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    How best to add to my small Flock

    I have 4 hens and one Rooster which I raised from day old chicks from My Pet Chicken last October. I want to add some blue egg layers to my flock, and maybe another Lavender Orpington who is my little Love. I have 2 Easter Eggers who lay pale green eggs so carry the blue gene, and my...
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    Is mid July too late to incubate and hatch chicken eggs from my little flock

    I had hoped I would have one of my hens go broody, but not happened yet! I only have 4. I have an BS Ameracauna rooster, and two Easter Egger hens who lay a pale green egg. I have read that the blue egg gene is dominate. So my Easter eggers have the blue gene, as does my Rooster, so...
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    Grown only Rooster with eye closed this morning!!

    There is no swelling I can see, and no discharge. What do I do. Very small flock just Rooty, and 4 hens. He Rules. I did hear a minor scuffle after I closed the coop last evening thinking he was probably approaching an unwilling hen, or could have been vying for roosting place. Three...
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    Hen molting or "losing feathers around Vent

    So I have been seeing Feathers in my Coop. A lot of them have been light Gray, but some darker. So that means my Light Gray Hen is losing the gray ones and the others coming from one of 3 others possibly. They are 20 weeks old. So I read up today about looking for Pin Feathers. I...
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    New to chicken raising but am so loving my little Flock!

    I live in Western NC, newly retired and have 14 wk olds. Got them at 1 day chicks. Ordered one Roo and have 4 "presumably" hens. But one I thought was a Hen, starting crowing yesterday! Sooo the one I thought was my Rooster I am not sure of it's sex now. Can anyone help me? I think it...
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