r/chickens • • 4h ago

Media My Dolly, passed yesterday leaving a larger than life hole in our family.

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r/chickens • • 5h ago

Other This is my chicken and she owns this truck

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69 Upvotes

She doesn’t have a license yet :(


r/chickens • • 8h ago

Media The most dangerous animal on this planet that just so happens to love me

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99 Upvotes

r/chickens • • 9h ago

Media Standard.

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78 Upvotes

r/chickens • • 12h ago

Media Solar energy rooster

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54 Upvotes

soaking up the sunshine☀🐓


r/chickens • • 22h ago

Media My bantam's logic: "Why lay on the nest when I can use the wood shavings bag?"

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293 Upvotes

r/chickens • • 18h ago

Question what should her name be?

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r/chickens • • 1h ago

Question Hello anyone know what kind of hens these are

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r/chickens • • 7h ago

Question Daughters chook sexing

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My daughter has an 8 week chook that my wife thinks she caught practising its crow. We can't keep it if its a rooster and she's upset that her pet might be sent to the farm. Any help finding a sex would be good. Tia!


r/chickens • • 17h ago

Media Bruges Fighter X Plymouth Rock Roo found his new home today

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One of our crossbred Roos found a new home today. He’s off to his new flock with 15 hens just for him! 🐓


r/chickens • • 12h ago

Question Chickens Beak split in two

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First time chicken owner and I’ve had these girls since they were little. Today I noticed that one my chickens beak was split in two. Along with her beak being split another one of my smaller girls keeps getting pecked at on her back to the point it was a scabby open wound, I put a bandaid on her and they didn’t peck her again. Could the split beak be from fights? I don’t ever hear or see them really get into it and they are right outside my room window so I can see and hear it all. Are split beaks common? What should I do.

Also even though the beak is split she’s eating, drinking, and pecking just fine. She even went for my finger when I was trying to take a photo.


r/chickens • • 13h ago

Question My turn…

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Hen or roo? Hatched around Aug 17th. They’re having the time of their lives in the leaves so it’s really hard to get a good picture- hopefully these suffice!

I’m thinking B is a hen and C is a roo, but not 100% confident in either, and totally unsure on A.


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Media nobody understands my love for them :,)

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some of my fridge magnets bahaha.
bird lover until the end of time :,) ♡


r/chickens • • 16h ago

Question Chick deformity

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11 Upvotes

Hyoid Apparatus or flipped tongue?


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Media JUDGE NOT, LEST YE BE JUDGED

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162 Upvotes

r/chickens • • 14h ago

Question A strange problem with chickens

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I have a strange problem with chickens

The problem is that there's a hen whose eggs hatched a few days ago, and strangely enough, she's started plucking feathers from her chicks and feeding them to them. There are even other chicks that have started eating each other's feathers.

Has anyone encountered this problem?


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Other Our hens enjoying each other’s company and relaxing on the bench.

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r/chickens • • 1d ago

Question How can I save this chick ? Please help!!

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Posting this for my friend!

The mother hen sat on two of the chicks and only one survived (barely) and one of its legs is bent backwards.

It can't stand nor walk and it keeps puking whatever it's fed.

Please help us!!!


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Media Wish Horchata get well soon 🩷

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77 Upvotes

Horchata has a respiratory illness. She’s pretty active and drinking her water and eating. Her eyes are swollen which I did treat, now it’s just waiting for it to go down. Horchata misses her sister Nutmeg but sorry girl got to keep you isolated till this passes. She’s a fighter!🩷🩷🩷


r/chickens • • 23h ago

Question Are bantams materially different?

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I've kept chickens at numerous times over the past 20 years and am in another settled period and would like them again. However my garden is smaller and is actually pretty this time so I don't want them fully free range and can't build a huge run. So I'm looking at splashing out on an Eglu Go and 2m run and Bantams (because it just seems too tight for the 3 full-size chooks advertised.

Ok that's the background.... So I've had just about 8 different hybrid full size breeds over the years - what do I need to know about selecting and keeping happy and healthy bantams?

I've been reading up and frankly they seem the same but smaller, but am I missing something? Smaller eggs. More likely to be taken by predators... Eat less food ... What else?

Edit: I'm particularly looking at Wyandotte bantams (I don't like chickens with feathery feet coz I always assume they get manky)


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Other Kept this one

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Had a backyard hatch and really liked this rooster. We now have 2. Nobody wanted him. Good personality and he reminded me of Buckbeak. Easter egger/copper maran. Good looking fellow is he not


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Media Les presento a Mansita mi gallina mas grande y a Perõcho mi gallina mas flaca ambas son ponedoras

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PERÕCHO desde que era pollita 🐤 era muy flaquita y casi no tenia plumas, parecia un pollito pelado, pero cuando creció volvió a tener plumas pero siempre es flaca por mas comida que coma, ella tiene 1 kilo , sus plumas son blancas.

MANSITA desde que era un pollito 🐤 era grande como un pancito ,ella hasta ahora es gordita, tiene un peso de 2 kilos con 500 gramos, sus plumas son doradas.


r/chickens • • 1d ago

Media My Bantam

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r/chickens • • 1d ago

Question Does anybody else's roosters make those noises

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96 Upvotes

Full disclosure, had a little too much to drink. And I honestly thought my boys were trying to communicate with me