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A couple days ago I discovered one of my 5 year old bantam Cochin hens had two abscess on her comb. One is larger, brownish in color, and located near her nostril. The second is smaller, white, and near the back of her comb. Later I found two more white abscesses on her feet on the areas...

Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice on how I might be able to keep my roosters after a move. We're moving from a farm in Kansas to a residential/suburban house in Tampa, Florida and there are so many rules! :he (I am SO not a city girl.) I've lived on this farm for nearly 20 years and I've been...

I have 7 shipped hatching eggs under broody hens right now; 3 cochin eggs and 4 d'uccle eggs. I candled at day 11, and all but one of the d'uccles looked perfectly normal. (I use this Candling Progression post to reference if my eggs are looking normal/healthy.) The one d'uccle egg appeared to...

I have six nine-week-old bantam Cochin chicks, one of which suddenly turned up sick for no known reason and with something I can't identify. I hatched and raised the Cochins with mother hens, one of which decided to wean her four babies on Friday morning. The other mother hen, her two chicks...

I've been looking around for Tolbunt Polish to buy, either hatching eggs or day old chicks, and I've found a few breeders that sell them. I want to try to make sure I get healthy, good quality birds though, and since I know the Tolbunt has had some inbreeding issues in the past, I thought I...