How would you persuade your rooster to take his aspirin?

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A better picture of Milo Milano Click Clack Cookie Heartsong (Milo for short)

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My chickens aren’t spoiled... anyway here’s their mealworm gumball machine

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Feeling broody? #targetdresschallenge

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she has it all... but at what cost??

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Sigh.

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One of my hens tail is developing differently, please tell me she's not a rooster

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Nothing says happiness like wine and a pet chicken on a Friday afternoon

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The Bro-house. My 3 roosters hanging out in their bachelor pad.

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An unlikely friendship. This splash silverrud chick got scalped by her hatch mates and separated. The duckling's hatch mate died and it was left all alone. After a week of being next to each other in seperate cages the duckling escaped its daytime playpen and was screaming to get in. New BFFs

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I just wanted to read in the hammock...

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For real🤦‍♀️🐓 right next to the coop door. Why would they do this 🫤

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Beautiful honeydew melon I was growing, just a couple weeks from perfection and my fucking chickens found it!!

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Guess who just stopped a chicken homicide at the hands of a fox! You bet your butt she got a slice of roast beef after going above and beyond the call of duty

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In honor of Independence Day I am sending you a nice quiet fireworks display of flowers And a chicken LOL

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My sweet pigs and chickens are so cute together

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Fred’s a Lover Not a Fighter

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This chicken has been living in my yard for like 2 months and since it looks like she is here for good I was hoping for a breed ID

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Who feels just a little bit smug?

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Album cover?

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nesting box visitor 🐍

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Please identify this chick.

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What kind of chickens are these?

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Peach looking goofy

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Picture of all the animals of my household!

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Tiniest egg we've ever seen from our hens.

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Are these hens really Brahma's?

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This friendly hen just by the bus stop. She’s not afraid of people and has been hanging out in the area since last week.

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Why do my barred rocks look so different?

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First time posting here - Wanda and I say hello! So glad to have found other crazy chicken people!

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If a hen goes broody will she leave the nest if you take the other hens eggs and leave hers?

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Meet Rainbow, Phyllis and I believe, a long lost relative

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The price of egg these days, amiright? Good thing we have chickens. 🥲

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I thought my 2 chickens were freloaders, I found all these in my garage this morning

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Girls finally started paying rent! Looking at roughly $600 per egg.

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I heard an extra loud peeping coming from the brooder room.

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My chickens wont come out of their coop because of the cold, but that means they aren’t eating or drinking! They are shivering and I’m worried about them. What should I do? Bring them inside? (Pic for attention)

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Got these hens 2 months ago, as they grow I'm getting more worried that at least some of them aren't hens?

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Can I get in trouble for taking in a wild animal when the wild animal just moves in on its own? Lol

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After 5 months of laying, my hens have officially fully paid thier rent!

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Broody silkies have taken to co-parenting after successfully hatching 1 chick.

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Might be the most inappropriate box to take her to the vet in.

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She's my guard chicken

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I think I interrupted their conversation

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Cruella turned out to be Crowella, but I love him all the same 🥰

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The chicken crop is coming in nicely this year.

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My friend asked me how much for some farm fresh eggs. I told him I will sell them at cost, so these will be $200 each.

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[Turkeys] this is one of my female turkeys. Everytime I'm near, she'll run right up to my leg, do this pose, and freeze up until I walk away. She isn't aggressive though. What does this mean?

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Someone was looking for hens to draw - this is my Ginger. I miss her dearly. I love all my girls, but we had a special bond. RIP, beautiful girl.

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This may not be a big deal for most, but I just got my first egg! Laid by my 18 week old Silkie, Hay-hay (it's so damn tiny, I love it)

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need help identifying a breed. Google wasn't helping.

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I was finally blessed! This chicken likes to sit on heads... And she finally chose mine!

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Yesterday there was only one. Today...

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The perfect roost doesn’t exi-

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Velociraptor chook in the snow?

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Alrighty, I need help, chickens & summer heat, how do I help them stay cool?!

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Meet Pippy, one of the newest members of my flock!

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Help me welcome our new and only roo King Tut to our flock of 28 hens.

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Shirley doesn’t take kindly to neighborhood strays in her yard. 😂

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Any tips for leaving hens alone for an extended period of time?

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My black copper marans rooster was killed by a racoon. Luckily I had a dozen eggs, but they were in the fridge for a couple weeks. In a last ditch effort incubated them anyways, here is the result a few months later.

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Looks like a good time

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Peach jumped up on the chair with me for the first time 💕

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Does breeding for personality/disposition actually work?

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our rooster cream legbar, Is he pretty?

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Got the bastard!

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For reasons known only to them, all 3 of my barred rock boys wanted to sit on this cat carrier

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UPDATE on how the sick chick is doing.

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so one of our hens is apparently a quail cosplaying as a chicken

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RIP Begonia, our sweet satin silkie that was killed by a hawk on Christmas. She died a hero tackling the hawk off our seabright chicken. We've installed netting over every inch of their free range space as reflectors stopped working.

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Backyard chickens? More like backyard chonkins

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Every time o try and take a picture of the Guinea’s .... Lol

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I seeeeee you 🤣

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That B*tch Carole Beakins

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r/Quails is a dead sub so I wanted to post here. My first quails ever. 42 jumbo browns!

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Our beautiful boy Brincos 🐓💞

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Ms. Mother Clucker is fancy

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Tired of being cooped up? Time for a stroll...

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Before and after

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My little roo Frijole passed on today from Mareks. He was 7/8 that have passed on from the disease. No one prepares you for the devastation of losing your flock slowly. Sending lots of love to all your flocks ❤️

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HAPPY FRIDAY! 📢🐔

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Is this little one going to make it? New to chicken raising.

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Neighbor wins for Most Impressive Way to Lose a Hen.

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Broody silkie + fresh bedding = chicken sawdust pile

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Just showing off my rooster

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Incubation

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it seemed to be a sad day all around for chicken keeper's today so in light of that what is your favorite thing about chickens makes you laugh anything one of mine is how cute when they tail feathers start to grow 🤗

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Shout out to smoke. Hawk landed on fence and this guy chased it off. Taking care of my chicks.

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Not my girl. Just love this picture.

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Broody buddies 🦆🥚🐓

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Is chicken jail the punishment or reward?

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Wanda went to the vet today to have a prolapse checked out. She decided that she was the vet now...

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Got an early Christmas present - glorified poop shoes

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Could I transform this treehouse into a chicken coop/run?

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Found out how Penny likes to be pet, and now she's my best bud.

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I didn't think it was possible, but after this year's molt I think her butt has gotten even fluffier than it was before

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So trying to figure out this whole Easter egg thing. Am I doing it right?

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Our Pyrenees is a house dog, but sometimes he chills with our backyard flock so he can pretend he's a farm dog 🐶

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Does anyone else have actual chicken-keeping LAWS that are this specific??

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We’re getting some rescue girls this weekend. Here’s a picture of the little coop I’m building for them.

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My first pair of chickens 😁 tips on how to earn their trust & affection? They want nothing to do with me so far.

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Went to put the chickens up tonight. They were all huddled up blocking the door.

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Butters snuck inside today, she was really pleased with herself

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Anyone else’s ladies just flop down for an adorably awkward nap? These are my first chickens and every day they do something new and entertaining!

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Did a rooster write this???

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Nala has murder on her mind

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Peck The Halls!!

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Any ideas on the cause of this?

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Lost a girl to heat stroke

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Shrimp exploring the garden ☺

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Why yes, I must sit on my mom. Why do you ask?

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Walter, the amnesiac pigeon chicken!

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Any love for turkeys?

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So, it’s safe to have this heater on the coop floor like this, right?

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guys....

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The first chick is born! He’s kind of running around and crashing into the other eggs. He’s the first one, will him and the other eggs be ok? I heard not to open it until all have hatched but he’s been running and crashing into the other eggs pretty hard

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Built our first coop for our girls!

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This is Yolko Ono. She sat in my lap to bring me down from a panic attack. She’s a very good chicken.

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Sometimes my chickens just like to lay a marble

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A digital painting I did of my favorite hen, Apple. She was killed by a fox on Memorial Day.

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Snow chickens!!

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My chicken plants are coming in nicely...

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Mathilda, one of the four lovely dwarf ladies that moved into my yard recently. I love them a lot <3

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My new rooster. I think he's an ameraucana of some kind.

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Hen suddenly greying in face and waddles... unable to find anything similar online... More in comments.

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6 Day old chick needs help.

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You may enter, but only if you have worms!

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Sasha wears her heart on her sleeve!

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My first babies!! I'm so nervous... Any tips or advice you have is needed!!!

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Merry Christmas from Marie

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Cracked our first egg from one of barred rocks!

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I painted a rooster

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Mama hen is angry, and she is SWOLE.

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So many times I've come home to find these two napping together

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Chickens.

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After digging our heart out this spring, I would be impressed with the animal that was able to dig a tunnel in this Carolina clay. Just in case though, a foot out and a foot deep hardware mesh lined barrier it is! I’m grateful for the things we have learned from the sub!

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Fabio The Polish Rooster ❤️

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Melted chicken: it’s been cold here and warmed up today. The warm sun melted the Buff Orpington. She is alive.

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My boy just chilling in the dirt.

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Found this on Facebook lol

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Is my chicken evil? Don’t sugar coat it please

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We had been planning this for a while, the quarantine certainly gave us the time to make it a reality!

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Just got this egg from one of my chickens...

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This is Karen, my favorite chicken and the friendliest chicken we have. She comes when we call her and runs up to say hi when she sees us. She's one of around 35 chickens we have

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My flock has lymphoid leukosis.

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Chicken coop and greenhouse this morning in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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I’ve transformed into my final form - chicken lady

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Everyone Meet Hank. My first rooster!

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