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  1. crunchygranola

    What are your guys’s favorite way to keep your chickens cool in the summer?

    A massive heatwave is going through Pennsylvania with nasty heats I’ve barely seen… PA is the one state I’ve been in that has had the most inconsistent weather— I mean, you get all four seasons in one day. With that being said, what are some of your guys’ favorite ways to keep your chickens...
  2. MamaPoult

    How do I break a broody?!

    Hey BYC people! I was hoping you all could help me out with something. So my nice Australorp hen, Elizabeth, has been broody for about 2-3 weeks now. She stays in the box all day and is pulling her belly feathers out too now. Our season is closing in here to it is not possible to let her...
  3. crunchygranola

    Chicken ICU?

    Had a poor girl pass out from the heat though the rest of her flock handled it very well. I immediately brought her inside after submerged her body in cold water for a few minutes. Got her comfortable freezing water and frozen fruit, two mini fans set up, and cold compresses around her. She...
  4. If it fits, it sits.

    If it fits, it sits.

    Fresh dust bath. Party on!
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  5. Apparently there was a line for the dust bath

    Apparently there was a line for the dust bath

    All chickens must fit in 1 dust bath. At one time. ALL of them.
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  6. crunchygranola

    My chickens laid their first egg!!

    I’m just so excited that I had to share! I’ve raised this chicks from two day old babies and finally, after all the hard work and turmoil and money well spent, I finally got my first egg! Its little and just so cute— I’m ecstatic! So proud of my girls! 🥰 (brown egg is a large-sized egg from...
  7. GreatLakesFungi

    Introduction of 8 Pullets to a Mature Rooster (w/ no flock)

    Hello all, I am seeking help and advice on how and when to properly introduce my mature, free range rooster (more info in this thread on how we "accidentally" acquired him) to young hens (currently pullets), currently housed in an enclosure/coop. Please bear with me, as I know this is a long...
  8. V

    Does anyone know the gender of this chicken? :)

    Hi there! Does anyone know if this chicken might be a hen or rooster? And possible breed. Big changes in appearance each week :). Thanks so much!
  9. chicken mother

    Chickens dying of old age or illness?

    My family member bought like 10 chickens from some guy online. They were delivered to us and they were all low energy, pale a droopy combs. There are four left and this is the condition they’re in right now. The rest of them died. Is this an illness I can treat or did we get old dying hens? The...
  10. meditationcheetah

    Odd bumps & a lot of eggs!

    So, today me and my boyfriend went to collect the eggs laid by our 3 hens. We hadn’t collected eggs since Monday, yet there were 11 eggs!! I don't think that's quite abnormal, but then we look at one of the eggs and it had really weird bumps on it that we had never seen before. If anyone knows...
  11. D

    Flock Building

    Our Ancona drakes have been really into our Black Swedish ladies…to the point that they will pursue them through the whole garden. It’s happened a few times that one of the ladies will be separated from the flock and I recently spied one who had been sitting alone for quite a long time and was...
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  12. M

    Hens stopped laying eggs in the box

    Hello friends, one of our hens died in a previously very popular nesting box a few months ago. Ever since all our hens have refused to lay eggs in there. We thoroughly cleaned the box multiple times but they won’t go in it. Instead they all squeeze into the remaining two nesting boxes...
  13. Chicken6000

    Rooster acting weird towards hen?

    So lately all of the hens were broody, I know crazy... They all broke from their broody phase after not hatching any eggs (we used fakes since they were all broody, after they all left their nesting boxes we noticed that the rooster was a little overwhelmed with all the hens back and active, I'm...
  14. Chickenlady loves life

    4 ready-to-lay pullets - Santa Clara, CA

    I’ve got 4 ready-to-lay pullets that I’d love to keep, but we just have too many right now. That chicken math is no joke. I’m looking for a new home for them in the bay area. I’m at the Santa Clara / Sunnyvale border in California. They hatched on January 6th, so as of posting they’re 17-1/2...
  15. C

    Odd Integration Situation, advice needed 💜

    Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and my family just got our first flock of chickens! I'm really excited but it's an odd situation. Basically a family friend had to give away four Silkie hens due to city regulations and we were able to take them in. She also went to a poultry swapand surprised...
  16. Lazy Farmer

    My Tree Top Chicken. Breed Unknown.

    Hello! :frow I have a story, Question & Photos. :oldStory- Once upon a time (2 yrs ago), this Hen randomly appears on our farm. Out of the blue without notice, we have a small breed chicken roaming the farm. It was behaving feral and very nervous & un-trusting to any human or to any of our...
  17. australorpluvr

    Bloody Combs and Tattered Feathers

    I have a flock of 8 australorps and 2 of them now have bloody combs. I believe it is due to bullying by several members of the flock. I took the two victims and separated them from the rest for a night and treated their combs per the instruction of an online vet. I noticed today when I put them...
  18. Grateful Dad

    My henhouse

    Hi, We have a friend who needed to re-home her hens, so we said yes. She gave us 18 hens a run and a coop, which was far too small. We spent under $300 building this house. We had some recycled 2x4 pine. I'm terrible at making posts but I wanted to show you can build a henhouse for a few hundred...
  19. N

    Vaccinating Adult Chickens with Mereks??

    Hi, recently one of my 2 year old hens passed away after a necropsy and testing another hen. Both tests show that have/had mereks disease. I know most people typically vaccinate chicks as soon as possible, unfortunately in this case I do not believe they were vaccinated. I’ve seen a lot of back...
  20. T

    Grow with us! Week by Week Progression of Straight Run Chicks.

    Howdy! I purchased 5 straight run chicks from Alchemist Farms. I thought it would be fun to do a week by week progression of these chicks, while guessing Roos/Hens. I'll be starting this progression at Week 2 and posting an update once a week. Type your guesses! I honestly have no idea but am...
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    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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