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My Chickens Star in Their Very Own Album Cover!
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My Chickens Star in Their Very Own Album Cover!

There's something gloriously extra about turning your flock into album covers, and I am here for it.
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Egg-cellent Substitute: Mashed Eggs to the Rescue When Chick Crumbles Run Out

Well, you know the saying: desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Rooster's Recovering! Coccidiosis Treatment Seems to Be Cluck-Tastic

Well, color me cluck-tastic and cautiously optimistic.
Broody Blues: Why Your Hen's Suddenly Obsessed With Nesting
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Broody Blues: Why Your Hen's Suddenly Obsessed With Nesting

One minute your hen is happily scratching around the yard, and the next she's a tiny, feathered gremlin guarding a nest box like it's Fort Knox.
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Dust Bath Dilemma: Keeping Your Chickens Happy (and the Mess at Bay!)

Ah, the classic dust bath dilemma.
Winter is Coming! Cluck-tastic Tips for Chicken Coop Weatherproofing
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Winter is Coming! Cluck-tastic Tips for Chicken Coop Weatherproofing

Snow's flirting with the forecast, and while I'm over here stocking up on hot cocoa, our feathered friends need a game plan.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Cluckingham Palace: Watch Peckington Square's Chickens 24/7!

There's a new kind of reality show unfolding in Peckington Square, and honestly, the drama is feather-ruffling good.
Our Sweet Ginger's Gone: A Heartbreak and a Final Farewell
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Our Sweet Ginger's Gone: A Heartbreak and a Final Farewell

There's a particular kind of quiet that settles in when a hen doesn't come running.
Rust Never Sleeps: Finding Forgotten Chicken Feeders is a Cluck-Tastic Challenge
Krissy’s Chickens

Rust Never Sleeps: Finding Forgotten Chicken Feeders is a Cluck-Tastic Challenge

There's a special kind of madness in hunting down a feeder that's gone missing in the barn, and honestly, I'm here for it.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Cluck Around the Clock: Meet Peckington Square's Chicken Cam!

There's something deeply entertaining about watching a chicken commit to a dramatic fluff-and-scratch routine at three in the afternoon, which is exactly why Peckington Square's new Chicken Cam has me completely hooked.
🐔The Happy Chicken Coop
The Happy Chicken Coop

Egg-cellent Summer: Keeping Your Chicken Eggs Cool & Cluck-tastic

Summer heat has a way of making even the calmest chicken keeper sweat, but nothing throws a barnyard curveball quite like a warm egg straight from the nest.
Suzie's Feeling Fowl: Is Our Queen Chickening Out?
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Suzie's Feeling Fowl: Is Our Queen Chickening Out?

Oh, Suzie.
Roadside Bantam: A Snuggle Bug Mystery!
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Roadside Bantam: A Snuggle Bug Mystery!

Well, color me cluck-tastic.
Feathered Floof Takes Flight: My Chicken Phobia Just Got a Whole Lot Weirder!
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Feathered Floof Takes Flight: My Chicken Phobia Just Got a Whole Lot Weirder!

So my latest brush with fowl play went exactly as you'd expect: I screamed, flapped my arms, and backed into a fence.
My Rooster's Zoomies: A Feathered Flash in the Pan!
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My Rooster's Zoomies: A Feathered Flash in the Pan!

There's nothing quite like a rooster who decides he's in a race against absolutely no one.
Cluck-tastic Identity Crisis: Is Our Hen a Secret Rooster?
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Cluck-tastic Identity Crisis: Is Our Hen a Secret Rooster?

There's nothing like a 7 a.m. wake-up call that sounds suspiciously like a rooster when you were promised a hen. This little lady, all 7 months of her, has been strutting and crowing like she owns the coop, and…
Mystery Chicks: Are These Sussex, Leghorns, or Something Else Entirely?
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Mystery Chicks: Are These Sussex, Leghorns, or Something Else Entirely?

Well, here's a feathered mystery that's got me clucking in confusion.
My Fearful Fowl Journey: How One Cluck Changed Everything
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My Fearful Fowl Journey: How One Cluck Changed Everything

There's something about a single cluck that can completely rewire your life.
These Gigantic Chickens Tower Over Me, and I'm 5'9"!
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These Gigantic Chickens Tower Over Me, and I'm 5'9"!

Standing next to one of these Brazilian Índio Gigantes, my 5'9" feels more like a suggestion than a measurement.
Coop Dreams & Chicken Woes: A Beginner's Tale
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Coop Dreams & Chicken Woes: A Beginner's Tale

Losing nine chicks overnight after a week of careful brooding is the kind of heartbreak that makes you want to chuck the thermometer across the garage.
Splayed Legs Got Your Chick Down? Our Feathered Friends Need Help!
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Splayed Legs Got Your Chick Down? Our Feathered Friends Need Help!

Well, here's the thing about splayed legs: they're a right pain in the feathery butt.
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My Phone's Now a Mite Motel—A Cluck-Worthy Cleaning Mistake

There's a special kind of chaos that comes with backyard poultry, and this mite motel situation is peak fowl play.
Our Porch Now a Chicken Ark: Flood Survivor Needs Help!
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Our Porch Now a Chicken Ark: Flood Survivor Needs Help!

Well, imagine our surprise when a flood delivers a chicken to your porch.
Comb Quandary: Is My Grey Chicken a Secret Roo?
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Comb Quandary: Is My Grey Chicken a Secret Roo?

Well, after a bout of sick days, it's cluck-tastic to see your flock back on their feet.
Our Quality Control Cluckers: Buttercup & Yankee Doodle Take Their Jobs Seriously!
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Our Quality Control Cluckers: Buttercup & Yankee Doodle Take Their Jobs Seriously!

Buttercup and Yankee Doodle might be young, but they've already mastered the fine art of fowl play, er, quality control.
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My Chicken's Water Belly: A Rollercoaster of Fear and Fluid!

There's something uniquely unsettling about playing chicken with a timer you can't see, isn't there?
My Marans are Fowl Play: Are They Secretly Australorps?
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My Marans are Fowl Play: Are They Secretly Australorps?

Well, color me cluck-tastic, but this is a feathery pickle if I've ever seen one!
Our Chickens Soared High: Remembering Feathered Friends We'll Miss
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Our Chickens Soared High: Remembering Feathered Friends We'll Miss

There's a special kind of quiet that settles over a coop when a familiar bald head isn't there to peek through the slats.
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Orlando's Fowl Play: Saving Chicks from the Butcher Block!

Well, isn't this a cluck-worthy predicament!
My "Fear-thered" Friends: Eight Chickens, One Hangout Crew!
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My "Fear-thered" Friends: Eight Chickens, One Hangout Crew!

Eight chickens, one hangout crew, and a whole lot of *fowl* play.
Our Heart Breaks: A Feathered Friend's Egg-ceedingly Sad Farewell
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Our Heart Breaks: A Feathered Friend's Egg-ceedingly Sad Farewell

There's no gentle way to say this: sometimes our feathered friends leave us brokenhearted in a single, brutal moment.
Meet the Kuroiler: India's Egg-cellent Feathered Friend!
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Meet the Kuroiler: India's Egg-cellent Feathered Friend!

Well, cluck me sideways, the Kuroiler is the kind of bird that makes you want to start a backyard revolution.
My Backyard View: A Chicken's-Eye Perspective (And Still Scares Me!)
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My Backyard View: A Chicken's-Eye Perspective (And Still Scares Me!)

There's a certain honesty in admitting that your backyard view comes with a side of pure terror, and that's exactly what /u/Secret-Ad1320 captures here.
JLo: My friendliest feathered diva, cluck-tastically!
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JLo: My friendliest feathered diva, cluck-tastically!

Some chickens are aloof.
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Feathered Friends Fowl Play: Keeping Silkies Safe (From My Fear!)

Silkies are basically tiny, feathered Houdinis with a flair for drama, and this post proves it.
Cluck! What's Up With My Chicken? Send Help (and Advice)!
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Cluck! What's Up With My Chicken? Send Help (and Advice)!

There's nothing quite like that heart-drop moment when you look at your flock and just *know* something's off.
Quail egg hunts: tiny treasures, big clucks, zero regrets.
Krissy’s Chickens

Quail egg hunts: tiny treasures, big clucks, zero regrets.

There's nothing quite like the thrill of a quail egg hunt, especially when those little speckled treasures are tucked away like nature's own game of hide-and-seek.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Cluck-tastic! Peckington Square's chickens are now live, 24/7.

There's something wonderfully chaotic about watching chickens live their best lives, and Peckington Square Chicken City Livestream 24/7 Cam captures every cluck-tastic moment.
Feathered fiends and fowl play, a cluck-tastic terror takes wing.
Krissy’s Chickens

Feathered fiends and fowl play, a cluck-tastic terror takes wing.

One minute you're tossing scratch grains, the next you're staring into the soul of a creature that has absolutely no fear of you.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Cluck-tastic 24/7 livestream: Watch Peckington Square's fowlest residents.

There's something wonderfully ridiculous about watching chickens live their best lives in Peckington Square, and I mean that as the highest compliment.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Cluck-tastic: Watch Peckington Square's feathered fiends live, 24/7!

There's a whole feathered city block party happening right now, and you've got a front-row seat.
Feathered Frenemies: Why Dads and Chickens Just Don't Mix
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Feathered Frenemies: Why Dads and Chickens Just Don't Mix

Dad's generation will chase a rogue rooster with a broom and a grimace, muttering about "the blasted bird." My generation? We're standing on a chair, phone out, live-streaming the chaos with a caption about "fowl play."…
Left in Question: 14 Weeks of Feathered Fowl Play
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Left in Question: 14 Weeks of Feathered Fowl Play

Ah, the eternal backyard question: hen or rooster?
The Mystery of the Speckled Egg: Did a Sneaky Chicken Strike Again?
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The Mystery of the Speckled Egg: Did a Sneaky Chicken Strike Again?

Well, color me cluck-fused!
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Flipped Out: Rescuing a Roo Who Forgot How to Chicken

Found one of our chicks flipped on its back, legs pushing forward instead of underneath, and honestly?
Tail Feathers Tell Tall Tales, But That Tiny Comb Says Hold On
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Tail Feathers Tell Tall Tales, But That Tiny Comb Says Hold On

Well, isn't that just the classic feathered fib?
Teenage rebellion over: my last chick finally clocked in!
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Teenage rebellion over: my last chick finally clocked in!

Well, would you look at that, one of Aromatic_Living_598's girls finally earned her keep!
Guess who left us an egg-cellent mystery this time?
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Guess who left us an egg-cellent mystery this time?

Well, color me cluck-tastic, that tiny egg in the middle is quite the mystery!
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Cluck-tastic Tech Upgrades for Your Feathered Friends' Comfort

Cameras, an auto coop door, and now solar-powered load cells for the food and water?
Five chicks, a fresh cluck-tastic start, and Filemón says hello!
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Five chicks, a fresh cluck-tastic start, and Filemón says hello!

Five chicks.

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