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From Cluck-tastic to Egg-citing: Hunting the Ultimate Chicken Breed Poster

So you want a chicken breed poster that actually has *all* the breeds?
Our son calls this chicken so ugly it's cluck-tastically cute
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Our son calls this chicken so ugly it's cluck-tastically cute

There's a fine line between "bless your heart" and "bless that face," and one Redditor's son has apparently found it.
My neighbor's chicken went missing and came back with a cluck-tastic surprise
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My neighbor's chicken went missing and came back with a cluck-tastic surprise

So, u/thedeuschebag85's neighbor had a chicken go missing, and it came back with a cluck-tastic surprise.
This feathered friend won't crow or lay eggs: is it a secret roo
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This feathered friend won't crow or lay eggs: is it a secret roo

So you've got a chicken that doesn't crow *and* doesn't lay eggs.
Finding My Happy Place: Channeling a Chicken's Joy in the Dust
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Finding My Happy Place: Channeling a Chicken's Joy in the Dust

You know that blissful look a chicken gets when it finds the perfect patch of dirt to flop into?
12 weeks in and still guessing: hen or rooster?
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12 weeks in and still guessing: hen or rooster?

Twelve weeks of chicken parenting and you're still playing the great feathery guessing game?
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Mites are having a full-on fowl party in my coop and I'm not invited

Well, you've got yourself a full-on fowl party in the coop, and you're definitely not on the guest list.
My Blue Maran's tail is doing a downward slope: anyone else's feathered friend a little fowl-shaped
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My Blue Maran's tail is doing a downward slope: anyone else's feathered friend a little fowl-shaped

Oh, a downward-dipping tail on a Blue Maran?
Our girl's purple comb and weight loss have us clucking with worry
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Our girl's purple comb and weight loss have us clucking with worry

Oh, a purple comb on a feathery friend, and weight dropping like a stone, that's enough to make any chicken parent's heart do a little fowl-flutter.
Dusting off my courage to face the feathered fiends in my backyard
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Dusting off my courage to face the feathered fiends in my backyard

There's something uniquely humbling about having to dust off your courage just to step into your own backyard.
My senior hen's got a torn comb and I'm clucking worried
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My senior hen's got a torn comb and I'm clucking worried

Oh, a torn comb on a senior hen, that's enough to make anyone's heart cluck a little faster.
Meet my mystery bird: is he chicken, ostrich, or some kind of fowl trick
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Meet my mystery bird: is he chicken, ostrich, or some kind of fowl trick

Oh, a mystery bird that's double the size of an Azura Blue and runs like an ostrich?
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When a bobcat strikes and the vet's out, do you dare make the cluck-call

Oh, a bobcat attack and no vet in sight?
This morning's double runs are egg-citing proof fowl play pays off
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This morning's double runs are egg-citing proof fowl play pays off

This morning's double runs are the kind of egg-citing proof that fowl play really does pay off.
When the feathers fly: beak trimming tips for your molting, moody clucker
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When the feathers fly: beak trimming tips for your molting, moody clucker

So your normally sweet clucker has turned into a moody, feather-flying menace, and yes, it's because she's molting.
Meet Sharita, the fluffy-feathered chick who's a total puffball
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Meet Sharita, the fluffy-feathered chick who's a total puffball

Meet Sharita, the fluffy-feathered chick who's a total puffball.
When Your Feathered Friends Refuse to Coop: And Winter's Knocking
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When Your Feathered Friends Refuse to Coop: And Winter's Knocking

Oh, the classic standoff, your feathered friends staring at the warm, safe coop like it's a trap, while winter's creeping in like an uninvited guest.
When blue jays scream, my neighbor's chickens flee into my secret shrubbery
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When blue jays scream, my neighbor's chickens flee into my secret shrubbery

When blue jays scream, my neighbor's chickens flee into my secret shrubbery.
These feathery divas are serving looks and I'm honestly chickening out
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These feathery divas are serving looks and I'm honestly chickening out

These feathery divas are serving looks and I'm honestly chickening out.
My tiny chick's straining to poop and still rocking baby fluff
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My tiny chick's straining to poop and still rocking baby fluff

Oh, the dreaded baby chick poop standoff.
New Chick Energy: Cluck-tastic Chaos Hits the Coop
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New Chick Energy: Cluck-tastic Chaos Hits the Coop

So you got new chicks.
Beak-a-boo: Is That a Hen or a Roo Playing Fowl Tricks on You
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Beak-a-boo: Is That a Hen or a Roo Playing Fowl Tricks on You

Is that a hen or a roo?
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My rooster's head went upside down: here's how we're fixing it

One of my roosters turned his head completely upside down, and let me tell you, it's as unsettling as it sounds.
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The fowl truth of burying your feed scoop deep in a pellet bin

Ah, the fowl truth of burying your feed scoop deep in a pellet bin, is there any better feeling?
This mystery chicken thinks people are just giant feathered friends
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This mystery chicken thinks people are just giant feathered friends

Some chickens are skittish, some are broody, and some are just...
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My Hen's Playing Hide-and-Seek With the Coop Again: and One Eye's Squinting

One eye squinting, tail feathers drooping, and a coop that might as well be invisible after dark, this bantam hen is serving up a mystery that's more fowl play than a bad pun.
The suspense is egg-cruciating: gender reveal at last for this feathered friend
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The suspense is egg-cruciating: gender reveal at last for this feathered friend

The suspense is egg-cruciating, and I'm pecking at my keyboard in anticipation.
Why Your Chicken's Chest Bone Shouldn't Be This Easy to Find
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Why Your Chicken's Chest Bone Shouldn't Be This Easy to Find

Oh, a bony chest on a feathered friend is never a good sign, and u/shanimals82 knows it.
This feathery giant is giving me cluck-tastic nightmares
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This feathery giant is giving me cluck-tastic nightmares

This feathery giant is giving me cluck-tastic nightmares, and honestly, I get it.
When a hen skips breakfast, her egg might tell you why
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When a hen skips breakfast, her egg might tell you why

One of our hens laid this egg today, and honestly, it's a bit of a cluck-clue.
This Chocolate Orpington is Ruffling My Gender-Detecting Feathers
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This Chocolate Orpington is Ruffling My Gender-Detecting Feathers

There's nothing like a chocolate Orpington to make you question everything you thought you knew about chicken gender.
Help a cluck-less chicken parent name their feathery friend
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Help a cluck-less chicken parent name their feathery friend

Naming a chicken is a sacred duty, and a cluck-ing nightmare when you're fresh out of ideas.
Treats lured them in but the crow call stole the show
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Treats lured them in but the crow call stole the show

Treats lured them in, but the crow call stole the show, and honestly, I'm not surprised.
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5 Lovely Little Roosters Need a Home: Help Me De-Cluck My Coop

Five roosters from one batch of bantam eggs?
Slinging some TLC: is your chick's hangout height just right
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Slinging some TLC: is your chick's hangout height just right

Oh, bless your heart, and your little chick's leg.
Cluck-tastic Halloween costumes for your feathered friends: what's your pick
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Cluck-tastic Halloween costumes for your feathered friends: what's your pick

Halloween is coming, and your feathered friends deserve to join the spooky fun, even if they'll spend the whole night side-eyeing you from behind a bush.
These pretty lil boys have my heart: and my nerves
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These pretty lil boys have my heart: and my nerves

These pretty lil boys have my heart, and my nerves.
Morning clucks and toddler commentary: my kind of egg-citing chaos
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Morning clucks and toddler commentary: my kind of egg-citing chaos

Good morning, indeed!
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Is that chicken dandruff normal or a sign of fowl play

Oh, the eternal question: is that chicken dandruff, or is something more sinister afoot?
Cluck-tastic dilemma: To treat or not to treat a failing hen
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Cluck-tastic dilemma: To treat or not to treat a failing hen

Oh, the eternal cluck-tastic dilemma, do you intervene or let nature take its fowl course?
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Three rowdy roosters have my hens running for cover: time to break up the flock

Oh, the drama in the coop!
That mystery chick is giving us major fowl play vibes: help us crack the breed
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That mystery chick is giving us major fowl play vibes: help us crack the breed

Oh, a surprise chick in the order, nothing says "fowl play" quite like an uninvited guest with a mysterious identity.
Odard the rooster is getting cocky: and we've got little kids to protect
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Odard the rooster is getting cocky: and we've got little kids to protect

Odard the rooster is getting cocky, and with little kids to protect, that's a problem that's both egg-citing and terrifying.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Peckington Square gets a 24/7 livestream for your fowl-watching pleasure

So, we've gone and done it, Peckington Square now has a 24/7 livestream, because who doesn't want to watch our feathered friends strut their stuff at three in the morning?
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Connie's gone from clucky to sleepy and we're already clucking worried

I'm already clucking worried about Connie, and it's only day one.
These scrungly little nappers have no idea how egg-cellent life is
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These scrungly little nappers have no idea how egg-cellent life is

These scrungly little nappers have no idea how egg-cellent life is, do they?
Mr Bogie McGee and I are calling it a cluck-tastic night
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Mr Bogie McGee and I are calling it a cluck-tastic night

There's something oddly peaceful about winding down with a chicken who looks at you like you're the one who's lost your marbles.
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Feather keepsakes from feathered friends: cluck-tastic or a little too fowl

I keep feathers from my departed flock in a special jar, with my favorite chicken's feathers getting their own spot.
Meet Plumera and Chara: my feathery twins with the waviest curls
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Meet Plumera and Chara: my feathery twins with the waviest curls

Meet Plumera and Chara: my feathery twins with the waviest curls.
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My poor hen is losing feathers, getting bullied, and I'm totally clucking lost

Poor hen, losing feathers, getting bullied, and you're totally clucking lost.

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