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Here’s the situation. I have 1 laying adult hen, 9 months old. I also have 4 chicks, 11 weeks old , that I have been slowly introducing over the past month. Everyone is co-habiting, but they are separated by baby gates, both in the run and in the coop at night. There have been minor skirmishes...

Hi everyone! We have 4, 3 week old chicks that we got as day old hatches from MPC. Swedish flower, Blue laced red Wyandotte, Super Blue layer, and Blue Copper Marans. They are all growing nicely and seem healthy but the Wyandotte is easily half the size of all the other chicks and just started...

Hi all. We started a flock of 5 from chicks back in February. 2 turned out to be roosters and were rehomed and we lost one pullet to what the vet said was mist likely a neurological problem. We are down to 2, an Easter Egger who has been laying well since she was 23 weeks and a Lavender...

I’m at my wits end! My 24 week old barred rock gal has become completely immobile. Can’t walk, can’t stand, has one leg stretched out behind her and one to the front or side, can’t clean herself so I’m having to clean her butt everyday. Still eating, drinking, pooping. This started a month ago...

we have a small backyard flock of 3 hens ( we started with 5 but 2 turned out to be roosters and had to be re-homed), since losing our last male, our EE hen has become very noisy! If she senses any activity outside the coop she immediately starts in with a pterodactyl like screech. Our other...

Need advice. I have 4 chickens 15 weeks old, that have been using a gravity type small chick waterer since they were a day old. I have tried unsuccessfully to switch them to a cup waterer which got dirty and they never quite go the hang of. Now I’ve got a nipple waterer in the coop that the...

So I have 5 chicks that I picked up as tiny day old littles that turn 6 weeks old this week and I am so ready to have them out in the coop and out of my bathroom! Here’s my dilemma: 2 of these chicks are now huge (Easter Eggers) 12 oz size, 2 are average (RIR and Barred Rock) 9 oz size and then...

This might be total paranoia on my part, but I am a newbie so please bear with me. I have 5 chicks who will be three weeks tomorrow. One of them is worrying me. Her weight gain has slowed quite a bit although she is eating, drinking and pooping. But what is most strange is that she is no longer...

Question about feed. We are feeding our chicks a medicated starter feed. The bag says that this should be fed till they are 18 weeks but I have read elsewhere that they need to move to “developer” feed at 6 weeks and then in to “layer” feed at 6 months. What’s the skinny? We bought a big bag of...

Hi Everyone! I’m a new chick mom- we brought home 5 babies last week, 2 Easter Eggers, 1 RIR, 1 Lavender Orpington and 1 Plymouth Rock. Got them all from a local hatchery where we were able to observe and hand pick them out. They are now just over a week old. They are growing well and have been...