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I have a friend that is incubating eggs for the first time. She placed them in yesterday. When she went to turn them today she noticed the shells went from an almost white color to a darker cream color. Anyone know what could cause this? It's a homemade incubator and she is manually turning...

What breed and variety would you say this is? I'm filling out poultry show forms and have no idea what to list this girl as

I've never seen it before but my little barred rock, almost 3 months old, looks like it's trying to crow but nothing sound wise comes out. I can't post the video but this is the little one making funny chicken faces if it helps.

To all my awesome chicken friends here can you help me figure out what breeds these are

We resued 2 hens from a family that is moving. We put them in the coop with 7 other girls and seem to do fine so far, only about an hour ago, except the rooster attacks one of them. I'm talking really attacks them like trys to fight her. I know it's a hen cause she lays eggs. She looks just...

What breed are these two? Roo or no? As always thanks for all the awesome replies

My hen was attacked by my dog and I need help to try and get her better or save her. It looks like only skin torn away and one hole. What can I do? I can't believe the rotten luck I'm having my poor babies What can I put on it to clean it and make it start healing

Is this little chick safe where he pipped? I can hear it chirping away. I don't want it to die

It's not much but the two new fluffy babies have a little condo to stay warm and grow for a bit. They'll have brothers and or sisters in the next few days hopefully. Should be good til they can go in coop I hope

Ok all knowing friends. Can someone give me an idea as to what these may be breed and sex?

Found this in the coop this morning. What causes a hen to lay this? It's like a water balloon

I came home this afternoon and found my daughters chickens very overheated. I rushed them in the house into a cool tile bathroom, fan and sprits with water. After having some ice water and food all seem well and are walking around but one. She's eating and drinking but is not standing and her...

We have several chickens and two were regular egg layers. 1 a day each. They are close to a year old and doing good but all of a sudden we haven't had any eggs from either of them. Is this common ? We haven't seen eggs in probably a month now.

Hello all We finally have fresh eggs. After hatching and raising our our chicks they finally started laying eggs. Have two eggs we picked up today (happy easter) we are going to try and incubate them and see what happens. I'm warming our incubator up now and was wondering can I put eggs in...

We purchased our Ideal 236 from a local feed store. They told us they were all hens and my daughter could just pick one. They let her reach in and hand pic her own. This little chic is growing up nice and big one but its comb and waddle are as big as our rooster. How do I tell male from...

Hello everyone! i am new to ducks. I have hatched several chicks from eggs provided by our neighbor. this go around she gave us 7 chicken eggs and 24 duck eggs. i have no idea what they are. They are a mix of different ones so its a surprise to all of us if they hatch Do duck eggs...

These are new baby chics we hatched from a mixed group of eggs. We know 3 are bard rock hens. Unless you think utter wise please correct me. We are new to this. My question is the 4th one. It's the solid black one Its a black with like a redish brown tint and its little feathers developing on...

We are on our first hatch and each day as of yesterday evening we have a beautiful gift every morning. These are the first two of 14 eggs. Oct 9, Oct 10, Oct 11 soon to tell. One brown egg and one blue egg baby

Hello all. Have a few questions. I have two sets of incubating eggs. The first 4 we received Saturday Sept 20th. The second set we received Sept 24 (the following Wednesday). Being that they are close to the 21 day mark do I take them out of the turner now, add water with sponges...

How can you tell a barred rock female from male? A new chic 4 weeks old has some large n long tail feathers and we were told its suppose to be a hen. Thanks in advance for advice