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Cat steals the show as his confidence crumbles over a stolen snack
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Cat steals the show as his confidence crumbles over a stolen snack

There's nothing quite like the look of pure betrayal on a cat's face when his favorite snack gets hijacked by a bunch of clucky hooligans.
When your chicken starts quacking, it's not fowl play: it's just egg-citement
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When your chicken starts quacking, it's not fowl play: it's just egg-citement

When your chicken starts quacking instead of clucking, it's easy to assume some serious fowl play is afoot.
Help us crack the case: what cluck-tastic breeds are these two feathered friends
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Help us crack the case: what cluck-tastic breeds are these two feathered friends

Oh, the eternal chicken breed guessing game, my favorite kind of fowl play!
When Your Flock's a Foul Case of Mistaken Hen-tity
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When Your Flock's a Foul Case of Mistaken Hen-tity

Oh, the heartbreak is real when you're expecting a cozy flock of hens and instead get a surprise crow-off.
Cyrus is clucking us a good morning tune and we're honestly egg-cited
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Cyrus is clucking us a good morning tune and we're honestly egg-cited

Cyrus is clucking us a good morning tune and we're honestly egg-cited.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

24/7 Live Chicken Cam Lets You Watch the Fowl Play from Your Sofa

So, there's a chicken cam.
Crowing or just clucking? Help me ID my teenage flock
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Crowing or just clucking? Help me ID my teenage flock

So you've got a teenage flock that's part crow, part cluck, and all confusion.
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Is my chick heat plate broken if it doesn't feel hot to my hand

Oh, I feel this one in my bones, and my slightly singed fingertips.
Leghorns got the memo: this cuddly rebel clearly skipped the reading
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Leghorns got the memo: this cuddly rebel clearly skipped the reading

Leghorns got the memo: this cuddly rebel clearly skipped the reading.
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Cluck-tastic Tips for Welcoming Rescued Battery Hens to Your Flock

Losing a beloved hen after three years together is always tough, and we're so sorry for your loss.
Pants, our darling feathered friend, lost to a brutal fowl play
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Pants, our darling feathered friend, lost to a brutal fowl play

We lost our darling Pants to a brutal cat attack, and honestly, my heart is still doing that weird fluttery thing that has nothing to do with feathers.
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This Redditor's chicken story is the cluck-tastic content you didn't know you needed

/u/Nice_Caterpillar9169 shared a chicken story so perfectly chaotic it feels like it was written just for us.
Who needs sunlight when your mystery hen is too cozy for a photo shoot
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Who needs sunlight when your mystery hen is too cozy for a photo shoot

Who needs sunlight when your mystery hen is too cozy for a photo shoot?
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Chickening out is totally okay when your feathered friends stage a fowl revolt

So your chickens have unionized and staged a full-on fowl revolt?
This watermelon is egg-citing enough to make even the bravest chicken-lover cluck
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This watermelon is egg-citing enough to make even the bravest chicken-lover cluck

A watermelon so egg-citing it could make even the bravest chicken-lover cluck?
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

24/7 livestream lets you watch Peckington Square's fowl antics live

If you've ever wondered what your chickens are plotting when you're not looking, Peckington Square's 24/7 livestream has the answers.
A feathery mystery: can you guess if this peep is a pullet or a cockerel
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A feathery mystery: can you guess if this peep is a pullet or a cockerel

Welcome to the cluck-tastic world of chicken gender guessing, where a single peep can leave even the most seasoned chicken-lover chickening out!
Mabel's zombie blink is the fowl play we never saw coming
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Mabel's zombie blink is the fowl play we never saw coming

Mabel's zombie blink is the fowl play we never saw coming, and honestly, it's cluck-tastic.
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Two Roosters, One Flock, and a Whole Lot of Fowl Play

Two roosters, one flock, and a whole lot of fowl play, that's the egg-citing dilemma we're cracking into today.
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A Hen's Scary Fox Encounter Leaves One Strange Symptom Lingering

Well, here's a cluck-tastic mystery that's really ruffling my feathers.
Our Bantam Rooster Declares Coop Independence Just in Time for Winter
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Our Bantam Rooster Declares Coop Independence Just in Time for Winter

Oh, the audacity.
Our first home-hatched chicks might be double trouble: rooster twins
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Our first home-hatched chicks might be double trouble: rooster twins

Oh, the suspense is *egg*-cruciating!
An extra chick arrived in our brooder: and we're not chickening out yet
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An extra chick arrived in our brooder: and we're not chickening out yet

We ordered 30 chicks and got 31.
Our new favorite tapestry comes from a chickenless fan who thinks we're all adorable
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Our new favorite tapestry comes from a chickenless fan who thinks we're all adorable

There's something genuinely heartwarming about being called "adorable" by someone who doesn't even own chickens.
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Cluck-tastic snacks for your baby chick: veggies and fruits they'll actually love

Oh, the eternal quest for a veggie-loving chick, because let's be real, sometimes our feathered friends act like they'd rather peck our eyes out than try a blueberry.
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My Rooster Took a Three-Day Vacation and Came Back Clucking

We've all had that heart-stopping moment when a beloved feathered friend vanishes into thin air.
🐔Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam
Peckington Square Chicken City Live Cam

Peckington Square's 24/7 Chicken Cam Is Egg-citingly Feathery Fowl Play

We've officially lost our minds, and our hearts, to Peckington Square's 24/7 Chicken Cam.
Mystery pullet lays pale aqua eggs but acts like a game hen
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Mystery pullet lays pale aqua eggs but acts like a game hen

Okay, I love a good chicken mystery, and this one is full of fowl play.
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The Great China Cabinet Escapee Returns After a Three-Day Fowl Mystery

For three days, I thought that chick was a goner.
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Our five-week-old buff Orpington is down: anyone else seen this cluck-tastic mystery

Oh, a hunched-over Buff Orpington who'd rather nap than eat?
When collecting eggs goes full fowl play
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When collecting eggs goes full fowl play

There I was, basket in hand, ready for a peaceful morning harvest.
🐔The Happy Chicken Coop
The Happy Chicken Coop

Keep Your Cool (and Your Chickens) With Smarter Summer Coop Airflow

Summer heat turns a happy flock into a bunch of panting, grumpy featherballs, and that's when things get fowl.
Cluck-tastic Chicken ID: Help This Redditor Name Their Feathered Friend
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Cluck-tastic Chicken ID: Help This Redditor Name Their Feathered Friend

Oh, a mystery chicken!
Our new rooster charmed the hens: no fowl play here
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Our new rooster charmed the hens: no fowl play here

Well, color me egg-cited, our new rooster strutted into the coop and the hens didn't even stage a protest.
That window chicken is both a cluck-tastic pal and a total fowl
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That window chicken is both a cluck-tastic pal and a total fowl

That window chicken is both a cluck-tastic pal and a total fowl.
When Your Textbook Rooster Starts Acting Like a Hen, the Cluck-tastic Confusion Begins
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When Your Textbook Rooster Starts Acting Like a Hen, the Cluck-tastic Confusion Begins

So you've got a textbook rooster who won't crow, and your mom's chicken expert friend says she's a hen.
Cluck-tastic mystery: Who laid that pretty blue egg in my flock
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Cluck-tastic mystery: Who laid that pretty blue egg in my flock

Oh, a pretty blue egg mystery, now that's the kind of fowl play I can get behind.
Hurricane refugees turn my coop into an egg-citing new flock
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Hurricane refugees turn my coop into an egg-citing new flock

The sight of panicked hens dodging falling trees in a hurricane is the kind of fowl play that breaks your heart, and then makes you act.
My feathered friends are plotting something: and I'm both proud and terrified
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My feathered friends are plotting something: and I'm both proud and terrified

I spotted Meatball's swollen face in that frantic post the other day, and now here comes another feathered friend with a secret plot.
Meatball's swollen face has us clucking for advice: help a frantic fowl friend
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Meatball's swollen face has us clucking for advice: help a frantic fowl friend

Oh, Meatball.
From 4 quail hatchlings to a clumsy mama's first parenting test
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From 4 quail hatchlings to a clumsy mama's first parenting test

From 4 quail hatchlings to a clumsy mama's first parenting test, she did it!
Chicken or Quail Mystery: and Our Feathered Friend Needs a Name
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Chicken or Quail Mystery: and Our Feathered Friend Needs a Name

Well, this little mystery guest is giving us serious "quail or chicken?" brain scramble. She's got the patterned plumage of a quail but is absolutely, 100% chicken-sized, which means our feathered friend is playing a…
Strike a pose, ladies: photoshoot day for our feathered friends is here
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Strike a pose, ladies: photoshoot day for our feathered friends is here

Strike a pose, ladies: photoshoot day for our feathered friends is here, and honestly, I'm both egg-cited and a little terrified.
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When Your Flock Sounds Like a Tiny Symphony of Sneezes

Oh, a tiny symphony of sneezes, that's one way to put it, though I bet it's more worrying than musical when it's your own flock.
Our rooster's gone wobbly overnight and we're totally chickening out
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Our rooster's gone wobbly overnight and we're totally chickening out

Oh, a wobbly rooster overnight?
Why I trade grocery aisles for feathered friends and fresher eggs
Krissy’s Chickens

Why I trade grocery aisles for feathered friends and fresher eggs

I cracked open my first store-bought egg the other day and felt absolutely nothing, no surprise, no connection, just a bland, identical orb.
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Clucking Ethical: The Fowl Facts on Choosing Your First Breed

Oh, the horror of broiler chickens is right, it's enough to make anyone question what we've done to these poor feathered friends.
Rooster overload: when your flock has more crow than cluck
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Rooster overload: when your flock has more crow than cluck

Six to eight roosters?
🐔The Happy Chicken Coop
The Happy Chicken Coop

Sippy cups for chickens: automatic waterers that won't ruffle your feathers

You're telling me I can give my chickens water without sprinting away from the splash zone?
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When the heat rises, will my feathered friends make it through summer

Oh, a Super El Niño brewing down under, that's enough to make any chicken parent's heart race a little faster.

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