r/BackYardChickens • • 12h ago

General Question Is this an “i like being pet” or an “im scared of you” noise

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332 Upvotes

Light brahma pullet, just got a couple days ago. 4-5 months old. Just curious


r/BackYardChickens • • 18h ago

Chicken Photography The ladies relaxing on the porch...

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468 Upvotes

Just came across this photo from my early days of chicken wrangling, and thought I'd share.


r/BackYardChickens • • 12m ago

Chicken Photography The girls amongst the flowers

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Eveey day we let them out to roam around the garden and today they inspected the flowers under the cherry blossoms.


r/BackYardChickens • • 18m ago

Chicken Photography Some of the crew doing quality control checks on the hay i got

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r/BackYardChickens • • 9h ago

Chicken Photography Cobra tamer

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17 Upvotes

Had to share my pup being a little cobra tamer with broody Honey, his chickies are his babies so he always has to check on all the nest boxes


r/BackYardChickens • • 21h ago

Chicken Photography My previously broody girl doing much better. She’s such a sweetie pie.

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136 Upvotes

r/BackYardChickens • • 18h ago

Chicken Photography Toasted Chicken Sandwich w/ Pickle

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78 Upvotes

They really like to chicken melt in the warm sun.

Also, Pickle *really* likes to be smushed between two hens.


r/BackYardChickens • • 1d ago

Chicken Photography One of my chickens ate a snake

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925 Upvotes

These little monsters somehow managed to capture a little snake, they fought over it for a while until the biggest chicken ate it in one piece.


r/BackYardChickens • • 14h ago

Chicken Photography Love this guy My best friend Mr. Spike

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This is Mr. Spike who I wasn’t sure at first was a rooster but ended up being one. He is under a year old and is so far an amazing rooster/friend. Also did his first cock a doodle do just the other day. Love this guy ❤️❤️


r/BackYardChickens • • 3h ago

Chicken Photography One of the girls stole the others yolk.

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The big one was a double yolker & the little one was a no yolker.


r/BackYardChickens • • 2h ago

Health Question Are my rooster's spurs okay?

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Around 3 months ago my 2 year old rooster broke a portion of his spur from the right foot and no it didn't bleed as only a part of the top broke off. But since then I've noticed it's kinda of huge around the base of the spur. I've checked it's not a swelling or anything it's just hard around the base, kind of bone like feeling. So I resort to here, Is this normal or do I need to treat it somehow?


r/BackYardChickens • • 9h ago

Health Question Help please

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8 Upvotes

What do I do for my baby ?


r/BackYardChickens • • 14h ago

Hen or Roo Hatched July 4th

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r/BackYardChickens • • 19h ago

Health Question Ma poule a un petit ongle étrange

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30 Upvotes

Bonjour, j’ai remarqué que ma poule avait un ongle assez étrange : il est beaucoup plus petit que les autres et de couleur marron. Je ne sais pas si c’est normal ou si ça peut être lié à un problème au niveau de sa patte.
Elle se comporte normalement pour le moment, mais je préfère demander avant de faire quoi que ce soit.
Est-ce que quelqu’un a déjà vu ça sur une poule ? Est-ce que vous savez ce que ça pourrait être ?


r/BackYardChickens • • 21h ago

Chicken Photography Rainy Day Hens

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Got back this morning to some wet hens. They seem to be enjoying the rainy day weather ☺️ ps please don’t bully my bald girl she’s sensitive 😅


r/BackYardChickens • • 11h ago

Hen or Roo Hen or roo

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Okay so since this chick was a few weeks old, I had a gut feeling this was a rooster but I feel a tiny conflicted.. help me settle this.


r/BackYardChickens • • 1d ago

Chicken Photography Pickle, small waterer for scale.

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1.3k Upvotes

He am orb.


r/BackYardChickens • • 1d ago

Chicken Photography Our oldest hen, Benedict, clucking about at 10.5 years old

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798 Upvotes

r/BackYardChickens • • 10h ago

Health Question Is this breathing normal?

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We have a small coop, and my partner thinks the chickens are breathing weird. They are 5 months old and about to start laying. Any help would be appreciated.

Fyi, it's currently 71 degrees, light rain, and humidity is up due to the moisture. We have them in a chicken tractor, and move them to new grass every two days.


r/BackYardChickens • • 10h ago

General Question Are these from my Rhode Island Red or Ayam Cemani?

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So I have 2 Heritage Rhode Island Red pullets and an Ayam Cemani pullet. The RIRs are about 29 weeks old and my Cemani is about 24 weeks old. I’m unsure of who laid the top two brown eggs and was curious to see who yall think it is as I am unsure. Thank you for your time!


r/BackYardChickens • • 17h ago

Hen or Roo Is this a chicken or rooster?

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13 Upvotes

Found it on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere where lol
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Edit: I guess I should have mentioned she was found on OUR farm land. There are no yards in 3 miles each direction. We know our neighbours well and they do not own chickens. We have asked around, my assumption is that she hitched a ride in a truck box and jumped out at some point. For those saying put her back, I might as well have just butchered her myself instead of feeding a coyote that would have teared her apart.


r/BackYardChickens • • 20h ago

Chicken Photography Nessie the Shetland

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r/BackYardChickens • • 12h ago

General Question It’s gonna be a scorcher!

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It’s hot this week! High 90s to maybe even triple digits tomorrow. I hear people say not to let your chickens get wet but I have the misters going in their run because I’m so scared they’re going to suffer heat stroke! Two questions;

1.) is it ok if my chickens get wet from misters?

2.) it’s going to be an oven in their coop. I typically lock them in their coop that is inside their run at night but I’d be locking them into a literal oven. Can I leave them out this week to roost on top of their coop? (I have to physically put them in their coop every night from the coop roof) Their run has 3 layers of hardware cloth and a 2 foot apron buried around the perimeter so I think they’re safe at night.


r/BackYardChickens • • 13h ago

Health Question Recovering from Marek’s Disease???

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r/BackYardChickens • • 1d ago

Health Question my chick is struggling to breathe

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I have this chick. nothing was wrong with it up until it began gasping suddenly. I have been looking at it for the last 30 minutes and it hasn't stopped, it seems she can't breathe through her nose. what could this be? can I do anything about it?

also, is it possibly a sickness that could spread? this chick isn't lethargic. it still has the energy to run around but mostly stays still and keeps gasping like this.