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    Help, She's Crowing & won't lay eggs anymore!!!

    Where does she sit in the pecking order? Is she the head hen? We have a Buff Orp, eight years old now. She took on the role of head hen early on and quit laying, but for a few times off and on. She would try to crow occasionally, but nothing consistent. We’ve pretty much chalked it up as she...
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    Self-Appointed Coop Manager making trouble...

    Ugh, we have one of “those” hens right now too 🙄 Curtains on the nesting boxes have helped a little, but some days she just goes off the rails and tries to micro manage all laying activities - the WORST 🤦🏼‍♂️ We’ve been having some long term egg quality issues. If those issues weren’t present...
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    Are my Easter Eggers all roosters?

    Oof, I couldn’t imagine treating 100 birds 😳 Definitely a time consuming task and those darn mites are tough to treat!
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    Are my Easter Eggers all roosters?

    Just a heads up, the birds pictured appear to have scaly leg mites in varying stages. Might want to get that treated and under control as it is looks to be spreading through the flock and will become a problem for your new pullets or hens pretty quickly. The white bird standing behind one of...
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    Egg Quality Issues

    Our three laying hens are having egg quality issues. It seems like our new flock members always start out laying quality eggs, then things go down hill from there. PBE - currently laying (blue) misshaped eggs with calcium deposits and wrinkles or striations along the side. She is almost 2...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Two and one half 😆 Great example of a fairy egg out of our Prairie Bluebell who consistently lays the largest eggs in the flock.
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    Can anyone help me know what Gender my welsummer 14 week chicks are

    You’ll have to let us know how it turns out. As others have mentioned, I could be totally off on that one being a cockerel. Fingers crossed you get five eggs 🤞🏻 Beautiful birds by the way. Always like the look of Welsummers.
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    Can anyone help me know what Gender my welsummer 14 week chicks are

    The one in the upper left corner of the first picture with the inconsistent feather patterning, red patches on shoulders, and red developing comb (shown in pic 3) appears to be a cockerel. Can’t see it from the pics but it most likely has a dark colored chest compared to the others.
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    FLUFFY BUTT FRIDAY.....REVIVED

    Alright, one more just because it is weird. This is the sister of the one I posted earlier today. She has what we like to call saggy diaper fluffy butt 😆 She is a very strange hen too 🤨
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    FLUFFY BUTT FRIDAY.....REVIVED

    Happy Fluffy Butt Friday!
  11. BurbCoop

    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    ALMOST had them lined up perfectly 😅
  12. BurbCoop

    Just started getting my first eggs, what do I do?

    Turkeys don’t mess around! 🦃😆
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    Just started getting my first eggs, what do I do?

    x2 what TheWasp said. Eggs keep longer unwashed, with the bloom intact, pointy end down in the carton. We wash ours right before use. That is also normal behavior for the hens to not want to sit on the eggs. Chickens are communal layers, meaning they lay on top of, or add to, what other hens...
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    Chicken always has weak eggs

    Another possibility looking at the expression she has in that pic - she may have been refusing oyster shell and giving you thin shelled eggs all this time simply out of spite 😆
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    Chicken always has weak eggs

    Good questions from Kiki - if your flock is on layer feed currently, prior to the switch to grower, but getting a lot of treats, scratch, or table scraps, good chance she is not always getting the base calcium provided by the feed, let alone the free choice oyster shell she is not a fan of...
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    Flystrike - Check Those Vents In This Heat

    Ugh, thinking she has salpingitis. Just found a small lash egg 😕
  17. BurbCoop

    Flystrike - Check Those Vents In This Heat

    I definitely failed to specify "warm water" in my write up for the soak. Good call out.
  18. BurbCoop

    Olive Egger- Roo or Hen?

    Looks like a pullet to me.
  19. BurbCoop

    Hen Displaying Strange Nesting Box Behavior

    Neurotic Hen Syndrome, spot on term for what is going on here 🙂
  20. BurbCoop

    Hen Displaying Strange Nesting Box Behavior

    I'm going to try isolating her in the mornings while everyone lays for about a week and see if we can break her of this first.
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