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We've got a hen we've had separated from the main flock trying to give her a chance to regrow her feathers.
We've made a interesting discovery though, other than her he's feather's, she's picking them herself off of her shoulders, breast, and just above her...
I was trying to search for some answers on how to feed chickens "brood comb", but as. 'Brood' and 'comb' are already chicken related words the search engines are getting all mixed up.
A friend of ours keeps bees, we keep chickens, and we try to symbiotically benefit each other as much as...
Our Ameracaunas beards get dirty when they eat. We feed them pellets that we've soaked first so they're soft. We have a mixed flock and throughout the day we notice the girls all cleaning each others faces, however some of our Ameracauna's beards are getting plucked off in the cleaning process...
Our flock of 21 has shrunk down to 18.
We have a mixed flock of Buff Orpingtons, Black Australorps, Ameracaunas, and Buff Orpington x Black Australorps.
They consist of three generations of chickens.
The Orpingtons being Grandmas to our youngest crossed chicks. With the crossed chicks'...
Sometimes the flock seems to do great for a while and then sometimes it seems that a whole slew of things start going wonky for no apparent reason. One of the things we're trying to sort out now is a micro-managing hen. She's not at the top of our pecking order, however she has given herself the...
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We've got a little more room in our flock and are looking to add 6-7 more females.
We'd like to have a chocolate egg layer or two, then focusing on heavy layers.
If anyone out there has any for sale we'd love to know! We're in the northeast USA.
Our local stores just don't have...
Update on Lottie!
We lost her this afternoon.
What ever happened it was fatal. She had spent yesterday just standing still. Her backside seemed filled puffy. Then today she laid what seemed to be just an egg yolk. She spent the day laying down and sleeping. After a quiet loving visit this...
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Our beloved Australorp x buff Orpington Lottie healed beautifully after having a prolapsed rump, however now a month or two later she's got trouble again. She came asking for help this morning when my husband noticed her bleeding backside. Our first thought was that she relapsed...