r/chickens • • 6h ago

Question Why is my chicken quacking after she laid an egg

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r/chickens • • 4h ago

Media She shall not be contained

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One of my girls is addicted to laying eggs in a chair on my porch. I’ve slowly raised the height of the enclosure to try and keep her safe and I think all I did was progressively train her to clear 6 foot fences.


r/chickens • • 4h ago

Media My roosters ❤️❤️❤️

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r/chickens • • 13m ago

Media Adam and His Ladies

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Gertrude on the left, Nikki on the right. He loves them so much


r/chickens • • 2h ago

Media Did we get a roo?

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My MIL (Helens mom for those of you who are familar with Helen and her story) is convinced one of the 8 hens we got for her a few months back is a roo. The one with a lot of red on her (or his) face. She said the other day she could have swore she heard him crowing. What do you guys think? Did she end up with a rooster or is this gal just more red in the face than her sisters?


r/chickens • • 9h ago

Media He literally pecked poor Katherine out of the way so he could have all my attention

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r/chickens • • 6h ago

Media One of these things is not like the other

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r/chickens • • 1h ago

Media Helen does tricks

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Every day she goes on a walk with my MIL in the mornings and late afternoons with the dogs. This is her favorite time of day because she LOVES hunting for grasshoppers. We came up to visit this weekend and she had to show us her tricks!


r/chickens • • 6h ago

Question Rooster hurting my chicken

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Aurora is the only hen he hurts, he is extremely aggressive and pecks at her comb even when it’s not mating. All my hens are terrified of him, what should I do?

I’ve separated them from the other chickens, but he gets extremely lonely. I’ve also tried a few things to protect her comb, but he always manages to take them off. This hen is very important to me.


r/chickens • • 17h ago

Media Behold - our protecter and fighter my little roo

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r/chickens • • 11h ago

Question Silkie - roo or hen?

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11 week old silkie, I know they are difficult to sex! We are just curious about this little weirdo. Came from TS straight run bin. I’m leaning roo but curious what others think!


r/chickens • • 4h ago

Question Roosters

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Was told they were all hens, but 3 look like rooster. Australorps Bantams 13-15 weeks. Hear one crowing already. I'm crushed so many are roosters i wanted to keep them all. How many roosters do you see out of the 4


r/chickens • • 3h ago

Question Breed ID help

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Hi all, curious about the possible breeds of my 2 new chickens. Any help appreciated.


r/chickens • • 17h ago

Media Our girls (and boy!) eating some cat food as a treat, much to the frustration of the cat!

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We gave the girls some cat food as a treat, only for our cat to come right up to the door in confusion as to why they were eating his food! Especially funny as he’s usually too nervous to walk right up to them.


r/chickens • • 7h ago

Question Pumpkin carving?

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Anyone tried this

Does it work?


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Media Remembering my beautiful girl Pants, my most favourite chicken ever

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Lost pants to a brutal cat attack, she was left with a broken neck, she'll always be our most darling chicken.


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Question What breed is she again?

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I can’t take other photos because it’s dark and I don’t want to wake her up


r/chickens • • 21h ago

Discussion It's my turn to ask the infamous question...hen or rooster?

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I have kind of developed a sort of breed, this is the third chicken with this kind of color pattern and I'm really happy about it. I've had chickens for years but I can't wrap my mind around this guy here. It was born the 4th of July (🦅🇺🇸) and at this point the characteristics of a male and female should be more apparent (the comb is not very prominent), a month ago I was 100% sure it was a hen (which would be great), but now with that tail not so much...any thoughts? I am just overthinking it because I really want it to be a female and would love another opinion.

Thanks


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Other Everything I've read says leghorn chickens aren't cuddly, lap chickens and they don't like being handled or held. Lol, ok... This is one of my recently acquired hurricane chickens and she's more friendly than the last chickens we had.

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r/chickens • • 1d ago

Other Thought of you all!

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I don't own chickens but your subreddit pops up on my feed a lot and you're all adorable. Maybe this tapestry isn't impressive but I adore it and thought it should be shared lol


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Media Invasion of the zombies

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I was taking pictures of my chickens and somehow caught Mabel (my zombie chicken) mid blink. She fully is embracing and looking the zombie part today.


r/chickens • • 11h ago

Media Chicken family needs names

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What names do you think of, except for the chick with big wings, that one is called Angel, but what do you have in mind for the rest?


r/chickens • • 3h ago

Discussion TMNC

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My chickens keep drinking the runoff from our washing machine. Pretty soon, I think they're going to be eating pizza and fighting crime.


r/chickens • • 21h ago

Question How often do your chickens get sick?

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Our first ever chicks are being delivered next week so I’ve been lurking all the chicken subs. I know that specific subs like these catch a lot of questions just by nature of the sub but it’s kicking my anxiety up that there is just going to be mites and sour crop and egg bound chickens coming out of my eyeballs. How often have you had to deal with sick chickens??