurological, disease...
  7. Keylime

    Odd Bird golden laced Polish have birth defect?

    This is my first experience with Polish and also straight run. Our only Polish chick in a batch of eight chicks in the brooder (now 2.5 weeks) has been acting weird from the start (I got it when it was one day old). First it would sit down on its butt and roll over onto its back, and then...
  8. A

    Hen laying, moulting and being partially broody all at same time

    My Aseel, who is around and above a year old, is going through her moult. A light one though. She is missing feathers on both her leg joints and few other places as well. Unnoticeable without picking her up and having a deeper look. But interestingly, she hasn't stopped laying. Neither the...
  9. MrsMcnugget

    Hen laying eggs in burn barrel!! What's up with that?!

    My adopted stray hen, Mrs. Mcnugget, has been a faithful layer since she began laying for me at the end of August. She started laying in the nest we put in the cat carrier she slept in, and when her coop came she laid in the nest box first time, she's very clever. We got another chicken for her...
  10. chic_a_lay

    Strange behavior in my chicken

    I incubated some chicks in March. The last one to hatch did so a good 24 hours after the rest. It looked like a penguin, hence, the name Penn Gwen. Anyway, Penn Gwen is not like any chick I've ever seen. Not to be rude nor disrespectful. ...but, I think if she went to school she'd have to...
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