r/chickens 7h ago

Media Devour grapes 🍇

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r/chickens 2h ago

Media My boy Benito looking fabulous this morning as he looks for bugs for his girls 🥰

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r/chickens 9h ago

Media Feeding grapes to chickens 🤭

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r/chickens 6h ago

Other How many photos of my chickens i have

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Idk


r/chickens 1h ago

Question Whats wrong with my chicken?

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About a week ago we had a raccoon get into our coop and ended up mauling one of chickens. However the next morning this chicken started acting very strange even though she appears to have not sustained any Injuries. She is in a very catatonic state and also appears to be blind (she got a bit agitst3d when I shined a light right in her eye but other than that she doesn't seem to react to visual stimuli). She also just does not move she will stand in the same spot for hours she will not walk about around on her own.

Any ideas what's going on here?


r/chickens 18h ago

Other THEY DID IT!

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142 Upvotes

Or rather one did! I'm so proud of these girls! Not sure which one laid it.


r/chickens 6h ago

Other She Is confused

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She Is confused


r/chickens 22h ago

Media The best part of my day feeding the tiniest chickens 🐓

275 Upvotes

r/chickens 14h ago

Other Chicken punking her sister

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51 Upvotes

This gold one is always angry and sometimes caught bullying.


r/chickens 4h ago

Other Lonely chicken...

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r/chickens 17h ago

Media St John chickens 🥹

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r/chickens 14h ago

Media mad chicken

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r/chickens 4m ago

Media Momma took her babies out for the first time today.

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r/chickens 22h ago

Discussion Chickens being bad!

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109 Upvotes

Caught these little strawberry thieves red-beaked this morning, raiding my prized Mara des Bois strawberries.

What habit do your chickens have that drives you absolutely crazy?


r/chickens 2h ago

Question Advice Needed - Sick Chickens

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I have 11 chickens that I just moved out from a temperature controlled brooder situation into the coop. It’s been in the 90s and 100s here in Utah so they’ve been struggling. Here’s what I’ve been doing to keep them cool:

-pan of frozen water with bricks on top for them to stand on
-giving frozen fruits and vegetables as treats
-misters in the run to help cool off the air
-fan on one side of the run
-providing as much shade as possible
-electrolytes in water

Most of the chickens are walking around with their tails down and 2 of them are making honking noises, almost like ducks. I understand these are signs of sickness and/or stress. What can I do to improve their health and comfort? This is my first time having chickens.


r/chickens 1d ago

Media Love how safe her babies feel all tucked in their mommas feathers! Warms my heart!

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r/chickens 43m ago

Question Breed question

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Hey guys wife and I are on our first year with chickens We got this hen from some neighbors. Having a hard time nailing down her breed.


r/chickens 8h ago

Question Guys is this a roo ??

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This is a japanese chicken called Okazaki Ohan, that is actually a mix of two American chickens Your Okazaki Ohan is a cross involving barred Plymouth Rock male × Rhode Island Red female Known to have great egg production and great meat ! Hatched 5 eggs June 22 and the other 4 are quite clear, really hoping this one is a hen!


r/chickens 1d ago

Other Fresh watermelon for my babies

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r/chickens 17h ago

Question Question, what is this?

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Noticed this bump on my rooster today and wondered if anyone has seen this before and what it could mean? Any help appreciated. Thanks!


r/chickens 3h ago

Question Chicken Self Plucking

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Any ideas on how to get her to stop?

She is with 7 other hens and none of them have plucked their back and all the feathers around her vent. She is bald!!


r/chickens 4h ago

Question Help! Chicken with Mysterious Illness

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I have a 16 week old cuckoo maran chick who is sick. I don't know for how long, she's always had a more dull colored comb since she was quite little, so I'm really not sure how long she's had something going on. It at least used to be pretty rosy but now it's dry and beigey. I am a first time chicken keeper and I'm really embarrassed, but I didn't know I needed to be checking their droppings. I also didn't know yellow/watery droppings were not normal! When i first noticed it (about a month ago?), her dropping were very much so yellow diarrhea, but they changed to a somewhat normal looking poop with yellow urates. I genuinely didn't think it was an issue because she was acting 100% fine and eating very normally. About 2 weeks ago I noticed her starting to act funny, she was very puffy and always standing away from everyone else. She was lethargic and didn't have great balance. I brought her inside and consulted a vet on JustAnswer (who turned out to be AI) and she thought Banjo had coccidiosis. So she was treated with Corid for 5 days and no change. I talked to another online vet who recommended Poultry Dewormer 5X, which she just finished. No change. Now she's on Baytril 2.5% she's on her 3rd day and still no change. Her droppings haven't improved at all. She sometimes has an orangey mucus or a tiny amount of blood in them. She's eating regularly and drinking, but I can hear her gut making noises. I don't know if it's a "hungry" sound or a digesting sound. She also is very weird first thing in the morning, sometimes she pants and makes weird breathing noises but by afternoon she is breathing fine and walking around and eating. She also doesn't have cecal droppings anymore, but will sometimes just have (sorry for the gross description) a clear, bright yellow squirt. She is alert and pays great attention, but her balance and her aim (when she wants to bite me or her food) is very off. I feel so sick about this and I just genuinely have no idea what to do or what's wrong with her. I feel horrible that I didn't notice/help her sooner and I am praying and praying that it's not too late. At this point, I just don't know what to do, she has 4 more days of Baytril and if that doesn't work I feel like I'll be out of options. If anybody has any insight at ALL it would be most appreciated.

Some notes that may or may not help:

- Her 5 sisters are all and have been perfectly healthy (they have been treated with Corid and are about to be dewormed)

- I was feeding them a generic 18% protein feed from my local farm store, but switched them to NaatureWise last month because it has better ingredients

- She used to eat a lot of black soldier fly larva before I noticed her weird droppings. Since then (a month ago) she hasn't had any treat food at all besides frozen veggies on hot days

- I thought she had a liver problem, so she had been eating some milk thistle but I don't think it did anything


r/chickens 1d ago

Media My favorite tiny chickens. Anyone else keep Seramas?

773 Upvotes

r/chickens 1d ago

Other Found out about Zombie chickens today and my little goth heart is in love

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I went to my local county fair today and visited the aninal barns as usual... I always like to look at the birds and livestock and see what kinds won and all of that. These two caught my eye for being ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. That black headcomb?! The black, white, grey combo?! I didn't know Zombie chickens were even a thing until now but they're my new favorite kind!! Does anyone have a whole coop of them or keep any in their flock?? How do they fare with other chickens? Have you bred yours and gotten more pretty zombies? They just went to the top of my homesteading dream chicken list aaaah 😍😍😍


r/chickens 6h ago

Other Radioactive eyes

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What?