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    Baby crowing and STILL not weaned! What age is your oldest chick to wean from mama?

    Hi, so I’m just curious. How old was your oldest chick that was weaned ? Typically my chicks are weaned by 5 weeks old. But I’ve got a clutch, they just turned 7 weeks, one of which is CROWING and mama still mamas them. It’s fine with me, they’re healthy and happy. But it hysterical to watch a...
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    My hens are making my roosters look good!

    My og flock of 12 hens and my primary rooster have got the grouch bug or something. I’ve also got a bachelor flock of 4 roosters. The boys occasionally bicker nothing serious. And usually the og flock is quiet and calm unless singing the egg song. But here lately, my hens have been just been...
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    I HATE the “pecking order”!

    I hate the pecking order. I’ve got a flock of 25. And they’re really friendly docile chickens, no bully’s. Until… every time a hen is broody or sick or whatever the case, and need to be separated from the flock, once returned, that hateful pecking order cr*p starts. I hate watching them pecked...
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    Hens don’t lay in the rain

    Let me rephrase, my hens don’t lay when it’s raining. I’ve got about 12 hens laying, some everyday some every other day. But when it rain, especially when it’s raining for days, I’ll be lucky to get 3 eggs. They’ve got access to the coop from the chicken yard/run. Nothing changes except it’s...
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    I bathed my rooster and now..

    I bathed my rooster, Gomez. And now..he has a “messy bun” tail. I think it’s hysterical.
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    Y’all! Anyone need a little happiness in there day??

    My little bantam went broody again. All 7 eggs were infertile. (She has less than 0 interest in my rooster. He finally quit trying lol). I just happen to get 7 Plymouth barred rock chicks, that my kids were going to show at 4-H. Perfect timing, the chicks arrived at day 26 on the nest. She...
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    Rooster disciplining a hen?

    My year old hen chased my 11 week old pullet, and pecked her. (Nothing major, just looked like pecking order stuff to me). The pullet screamed, more out of a jump scare than pain, and my rooster heard it. He chased (I mean ran with a purpose) the hen out of the bushes and then mounted her. Was...
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    Broody hen and too many chicks

    I’ve got a bantam broody, she’s been broody for 26 days. I had 8 baby chicks I bought, actually I bought 4 but ended up with 8. Anyway I placed 4 under her, she took to them perfectly! It’s been 2 days and she’s the best mama. I wanted to give her all 8 but she’s so little, she physically...
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    Will my hen ever lay again? Bronchitis and lash egg.

    I’ve got a one year old legbar, she’s been laying well up until she got sick. This was in February. She was SICK, she wasn’t eating, or drinking, lethargic is an understatement. I took her to the vet and he said she had bronchitis. After antibiotics and tons of TLC, after 5 days she was better...
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    Is this a lash egg?

    Cracker, my legbar is a year old. She lays every other day. The last time she laid, a few days ago it was a shell-less egg. Today she laid this. She’s acting completely normal, eating drinking, she’s active. If this is a lash egg, what do I do as far as bio security with the other hens?
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    Will his apparent recessive white gene ever show up in his offspring?

    Hi, I’ve got a white Cochin bantam rooster, and I’d love to have some of his WHITE offspring. But, so far I’ve gotten a rooster who is black and reddish, the mama is a RSL. I’ve got another rooster who is completely barred, his mama is a legbar, and a hen who is a solid black fizzled bantam, her...
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    Rooster doing a weird crouch thing making a screechy sound when I approach him.

    One of my roosters, Fred, is about 15 months old. Whenever I approach him he’ll try to find a corner, beside a bush or a corner of the coop and crouch down and make a screechy noise. It reminds me of a dog that’s been mistreated. I’ve never EVER hit or kicked or anything like that to Fred. Once...
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    Hi, so what’s something you’re like “man I really wish you’d stop doing that”? I’ve been chicken keeping for a while now, and there’s some things my chickens do that drive me bananas! Maybe its when they all run and scream from a low flying cardinal but stop and stare at opossum. Seriously I’m...
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    What is this coming out of my hen??? It’s at least 5ft long!

    I went to let chickens out this morning and saw this coming out of my chicken. On her roost from her vent to THE FLOOR. It’s at least 5 feet long. It’s still just hanging out. She’s a year old, has been laying for months. She’s acting fine, eating, drinking, and tried to go outside with her...
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    Leghorn gender?

    Hi, I know the comb and wattles are a bit large, but I read somewhere that leghorn grow them quickly. She’s about 8 weeks old.
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    What’s up with my broody not broody girl?

    Hi! I’ve got a bantam Cochin Morticia, she’s a little over a year old. She’s been laying for about 4 months ish. She was broody and hatched a clutch 8 weeks ago. She’s eating perfectly, actually more than usual. Drinking, pooping, laying. But, her comb is a paler red than usual and she’s acting...
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    Rooster splintered beak..

    My rooster Fred, has been doing some fence fighting I assume, I didn’t witness the happening. He was ok until this evening, I noticed he has a splintered beak. It’s not bleeding, or anything, he eats perfectly fine. But what do I do? Leave it be? Put antibiotic ointment on it? Clip it down? Any...
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    My roosters acting broody?!

    Hi, I’ve got a mixed flock of about 22 chickens. With the exception of 5 chicks, they’re all a year old and my hens have laying for 7-8 months. There’s nothing new, no changes. For the past couple weeks whenever my girls go to lay, my secondary rooster- a humongous Wyandotte/Maran mix runs to an...
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    Polish chickens with mixed flock questions

    Hi, for those of you familiar with polish chickens.. I’m thinking about getting some polish birds. I have a mixed flock of standards and bantams from RSLs, legbars, austrolorps, Cochins…it’s an awesome flock very docile and friendly. Unless I have a broody everyone gets along perfectly. I’ve got...
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    Bio security question

    Hi, I have a flock of 17 hens and roosters. Everyone is healthy and happy. They’re about a year old. There is a person near ish me giving away her Silkies. She says she can’t afford them. I’d LOVE to have silkies, but I’m deathly scared about bringing in new birds into my flock. Even if I...
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