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A family member passed away unexpectedly and she has 3 incubators on the counter I am at a loss of what to do with. I was told there is a broody hen that she had been planning to put the chicks under, but I know nothing about the actual hatching process! Coming into this at the tail end is a...

Only thing I knew about these 3 ladies is that they came from red barn and that the largest one was older by a few weeks than the other two. Now that they've grown a bit, I am curious as to what breeds they might be. Big girl Henny Penny, smallish single comb and is same size now as my 2 year...

My barred rock hen has just one eye swollen and mostly closed. I can see her eye through her lids just a little and it looks okay. No discharge from it, the other eye is fine, and she's acting perfectly normal. My guess is my roo pecked her and got her good. Aside from keeping it clean and...

Not sure whether Fingers is a pullet or a roo. She/he is 7 weeks old, and has a very smallish comb, but what is making me think she is a he is that it will charge at me, and has for quite a few weeks now. Then just today it tried to fly at me feet first when I was still walking up to their coop...

We finally finished our very first coop today! A lot of trial and error, but I think it turned out okay :). The girls are spending their first night outside tonight! We still have a few things to finish over the next couple days, like proper roosting bars and finishing up the perimeter apron...

I have half a dozen 1 week old chicks, and they are my first chickens. Everyone is eating, drinking, and pooping normal. But I have some first timer questions. How hard or soft should their crops feel? Two of the chicks have crops that I can see plainly just looking at them, and they feel...

Soon to be first time mommy of 6 chicks here! Very thankful for this forum, it has been an absolute wealth of information. The babies aren't even here yet and I've run in and tweaked their brooder I don't even know how many times now after reading some new tidbit of information. These will be...