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My feathered friends flew the coop and my heart just can't take it
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My feathered friends flew the coop and my heart just can't take it

Oh, the coop is quiet, and my heart is doing the chicken dance of despair.
100 Days of Wyandotte Mystery: Hen or Rooster Hide-and-Seek
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100 Days of Wyandotte Mystery: Hen or Rooster Hide-and-Seek

Okay, I have exactly 100-day-old Wyandottes running around my brooder, and I am *clueless*.
My chicken doesn't have a license but she runs this truck
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My chicken doesn't have a license but she runs this truck

So this chicken doesn't have a license, but she runs the truck anyway?
Why my rooster turned the dinner pecking order into fowl play
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Why my rooster turned the dinner pecking order into fowl play

So my rooster decided dinner time needed a little *fowl play*, and honestly, I'm not sure whether to laugh or lock the coop.
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When thunder claps and the coop door fails, two feathered friends are gone

Oh, that thunderstorm really did a number on your heart, didn't it?
My feathery little murder machines adore me for some reason
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My feathery little murder machines adore me for some reason

My feathery little murder machines adore me for some reason, and honestly?
When your chicken's eye gets a little swollen, should you start clucking for help
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When your chicken's eye gets a little swollen, should you start clucking for help

So your chicken's eye is looking a little puffy, on *both* sides, no less, and now you're wondering if you should start clucking for help.
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Tiny garden, tiny flock: is a bantam the fowl for you

So you've got a tiny garden, a serious case of chicken-keeping nostalgia, and a very pretty flower bed you'd rather not have turned into a dust bath.
This feathered friend is turning sunshine into serious fowl play
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This feathered friend is turning sunshine into serious fowl play

Sunshine and chickens: a combo that sounds peaceful, right?
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Feathers for Breakfast: A Clucky Case of Chick-on-Chick Plucking

Oh, the plot chickens!
One lucky rooster just scored fifteen hens and his forever flock
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One lucky rooster just scored fifteen hens and his forever flock

One lucky rooster just scored fifteen hens and his forever flock, talk about winning the cluck-tastic lottery!
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

24/7 Chicken Cam Has Us Clucking at Peckington Square

There's something oddly hypnotic about watching chickens live their best lives at 3 a.m., and Peckington Square's 24/7 Chicken Cam delivers exactly that brand of fowl play. I'll admit it, I tune in when I should be…
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My rooster's fowl play has my ameraucana hen clucking for cover

Oh, the betrayal.
Magnetized cluck-tastic love for our feathered friends until the end
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Magnetized cluck-tastic love for our feathered friends until the end

Oh, the sheer *magnitude* of this cluck-tastic collection!
Is your chicken's tongue flipped or just fowl play?
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Is your chicken's tongue flipped or just fowl play?

So, your chicken's tongue looks flipped, and you're wondering if you're dealing with a genuine anatomical oddity or just some fowl play from your feathered friend?
This bantam hen ditched the nest for a wood shavings bag
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This bantam hen ditched the nest for a wood shavings bag

Well, this is a first, a bantam hen who decided a wood shavings bag was a better nesting spot than the actual nest.
Feathers and fond memories: Remembering the goofball hen we lost to a snake
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Feathers and fond memories: Remembering the goofball hen we lost to a snake

I was just scrolling through YouTube when I stumbled across a few feathers scattered around my room, feathers that belonged to my sweet, goofball hen.
Cluck-tastic Holy Land delivery: Artza Box review for the whole flock
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Cluck-tastic Holy Land delivery: Artza Box review for the whole flock

I'll admit, when a box shows up at my door promising a taste of the Holy Land, I get a little nervous.
Beak splits and pecked backs: when feathered friendships turn fowl
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Beak splits and pecked backs: when feathered friendships turn fowl

Oh, a split beak and a pecked-back buddy, sounds like your flock has turned into a fowl drama club!
Our 24/7 Livestream Peeps on Peckington Square's Fowl Play
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Our 24/7 Livestream Peeps on Peckington Square's Fowl Play

There's something deeply unsettling, and deeply hilarious, about watching chickens stare you down through a screen.
Two coops, one question: will your built-in vents ruffle any feathers
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Two coops, one question: will your built-in vents ruffle any feathers

Oh, the eternal coop conundrum, ventilation!
Hen or Roo Let the Great Chicken Leaf Hide-and-Seek Begin
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Hen or Roo Let the Great Chicken Leaf Hide-and-Seek Begin

Oh, the eternal chicken question, hen or roo?
A wobbly chick, a bent leg, and a whole lot of cluck-tastic worry
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A wobbly chick, a bent leg, and a whole lot of cluck-tastic worry

Oh, that poor little chick.
Egg-citing name debate: our feathered friend needs a cluck-tastic title
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Egg-citing name debate: our feathered friend needs a cluck-tastic title

So, someone out there is actually crowdsourcing a name for their chicken.
From unwanted rooster to beloved Buckbeak doppelgänger, we kept this handsome fellow
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From unwanted rooster to beloved Buckbeak doppelgänger, we kept this handsome fellow

Some roosters are just meant to stay.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Chicken City's 24/7 Livestream: Fowl Play You Can Watch All Day

Ever tried to catch a chicken?
Meet Mansita, my hefty hen, and Perõcho, the featherweight layer
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Meet Mansita, my hefty hen, and Perõcho, the featherweight layer

Meet Mansita, my hefty hen, and Perõcho, the featherweight layer.
A Bantam stole my heart and now I'm chickening out
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A Bantam stole my heart and now I'm chickening out

A Bantam stole my heart, and now I'm chickening out?
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Beak Break Blues: Help for a Ruffled Rooster in Need

Oh, a beak snapped clean off, that's the kind of fowl play nobody signs up for.
Horchata's fighting a respiratory bug but still clucking strong
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Horchata's fighting a respiratory bug but still clucking strong

Poor Horchata, fighting a respiratory bug with swollen eyes and still clucking strong.
Adorable baby chicks? Sure, but watch out for the fowl play
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Adorable baby chicks? Sure, but watch out for the fowl play

Look at them!
Is this normal? My 2-year-old chickens are dropping feathers and I'm clucking worried
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Is this normal? My 2-year-old chickens are dropping feathers and I'm clucking worried

Oh, the feather-drop panic, I know it well.
Help a fellow chicken fan ID their mystery rooster and white hen
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Help a fellow chicken fan ID their mystery rooster and white hen

Oh, a mystery rooster and a white hen, now that's the kind of fowl play I can get behind!
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Our Feathered Friends Are Now Live: 24/7 Cluck-Tastic Chicken Cam

Our Feathered Friends Are Now Live: 24/7 Cluck-Tastic Chicken Cam It's egg-citing and a little terrifying, our new 24/7 Chicken Cam is finally live.
Meyer Hatchery mystery chick at 9 weeks: anyone brave enough to guess the breed
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Meyer Hatchery mystery chick at 9 weeks: anyone brave enough to guess the breed

Nine weeks old and still a mystery, that's the kind of egg-citing suspense I live for.
Our flock's in fowl play: bullying or a feathery cry for help
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Our flock's in fowl play: bullying or a feathery cry for help

Oh, a raccoon massacre *and* a potential hen-pocalypse in the pecking order?
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Beak snapped clean off: how it happened and what comes next for this feathered friend

Oh, a snapped beak, talk about a rough day for a feathered friend.
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When a chicken's health keeps clucking back, is it time to face the fowl truth

Oh, the heartbreak of a hen who just can't catch a break.
Eye issues in 3 of my 15 hens: fowl pox or something cluck-worse
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Eye issues in 3 of my 15 hens: fowl pox or something cluck-worse

Oh, three of your fifteen hens with eye issues, that's the kind of fowl play that makes even the bravest chicken tender a little nervous.
When the chicken judge gets judged, even the cluckiest can't escape the fowl play
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When the chicken judge gets judged, even the cluckiest can't escape the fowl play

You know that moment when you're all set to judge some chickens, feeling pretty clucky about your expertise, and then *bam*, the fowl play turns on you?
Between clucks and cocktails: when your roosters start speaking after one too many
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Between clucks and cocktails: when your roosters start speaking after one too many

So there I was, minding my own business, perhaps a few cocktails deep, when I swear my roosters started trying to have a real conversation with me.
Our rescue hen's got a mysterious hard lump by her beak: any cluck-tastic ideas
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Our rescue hen's got a mysterious hard lump by her beak: any cluck-tastic ideas

Oh, a hard lump by the beak, now that's a head-scratcher that goes beyond the usual fowl play.
Bench hens: feathery friends perfecting the art of doing nothing together
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Bench hens: feathery friends perfecting the art of doing nothing together

So you've got a hen that just… sits.
These claw-some custom nails are egg-citingly cluck-tastic, even if they're not real
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These claw-some custom nails are egg-citingly cluck-tastic, even if they're not real

Cluck-tastic nail art alert!
Black hearts on a ginger chick? This sweetheart has us cluck-tastic
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Black hearts on a ginger chick? This sweetheart has us cluck-tastic

Black hearts on a ginger chick?
Our feathered friend's fowl play leaves us egg-citedly checking for missed spots
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Our feathered friend's fowl play leaves us egg-citedly checking for missed spots

I love my feathered friends, but sometimes their fowl play leaves me egg-citedly checking for missed spots.
Penny's beak is broken: cluck-tastic advice for worried chicken parents
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Penny's beak is broken: cluck-tastic advice for worried chicken parents

Oh, Penny.
Stuck on the ground? Show us your coop setups and cluck-tastic enrichment
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Stuck on the ground? Show us your coop setups and cluck-tastic enrichment

Stuck on the ground with your flock?
Sand, specks, or sinister eggs: help this clucker crack the case
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Sand, specks, or sinister eggs: help this clucker crack the case

Oh, a sandy, sinister egg cluster?
Cluck if you know: my feathery mystery is one egg-citing identity crisis
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Cluck if you know: my feathery mystery is one egg-citing identity crisis

Oh, the eternal poultry puzzle, is it a hen or a rooster?

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