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I bought 6 Black Giants from TSC. I have only 4 now after I (stupid me, in a hurry) squished 2 under the 1 gal waterer. The waterer is hanging now so that won't happen again. They are 5 weeks old, long legged and beginning to feather out. In the awkward teenager stage. I have noticed red wattles...

Keep us posted. Very interesting!

I have a three yr old bantam that has a crossed beak that looks just like your chick's. It appeared at about he same age. Her head/skull is a bit deformed and one eye looks a little different from the other. Just a tad smaller. She has held her own within my flock of standard size birds. I have...

I agree with RED HORSE RANCH. There really isn't much difference between 6 or 16 when it comes to chickens.

Update on my little flock...I just bought 8 Cuckoo Maran, 3 Ideal 223, 6 Black Giant and one Buff chicks. I will be adding them to my flock of Easter Eggers, Rhode Island Reds, Dominiques, White Leghorns, Bantam mutts and Silkie rooster. I haven't had babies in 2 years!

Welcome from Tuscaloosa!

Unbelievable!

I put the lid on my plastic container and cot out the middle of the lid with a heavy knife. Then zip tied chicken wire over the hole in the lid. That way the lid still snapped down securely.

I am in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Picked up 8 Cuckoo Marans Friday. They're in a Rubermaid in my cozy kitchen until this weather breaks.

Dried meal worms, spaghetti noodles, sunflower seeds and yogurt did it for me. Now they expect their treats. Even to the point of flying up on my shoulder, getting in my lap and pecking at my fingers every chance they get.

Mine are messy when they are digging through their feed looking for a favorite chunk. They usually clean up the spillage, though.

My babies and hens make a cooing similar to what you described when they are content. If it were a respiratory problem they would do it all the time.

Plastic Easter eggs didn't work for me at first. I went to Target and bought enough plastic ping pong balls. Loaded the nests up with them and viola! They finally got it and began laying in their nest boxes!

Ouchie

We have 3 White Leghorns. They are the most tame in our flock of Easter Eggers, Australorps, Sex-links, Seabrites & Rhode Island Reds. They are very nosey but funny at the same time. They are my pick of all our breeds.

I just replied to a previous thread with the same suggestion. Would hand feeding him some really yummy treats on a daily basis help? Do you think he could still be in pain from his "chickhood" injuries?

Have you tried hand feeding treats like dried meal worms?

My bantams vary. The Seabrite lays about 3 eggs/week and my Easter Eggers lay around 5 eggs/week. Egg color may be determined by the color of the chicken's ear lobes.

Theory is when you pull a mbr of the flock for about a week, they lose their place in the pecking order. Once things are reestablished, the newly reintroduced mbr is lower in the order and therefore less dominant or aggressive.

Pulled- quarantined, isolated or removed from the flock.