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Bald Spot on Back
Hey, All!

I've got an odd one. This afternoon, I noticed one of my girls was missing all the feathers on her back. She is going through a molt, but I've never seen anything like this before. We looked around a found a massive amount of feathers in the coop (not there last night when we did a health check after sunset). I have a few ideas of what could have happened,...

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Hen with possible broken leg?
My two year old Appenzeller Spitzhauben hen has started limping really bad. She started limping yesterday but I noticed before that she was having a hard time getting up on her roost. Her leg looks like it might be out of socket or broken. Where the scaly part of her leg meets the feathery part, it's bending way more than normal. I lightly felt both of her legs to see if they fe...

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Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans
As a lot of my friends here know, I’m working on a project to combine the Gold allele from my French Black Copper Marans with the barring of my English Silver and Dark Cuckoo Marans, in an attempt to revive the English standard Golden Cuckoo.
Contacts in the Marans club executives have agreed that this variety is likely extinct in the UK and Ireland.

Since I s...

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Injured leg - any hope?
2yr old hen - I saw her limping for several days but only caught this picture today. She is having difficulty putting allot of weight on it.

Any hope?

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CC's Project 365
Hi all!
Joining the BYC's 365 project!
Here I'll try to post a picture everyday! Enjoy and feel...

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