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i picked this chick up several weeks ago from tsc out of the assorted bantam bin. any ideas what it is?

So I have a random assortment of backyard chickens. My roo is a buff Cochin bantam. There are four standard hens. An EE, a cuckoo marans, and two white Sussex. I've noticed the roo doing his business with all the hens, but figured with the size difference, the eggs would be infertile. About a...

i have a wood dummy in the nest. remove her egg every day. (no other hens are laying yet). she's been laying for about a month. today she refuses to leave the nest. i went under her and pulled out her one egg. she's still sitting on the dummy. went i get near her she "fluffs and growls" at me...

thought this was extremely sad. http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=14945332

sorry for pic fuzziness.

found someone near me who had cuckoo marans. they had 5 chicks.one, i was sure was a baby hen. the others, not so much, but i hated to take a lonely chick home. so, i got one of the others. i'll take pictures later to get other opinions. oh, and i still don't have the coop yet. it's coming in...

I'm thinking about adding some cuckoo marans and light Sussex to my flock. What are good prices on these? Locally (south Georgia) I see people have the marans for $2 or $3 each. Are they a good bird to have? Are they friendly, gentle? They will be pets mostly. The sussex are listed upwards of...

we found the chicks we wanted at the local ace, but they didn't know the hatch date. their shipment came in on 4/6. i'm assuming they were hatched that day, or the day before. is there a way to tell by looking at feathers? ours have the pin feathers on the wings which are beginning to 'feather...

we're somewhat new to chickens. my parents have barred rocks and silver laced wyandottes. we just bought a new house 'out in the country', so naturally we decided to get chickens. last week we picked up two ameraucaunas (i believe they're silver, but i'm not 100%). we also have two cochin...