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I picked up 6 adult meat birds earlier this year. Unfortunately the weather got bad, and I wasn’t able to butcher them when planned. Long story short, they were sick, and all but one died within two weeks. I felt bad for her, since she survived the sickness and crazy weather, so I pardoned her...

This guy/girl is 4 months old. It looks identical to my 6 month old turken pullet, but it’s comb and wattles are much more developed than my other 4 month old pullets. I haven’t noticed any rooster behaviors, nor have I seen it be mounted by my rooster. It doesn’t look like it has the typical...

My broody hen hatched some chicks yesterday morning. One of the other hens tried to “steal” the babies by pecking them to try and get them under herinstead of the mom. I put the offending hen in solitary until she calmed down (she’s now back to ignoring the chicks), but one of the babies was...

I can home to find my favorite rooster dead. All other chickens are accounted for. His only injury is to his head. There is blood all over his face and comb, but nowhere else. My first though was hawk, but he doesn’t have any claw marks, and his neck doesn’t seem to be broken. I have a BB...

I am doing my first incubator hatch, and I’m super excited! I’ve been waiting so long to have an incubator and hatch my own eggs. I have a Nurture Right 360, and my eggs are on day 8. One Wednesday, our power went out. I’m not sure how long the incubator was off. The power was on when my...

I bought a Standard bronze Turkey poult from a place that sells birds from Ideal Poultry, but I’m starting to worry she is actually a Broad Breasted Bronze. Is there a way I can tell the difference? I just weighed her, and she’s 31lbs at 25 weeks old, which is 11lbs over the weight listed on...

My 3 month OEGB has always been a little off. He eyes don’t seem proportional to her head. It’s been more noticeable lately, because most of the time her eyes are closed. She does open them to eat, and walk around, but most of the time I see her, she’s sleeping. I’ve tried looking in her eyes...

This little guy/gal is almost 9 weeks old. Based off the lack of comb and wattles, I was sure I had a girl, but these flowing, pointier feathers are giving me pause. This is my first Polish chicken, so I’m not sure if these are normal Polish feathers, or saddle feathers.

One of my broodys’ chicks got stepped on. I found the poor thing on the ground this afternoon and thought she was dead, but she was just in shock. Since bringing her in and giver her sugar water, she’s perked up a little, but can’t walk and only opens one eye. I’m 50/50 on where her she’ll...

I’m kind of freaking out, because this injury is a lot bigger than I thought I’d have to deal with. My naked neck is about 10 months old. The rooster is about 6 months. Today I came home, let them the chickens in the backyard and the rooster chased her under the porch. I found her huddled by a...

I got these two chicks out a bin marked “crested”. I didn’t look closely enough, and thought they were polish, but they have feathered feet and an extra toe. The closest thing they look like on the hatchery website is the Standard Sultan, but in their picture of Standard Sultans, the chicks are...

I’ve had my rooster for almost 2 months. He’s about 5 months old. He’s been great, except for his treatment of his ‘favorite’ hen. She’s a silkie mix, and a little slow. She had some trouble with wry neck after a head injury, she’s long recovered from that, but I think she got some brain damage...

Okay, this is a little confusing, but I’ll try to explain it the best I can. In my first coop, I have one rooster, 9 hens/pullets, and two ducks. I have 10 feathered out chicks that are 7/8 weeks old in an outdoor “brooder”. 6 of those are meat birds and will be processed next weekend, and 1...

Hey everyone, I have a first time broody hen. She’s a satin silkie, about 7 months old. I am ridiculously excited about having a broody hen, so I don’t want to get too ahead of myself, but how long should I wait before putting fertilized eggs under her?

I have a 7 month Naked Neck that has been loosing feathers in a strip from her vent to her chest. The skin there is very smooth and soft, not red or irritated. She still lays an egg a day for 5 days, then takes a day off. She used to eat an all flock feed, but I changed that to chick grower...

I bought “her” as a sexed EE pullet about 7 weeks ago, but I’m not too sure. “Her” comb is the same same size and color as her sister’s, but the color has me worried, and the tail feathers are pretty curly. “She” is also visibly bigger than her sister. Please excuse the messy feathers, I took...

My 4 month old Silkie is having some trouble with her neck. It kind of curls to the left, or she has it tucked under her stomach. I can try and get some pictures, but she’s a black Silkie, and it’s a little hard to see under all that fluff. I believe she got injured when a chick waterer fell of...

I just noticed one of my silkies has a weird beak. It doesn’t look like a lot of the pictures of cross beak I’ve seen, but I haven’t been able to find many pictures of mild cases. It looks like her beak is kind of curved to the right. It looks different than all the other chicks. It’s kind of...

I just lost all but one of my flock today. I came home and they were dead, except the Rooster, who was confined in his own pen due to a leg injury. Whatever it was attacked during the day and killed them all without eating them. We live kind of rural, but we have a fenced back yard for the...

I started enclosing the bottom of my porch to add to my chicken run. I’d like to attach it to the coop, so that they can go out there in the mornings before I let them out, or anytime we have to be away for too long. So, I bought some 1/4in galvanized hardware cloth to use to predator proof...