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All the birds are around the food the other photos are just different angles

Do the feathers showing tell you anything

This is a mix of my first hatch and some feed store “pullets”

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Show me your nest boxes!
I am planning on doing some updates to my coop this summer (will post completed project when its done ) and want to see ideas for nesting boxes. I have a metal coop with boxes under my poop shelf. Picture is just of them stacked while I was cleaning. I think i want my future boxes to go there eventually. I think I can make smaller ones to take up less room and still account for ...

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How can I integrate my lone hen with my new chicks?
Willow, my only chicken, has always been alone since birth. Now that I have finally hatched out more chicks, I need to know how to get Willow to join them without attacking or running away.

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Possibly ill chicken/weird poop
Earlier today I noticed my hen was drinking large amounts of water and began to have a disinterest in her food. She seems slightly lethargic and I am a bit concerned, I gave her an epsom salt bath and then she had a very strange poop. I am unsure what her issue may be and I also just noticed she has this weird crust near her vent on her feathers.

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Sudden Death
Hello All, We have had a flock of 10 laying hens, this is their 3rd year, we managed to keep all 10 alive from the start, but I got home from work today and found one of our Bard Rocks dead in the coop. It looks like she just fell off the roost. She was fine yesterday, my husband was home most of the day and said she was fine earlier. There are no obvious signs of distress, no o...

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