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Update: this chick survived and is doing great! I just helped another one after viewing the egg and seeing the same issue of the membrane stuck and dry to it. It doesn't look like it will survive at this point. Trying not to get my hopes up because 'farm life'. I try not to be like the little...

What a lovely bunch of young ladies.

We had a hen go broody and had 8 eggs under her. 2 were pipping yesterday and this one pipped last night. I woke up to one dead out of its shell and the other one was cracked and crushed. I thought it was dead and so when I went to clean it out, I gave it another tap and it peeped at me. Brought...

Pale skin. 3 toes. Tried catching him earlier and he gave us the run around. Finally got ahold of him when they roosted for the night.

This rooster, Spex, is about 7 months old. He was pure black when he came out of the shell, but has changed significantly since he was little. He came from a free-ranging farm that had a bunch of different breeds of hens and roosters. My other chicken friends don't have many ideas for me in...

We bought a farm 1.5 years ago that had a coop already so I begged my husband to let me get chickens from a lady needing to get rid of her flock. We started with 5 which quickly turned into 10 and then 15, lost a few to some sort of illness, 1 to a prolapse, then hatched a clutch in an incubator...