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    Red mites?

    Thank you for your recommendation :)
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    Red mites?

    Thank you. I found the nest of red mites. They are in old wooden closet. Tomorrow I will remove the closet and maybe use some fire to kill the biggest nest (in clean piece of wood, so that thing can be burn in the fire). And later I will spray "winter chicken house" but at first I need to get...
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    Red mites?

    Hello I have problem. Never have problem with any kind of parasites in my chickens flock, until now :( Few days ago I've noticed tiny, and I mean TINY bugs on my young rooster, happily he is separated from the rest of the flock (because he is aggressive) but he was separated in the "summer"...
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    Comment by 'Nica44' in article 'What to Do When Your Roosters are Fighting and How to Care for Them Afterwards'

    Thank you for this article. I have two roosters and probably not enough hens, but I want to buy few more. But maybe I react too soon when my roosters are fighting, although I am not sure. I let them fight yeasterday (no major wounds since I put blinders on younger rooster) but older rooster is...
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    Blinders/peepers for rooster and vent gleet in hen

    Hei Hei is better today. I don't know what changed but she eat better, I added vitamins to their water (they are used to it I give it to their water from time to time), Her crop was empty after night, Nothing on her abdomen. I remember now that my other 5 years old sussex had that issue too, she...
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    Blinders/peepers for rooster and vent gleet in hen

    Hello i have two problems. First is with my roosters, I have two of them, father and son, similar size, but younger is a little more aggressive. Well towards humans he is usally ok but for second rooster, nope. So I bought blinders/peepers for them but i have problem. They are not pinless, and I...
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    My current flock

    Hi I have another news, good news this time. One of my babies (that are not babies anymore) start laying eggs about a week ago :D Now her eggs are small but I'm so happy :D Now you can see the difference :D On the left Nephrite's egg, on the right Hei Hei's egg (she is 3 years old) And here...
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    My current flock

    Hi I know that every flock owner has different way to introduce young chickens to the rest of the flock but i started to showing them to my older girls when they were big enough to not get killed by older birds. -at first I let them know each other from safe distance (i have smaller chicken...
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    My current flock

    Sad news for today. Hawky passed away. She was weaker lately, but not very weak, she wasn't as strong and mean to other girls as before, but still strong, yesterday she was happily scratching in my garden, and today she fell over with her legs and one wing paralyzed, and died not long time ago...
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    My current flock

    Thank you so much :D
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    My current flock

    Hello I want to introduce my chicken flock to all of you :) please enjoy Rooster - Jasper i don't know his breed, one thing i can tell about him is that he is red cuckoo, and his feathers are not only metallic but shiny as if they are made from glass (especially his saddle feathers) and he...
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    Chick sexing project

    Thank you and I hope those two are pullets because i can have twoo roosters but more I have to give somewhere to the zoo or some asylum because I don't like idea of culling cockerels :(
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    2021 BYC Calendar - We Need Your Pictures!

    Jasper in a coop Punk on my knee Baby chick Nephrite - she/he was soo cute few weeks ago Young Jasper Punk again (she is sooo cute) Blacky few years ago. She was awesome chicken but saddly sha passed away this year, but she was one cute girl and in the background you can see...
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    Chick sexing project

    Well, opal is probably young rooster. He start to try fighting with others, who are not interested in fighting at all (well Nephrite sometimes try it too but not too much, and Amethyst run away) Opal's comb start to be bright pink and wattles are bigger and longer, also pink. He is first to...
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    New in BackYard Chickens

    Hello, my name is Monica, I'm from Poland. I have chickens since 2013 (and before as a child) so I'm not new in this topic, but I am not typical Polish village chicken keeper who have chickens to lay eggs, and kill thpem for meat, I keep them as pets, and I'm taking their eggs as prize. Now...
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