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Warning..Chicken sick?
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Question, I have no idea what happened to Buttercup. She was fine last night. Went to go give them some peas and I found her like this .

The coop is fine no break ins. Its just strange and the rest of the flock is fine.

Anyone think they know what happened? She didn't get bullied and there are no wounds.

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Not allowed to have roosters in the city.... help with gender ID?
Someone in our flock started crowing last weekend, and today I heard two crowing at the same time. We can't have roosters in our city. There are two suspects and a possible third but I'm a first timer and don't want to get it wrong! None of them have crowed when we're watching them, and I keep hearing about chickens being gender fluid and some hens crowing... safe to say I'm pre...

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Share Your Goofy Names for Your Birds (including aliases)
A bit of a fun topic. Some of my birds have names and then some have names and a nickname. Others have a name, nickname, and an alias. I’ll share a few. How about you? Try to post photos of the birds so we can put the name with the bird(s).

Feel free to vote for your favorite names with a “like” and/or a quoted post and a reply mentioning the specific name(s) that you l...

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re homing 7 ducks and 7 chickens
We have 7 ducks and 7 chickens we have to re home because of zoning. Our lot is 0.4 and it is just shy if the ordinance and we cannot afford to pay the zoning variant fee. We can give our coop and run and everything we have. Any offers?

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Urban Chicken Farmer
Our chickens arrived as day old chicks at the end of April. We have a mix of breeds. It's soothing to listen to them coo. A couple of them are very friendly and fly up on my back or shoulder when I come to see them. Building a chicken coop was challenging but turned out great.

Still IDing breeds, but def a Barred Rock, likely a couple of Buff Orpingtons, a few Easte...

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