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Hello everyone. I have 5 pekins - a drake and 4 females. The drake and 2 of the females have been together here since they were ducklings and are now 4 years old. Last summer we took in 2 rescues that have leg issues (big swollen joints, probably improper nutrition as ducklings) and after their...

I got these 3 chicks from Tractor Supply and they *thought* they were Easter Eggers. I ended up with 1 roo and 2 hens. The hens lay green/olive eggs. All three have varying amounts of cream color on them, plus some black. One hen has a crest, one doesn't. The roo, named Chunk, is just stunning...

Sold at Tractor Supply as a Rhode Island White. But......it looks like a Delaware to me.

I just got back from being away for a week and walked into a mess. I had a hen I discovered right before I left that seemed to have been suffering from in impacted crop. Not wanting to surgically empty her crop before going out of town, I massaged the heck out of it for the few days before I...

I already had one chicken like this that I ended up putting down. Her oviduct was FILLED with huge lash eggs. Now I have another one with the same symptoms except I seem to have caught it sooner and several months later, she is still alive but no change to her belly. In both cases, it seems to...

Hi all. I have a 1.5 year old red sex link that is ailing, but her story is a longer one. Just over two months ago, we did emergency surgery on her for an impacted crop. Pulled out a ton of long grass that was all bound into knots. Closed her up with super glue and a tegaderm bandage and hoped...

I'm not even sure what happened, honestly. Two chicks hatched this morning. All seemed well, but then about an hour ago my daughter went in the coop and both chicks were bloody and ripped up and underneath the broody hen in the next box. They were NOT under the hen who hatched them. And when we...

If I noted everything correctly, Vader (just had to do it - only black chick out of 4 born on Star Wars day!) comes from an black Australorp hen and my barred rock roo (my other roo is a buff orpington, so I don't think he was the winner here - lol) Initially, when Vader started...

Hi all. I picked up some turkey poults on Wednesday (hatched Tuesday) and one of them has been "off" since day one. First, it only has had one eye open The other one stays shut If I pull gently, I can open the lid, but the poult itself won't open it or keep it open. Second, I have yet to see...

I have an Ameraucana chick that will be 4 weeks on Tuesday. A few days after we got her, she developed what I thought was mild pasty butt, cleaned her up and she seemed fine. But now, this past week, she's been having bouts of constipation where she had HUGE poops that she can't pass on her own...

Hi all. A few months back, I was able to successfully treat a hen with a significant prolapse and wanted to share what I did in hopes it can help others. I first noticed Sugar had a prolapse after investigating the cause of her dirty butt. She's a 2-year-old Plymouth rock. I saw right away at...

Last September, we had a broody hatch out one chick and I can't for the life of me figure out who the mother is. I know I didn't put a buff orpington egg under the broody so that leaves the buff rooster as the dad. Potential moms - white plymouth rock, red sex link, barred rock, white pearl...

or what I assume are her hatch mates since they all shipped together. Ordered from Townline Poultry. Hatched 10/26. They are Isa Browns, which I have read there is no bantam version of, so is she just a little runt? I've started calling her Peanut because she's so little. A few photos of...

I had a broody who wouldn't give up, so I stuck 4 eggs under her back in August and she hatched out one chick. Not really thinking ahead, I didn't make note of WHAT eggs I gave her so now I'm wracking my brains trying to figure out what mix of breeds little Nugget could be. Nugget hatched on...

This is the only one of my 3 silkies that I have not witnessed crowing, and this seems to be hen-like behavior. It''s been doing this all day in various corners of the coop, but we haven't found any egg yet. I'm really hoping this one is a girl - the other 2 are boys and are already getting...

I saw another post today that said something about yellow feet so when I was out there, I took at look at my 4 lorps. Turns out Tiki here has yellow feet while the other 3 have pale feet. So that would make him a Jersey giant, right? He also had more lighter coloring as a chick and also seems...

Silkie 1. Was the best picture I could get as he/she wouldn't stay still. Silkie 2. Silkie 3. By far the fluffiest of the three and the only one with any substantial head pouf.

So I posted this a while back, wondering what sex two of my australorps were.... https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/972336/what-sex-are-my-australorps-edited-tiki-update-at-bottom Sneezy is indeed a pullet. Still has a small, pale comb and no wattles to speak of. I also think it's safe to...

So, we processed our first batch of 6 cornish yesterday and, of course, AFTER I stuck them in the freezer, I read that I should have left them in the fridge for a day or two first to let the rigor pass. Sigh. I love being able to raise our own poultry, but I feel like we still have so much to...

Hi all! Love this forum and have found it so helpful. Quick question to those with buffs. Are there sex indications as the chicks start to feather out? We got six straight run chicks that are now 3.5 weeks old. Five of those chicks sprouted long wing feathers right after we brought them home...