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    Almost had a heart attack tucking the girls in last night!!

    *disclaimer* bloody pics, but no actual harm done thank god Every night I do a head count and tuck my girls in and get in some bedtime snuggles before closing up the coop. Last night I went in, looked to the left where the nesting boxes are and saw my big fat chantecler, butter, roosting on the...
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    Extremely tiny preening gland???

    Hello! I have a buff chantecler that is just a little over a year old. She has always had gorgeous, glossy, healthy looking feathers but lately I’ve noticed her feathers down her back look really stringy and oily. They aren’t being bitten at or pulled out, they’re just stringy. I might try to...
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    How many quail do I need for meat?

    Hi everyone! I’ve been keeping chickens a little over a year and recently I’ve been thinking about keeping quail also. Not together…separate housing. I know the basics of care, but my question is how many do I need for a family of 3? How should I start? It would be okay if we had extra, I could...
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    My girls gave me a Christmas surprise this morning!

    The Christmas surprise was roundworms. Two. Huge. Roundworms. Left right on top of a roost for me to see as soon as I walked in the coop this morning! 😁. So everyone got a nice dollop of fenbendazole this morning. My sweet Delaware, Willow, recognized the syringe and came running to gobble up...
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    Painting my #1 girl, Tinkie!

    Hi! Tinkie (also known as Tink, Tinkie Winkie, Tinkie Birb) is my 10 month old Delaware. From the day we brought her home as a tiny little fluff ball we knew there was just something special about her. She was so friendly and outgoing that I was sure she would end up being a rooster! Eggs a few...
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    Pullet suddenly has swollen eyes

    Hi! As the title says, I have a Cochin pullet around 14/15 weeks old who presented very suddenly with both eyes swollen today. I got her and 3 other pullets when they were around 7 weeks old, the Cochin had some respiratory stuff going on at that time (raspy breathing sounds, nasal discharge)...
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    Hen got a little too excited 😅

    Just wanted to share my awkward and gross encounter with one of my Delawares a few moments ago. A few of my chickens love to hop up on my lap and get some cuddles in when I’m in the coop. My Delaware, Willow, does this the most. This morning she hopped up and I gave her a hug like always except...
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    Just sharing my coop idea

    Hello! I’ve been attempting to build an 8x8 coop for my girls since January lol. I’m very indecisive and picky so that hasn’t made it any easier :). I have the corner posts and base already built, the 4 walls are framed but not secured onto the base yet Right now everyone is in an enclosed...
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    Still can’t figure out what these birds are!!

    Hello! I’ve posted several times over the past 4-5 months about these two buff mysteries and I still can’t decide what they are…breed OR gender 🤦‍♀️ They were purchased from rural king as “English orpingtons” 🙄 they are definitely not orpingtons. They’re absolutely gorgeous birds I just wish I...
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    Sudden change in behavior

    I have an isa brown who lays nearly every day, her eggs are quite often a little weird though. Some are so thin that they crack almost as soon as she lays them, some are completely normal, some have a rough bumpy texture, sometimes the color isn’t evenly distributed on the egg (like the top 1/4...
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    11 week old Delawares, pullets right?

    I’ve posted my sweet Delawares a couple times at different ages. They’re roughly 11 weeks old now and I REALLY want to finally give them names 😁 What does everyone think?
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    12 week hand raised silkie roos central Kentucky

    Hi! I have at least 4, possibly six young silkie cockerels to rehome. They’ve been hand raised and we spend a LOT of time holding them and cuddling with them. I really need to find them homes quickly, they’re starting to get very annoyed with each other! One of them has a curved beak, but he is...
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    Delawares and mystery buffs

    Hi! I have four babies that I want to play hen or roo with :) Two Delawares, at LEAST 9 weeks old but I don’t know for sure how much older than that they might be. I think they were at least a week old when I got those two. The two buffs are 8 weeks old. So idk what the buffs are, they were...
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    Is this overkill??

    Hi! I’m slowly putting together plans for a large coop/run combo. It will look something like the pics I’m attaching, with the coop part being enclosed in the run but lifted high enough off the ground to still have the area underneath accessible to the chickens. The overall footprint of the...
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    Playing hen or roo with Delawares

    Got two Delawares a few weeks ago, just curious if anyone has thoughts on this one’s gender. I don’t know exactly how old they are, I’m guessing they were about a week old when I brought them home which would put them around four weeks now. I only put pictures of one because the other won’t pose...
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    I didn’t know I could love a baby chick this much!

    I got some chicks a couple weeks ago, two Delawares and two Buff Orpingtons. Almost the same day I brought them home I noticed one of the little Delawares seemed extremely interested every time I would walk by! It eventually started running to the side of the brooder to get as close as it could...
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    Weird wing growth on Orpington chick?

    I got a couple Buff Orpington chicks from the feed store a week or so ago. They were supposed to be English Orpingtons but after the employee dumped them in the box he let me know that they were running low on the English and dumped American in there too 🙄. Anyway, I have a couple of questions...
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    Hen or roo?

    Got this chicken and was told it was a pullet, but now at 14-16 weeks or so it’s mounting one of my silkies all the time. It’s at the bottom of the pecking order so I don’t think it’s just a dominance thing. Looks like a golden laced Wyandotte to me but was told it’s an Easter egger. I just...
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    Fertilized egg?

    Im not sure if this is the right place for this. I have an Easter egger that I was told was a pullet, but several weeks later “it” keeps mounting my black silkie hen (only her though!) I’m pretty sure I see saddle feathers coming in but not 100% sure. Anyway, today my black silkie laid an egg...
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    Forgot to date silkie hatching eggs

    I was dumb and thought that I would remember what day I started incubating my silkie eggs. I did not remember and now I’m not sure how much longer they have. Could anyone take a guess based on pics? They are quite active. I saw feet and legs kicking and could see their individual toes inside the...
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