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    Breed identification

    Hello, Hoping I can get some views from this knowledgeable community. I got this baby chick the day she was born, April 12, and she was sold to me as a blue laced red Wyandotte. Now that she is 11 weeks old, she’s looking more like a golden laced Wyandotte to me-thoughts? One of the photos I’ve...
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    FBCM - hoping for a hen 🤞🤞🤞

    Hi All, Here are some pics of my 19 day old French black copper marans, whom I’ve named Gigi. Today I noticed what look like waddles coming in, has anyone heard of a hen having waddles come in early??? This is the second FBCM chick I’ve gotten as the first one died from failure to thrive and I...
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    Separate food for separate age groups

    Hi all, just curious how do people advise handling food when integrating young pullets into a flock of adults? I have a two young chicks (one hatched 4/12, one hatched 4/23), 5 adult hens (around 18-22 months old), and a treadle feeder that can only have pellets in it. I know the chicks/pullets...
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    Help, very slow weight gain

    Hi, I got two baby chicks approximately one week ago (Sat 4/12), both hatched that morning. Millie, the blue laced red Wyandotte, weighs 79 grams today but Yuki, the French black copper marans, only weighs 54 grams. Yesterday she weighed in at 55 grams. The previous three days she was 49 grams...
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    Help . . . Rats!

    Hello, Hoping someone here can help me. I have a coop and a run that I built with hardware cloth running the perimeter of the area (one exception is that I couldn’t run hardware cloth under the stairs, but it’s running underneath both sides of the stairs, just not the front). The cloth is...
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    Can a hen raise (sit on, keep warm, etc) new hatchlings from a hatchery?

    Hi All, I have ordered two new chicks from a local hatchery to be picked up in early April (a French black copper maran and a blue laced red Wyandotte). I’m wondering if one of my current hens can do the job of sitting on the day old chicks to keep them warm and see to it that they eat, drink...
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    Enlarged heart meds? And looking for poop pic chart

    Hi All, I’m just wondering if anyone has had a chicken diagnosed with any heart condition and, if so, what meds you gave them? Also, I know I’ve seen a link to photo chart of normal/abnormal chicken poop on backyard chickens.com but, of course, now I can’t find it. If anyone has that can you...
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    How to keep a sick chicken from starving to death?

    Hello, I’ve been dealing with a sick chicken-cause basically unknown (apparently she has an enlarged heart and very dense items in her gut, which could be metal). I’ve been giving her an epsom salt flush and also injecting Gatorade into her mouth (hopefully not aspirating her), but I can’t seem...
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    Help: Listing chicken, wings down, tail down, laying on floor

    Good morning, I woke up this morning to one of my chickens (Edith) laying on the floor of the coop. There was some diarrhea on the poop boards and I fear it’s from her. Her wings are out and down (and her tail is down), and she keeps laying down. My other chicken, Tammy, is the one I’ve been...
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    Continued blood in stool

    Hi All, I have a chicken who continues to have blood in her stool 6 days after Corid treated water and a 5 day treatment of dewormer. She’s not a big eater/drinker so I have been filling a syringe with the Corid treated water and administering it down her throat every other day. She does drink...
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    Blood in stool

    Good Morning, I’m wondering if anyone can help me out with thoughts/suggestions. Two months ago I took in a chicken (Tammy) from cousin’s flock that was being bullied mercilessly. I quarantined her for a month then started incorporating her into my flock (5 chickens, around 14 months old, all...
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    Help! New hen is a bully!!!

    Hi all, About a month ago, my cousin rehomed one of her 18 month old prairie blue bell hens with me since the hen was being bullied by her flock and had become a favorite of the two roosters so had numerous injuries and feathers missing. She was concerned the poor thing wouldn’t survive the...
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    Quick question about quarantine

    Hi All, My cousin had to rehome her favorite chicken that was being bullied by her flock. I took her in and set up living quarters in my shed, around 30 feet downwind of my flock of five hens. They cannot see each other and I have been maintaining strict quarantine measures since she came to me...
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    Introducing a new single hen to flock

    Hi, My cousin has to rehome her favorite hen as the poor thing is being terrorized by her flock and has asked me to take her. My cousins flock is around 20 hens and 2 roosters, my flock is only 5 (very fat, very spoiled) hens. I have figured out a solution for my run (which is not huge, 6 feet...
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    Dirty/missing feathers around comb

    Hello, hoping someone here has experience with this. I have a 14 month buff Orpington hen. I came home from a three day vacation to find the top of her head around her comb looking odd. It appears to be very dirty or missing feathers. Her poop looks normal, her body feels normal, she’s acting...
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    Sleeping standing up

    Quick question to the chicken community: do any other chickens (besides mine) spend a lot of time standing up overnight? I have a camera in the coop (because I’m obsessed with them) and I can check them any time in the middle of the night and, inevitably, one or more are standing up. Does anyone...
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    Day ten, young hen still not laying

    Hi All, It is day ten and my EE, who started laying eggs on 2/11, is on day ten without laying. I really am getting concerned. We have plenty of sunlight, she’s not molting, and seems happy and healthy. She’s eating, and drinking, and pooping. But ten days without laying an egg after she laid...
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    Hen stopped laying-help

    Hello, Hoping someone here can help. My EE has been laying sing 2/11. She was a pretty consistent layer, 5-6 days on, 1 day off. She stopped laying 4 days ago. I have scoured the run and the coop-no eggs and no sign of eggs. I have a camera in there and can watch the nesting box. She’ll go...
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    First eggs, but no oyster shells

    Hi All, My EE laid her first eggs (one yesterday and one today) and I found them in a corner this evening. I had not been giving any of my girls oyster shells or laying feed because none of them have been laying. Now that Agatha is laying, I will try to feed her some oyster shell tomorrow...
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    Possible sick chicken; very sleepy

    Hi all, I’m new to raising chickens and I have a 21 week old silver laced Wyandotte pullet that has been sleepy all day, and her tail is droopy.I brought a bowl of fermented feed out and the other 4 rushed over and started gobbling. She always hung back, because she’s shy of humans or anything...
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