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5 week Olds X3 2 have light feathering, 1 dark since hatch and still the same. Sex linked? Dark one has more feathers at shoulders too Double laced gold show quality hatched from shipped eggs. 2 boys and 1 girl?

I bought shipped barnevelder eggs, 4 hatched out of 12. ( 6 were not fertile. 1 didn't hatch, other one was picked on by other hen and died ) 1 of them doesn't have the chipmunk stripe, is this normal? They were suppose to be show quality. Also how do I tell if rooster or hen?

My purple and yellow climbing beans are at their end of season, is it ok to let chickens forage around and clear that garden bed for me if no more beans are growing? Or are the leaves / vines or ground toxic too?

10 month old Silkie pullet, not started laying yet. Jerks neck strangely like trying to get food unstuck, full large crop, can't feel any seeds/chick grower. Possibly eating wood shavings but I have seen her regularly eat normal feed. She is unstable/ offbalance sometimes and has droopy wings/...

Help please! Silkie hen, yellow in poo, blood found on roost overnight, bloody yellow bottom 😢

Winter is the worst, rain and muddy puddles 😩 My coop is built on dirt and is wet from the ground being wet underneath I think. I have added bags of sand to help and it has worked for a while but now the sand is wet and won't dry out. Any ideas what I can do? I have 22 Silkie chickens at the...

I've tried Ivermectin (3rd dose now), permethrin spray (again last week), add permethrin powder to dust bath area also spray roosts every couple weeks. and just now I saw his poor feet bleeding so half filled Icecream container with extra virgin olive oil and dunked him in. What else can I...

What to do? I tried cornflour and now bandage it but chick keeps trying to get it off. Other chicks near pecked it's foot off!! What to do!!?? ..also how long will it take for foot to heal/ no blood visible? So if I can get bandage to stay will it be hours or days before I can take it off and...

2 day old.didnt have problem yesterday. Maybe hen squashed it? Anything I can do? Can't walk properly. Leg stuck out backwards. Edit to add more pics...

😢 Burtle the cockerel only a few months old, wobbly to walk or not at all, lays down mostly Any advice? I have vitamin water and feed chick starter currently. Doesn't seem interested in food but had a few pecks at it. I really love this boy and wanted to keep him 😭 my previous cockerel (in...

🎄:jumpyI couldn't find a Christmas Hatch-Along to join so I'll just start one here! If anyone is hatching around Christmas time feel free to join in, I do love pics!! Set date for chickens is about now! :wee My 9.5 year old Silkie went broody yesterday as I expected. She lays 12 eggs then goes...

1st time broody Silkie on eggs for 2 nights Eggs were cold when I checked just now when she was off - could have been off for at most 3 hours since I last checked she was on them. She got on the nest but only put half under her. I shoved the rest under - she has 8 eggs. Question, do I break...

Today one of the 3 chicks mother hen Puff is caring for is wobbly and unstable on its feet, frequently sitting and resting. Rocks back and forth frequently. It seemed to like me holding it and fell asleep, didn't even cherp to mumma hen as they would normally. Poop is normal not red/ bloody...

I'm sick of waste! What to do with those small tiny powdery bits leftover that chickens don't seem to want to eat? Out of my 20kg feed bag there's at least 500g that chickens don't want to eat. I have tried water/ making a mash with some and they eat about 20g out of the 80g I make up that day...

I have a little Silkie chick I noticed has a slight cross beak. Anyone had this issue before- what are some tips to raise this one? Or is it best to cull? Will it get lots worse? Also anyone know why this happens? Genetic? I shouldn't use him/her for breeding just in case? 11 days old Broody...

I changed out my infertile rooster for another rooster (his son) I had them separated between a fence so they could see each other still hopefully making integration easier for this reason. My main coop has 6 hens and a 10 month old cockerel and did have my old rooster but now new rooster.o So...

One or my roosters keeps mating my broody hen in the nest. I haven't put eggs under her yet and I'm guessing they may break if I do put eggs under her. I have my nest in a communal area so they can hatch and raise chicks in the flock but it is possible I could fence her off but then she would...

How often can you use Ivermectin? One of my roosters has scaly legs and I last dosed him 17th June with Ivermectin. But also dewormed with BigL 17 Aug. I know Ivermectin is suppose to deworm also but forgot I gave Ivermectin :he .. But then do I use Ivermectin again now or is it too close...

If I kill (broomstick method) a chicken in front of my other chickens will they know what I've done and be scared of me? - So it would be better to take the chicken away from the flock so they can't see me killing it? Just thinking this because I need to get rid of my rooster that isn't...

Silkie hen, not laying for a over 2 months now (Winter here) ..was broody over 2 months ago and I broke her in the usual broody cage and she wasn't broody anymore but I have noticed she keeps sitting and doesn't move around much. Occasionally I'll see her foraging with the others but often she's...