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She seems to be walking around in a zombie daze, not eating human brains, not socializing with the other chickens. Reminds me of when I was a stoner in the 9th grade back in 1978. Look at how she does a "head swirl." Really strange! What's going on with her?Head swirl

Buck was an accident. We asked for all females from the breeder, but sexing isn’t 100% accurate. Wife said kill him now, but I felt sorry for how badly the pullets were treating him. He wouldn’t leave the roost, so I brought him food and water. I thought we were becoming bros. One day I picked...

In one large run: two light Sussex hens, light Sussex rooster, and my emotional support rooster, Mattie (FBCM). All was pretty calm until yesterday. One of the hens decided to go broody and sit on six eggs. Sigh. Fine. I noticed that the light Sussex rooster seemed to be spending an...

It looks like her right knee hyper...actually, over-extends. She’s putting all her weight on the left leg. About two weeks old. What do I do?

I've got a pretty big run that holds my FBCM emotional support rooster, Mattie, a young light Sussex rooster who is pretty chill, and two young light Sussex hens, one of which is already broody and sitting on six eggs. Discovered this at about the same time my 15 FBCM female chicks shipped from...

Backstory: I ordered 8 FBCM eggs off of eBay. None hatched. I asked the seller if she could send me more. She sent six more free of charge (except shipping). Only one hatched, and the poor thing was struggling for so long that I felt compelled to help it. I seriously didn’t think it was...

This hen was from my original flock from eight years ago. Last survivor. I figured I’d let her stick around even though she wasn’t laying much. I now have several more spent hens that I’ll have to cull, but that can wait awhile. My shipment of new female chicks won’t arrive until late February...

I had to cull her today. I was going to do that eventually after my order of new pullets grows up, but she was gasping for breath. I didn’t want to eat her because no telling what this disease is. Any clues? By the way, I’ve had chickens for eight years, and this was the first time I had to...

I'm trying to re-home these boys. How I got 5 cockerels from 7 eggs? Bad luck I guess. They imprinted on me, and are very curious and tame. They don't mind being picked up, except for one that I have to corner before he submits. I'm in Pensacola, FL, in the panhandle.

I know that at 6 weeks and three days is probably too soon, but I’ve had such awful luck with my rooster to hen ratios, that I’m getting a sinking feeling that I have 5 cockerels and 2 hens from the eBay eggs I hatched. Five are developing bigger combs and waddles than the other two. If the...

My first flock was all hens, so it didn't matter, but my second flock had an accidental rooster. He's been eating layer pellets for 5 years now. Didn't know the calcium could hurt his liver. I did feed them all chick start and grow until they were fully grown, however. The couple of times my...

They are 5 years old. Only 1 out of 7 hens laid any eggs over the summer, and that one has stopped laying about a month ago. I've noticed that they usually have decreased egg production during the hot summer months, but never a complete shutdown. I'm thinking about trying some artificial...

I've got 7 light Sussex chickens, about 5 weeks old. I've tried two different types of feeders, but still most of the chick starter winds up on the floor as bedding. It seems that they only want to eat the larger crumbles. The feed that is more like corn meal doesn't get eaten. I wonder if I...

Seven out of 8 eBay light Sussex eggs hatched! One little guy—that hatched yesterday—seems to lie down more than the rest. I don‘t want to make the same mistake I made with the FBCM Rooster Formerly Know As Matilda.” He was the only one of 14 FBCM eggs that hatched, and he had a crooked toe that...

I didn't have good results in the first 8 eBay FBCM eggs I incubated. Zero chicks. I asked the seller to send more because only three out of the eight were fertile. She agreed and sent 6 or 8 more. Only one of those hatched. Got a fine FBCM hen who lets me pick her up any time I want. I...

My handsome EE rooster did the "beast with four wings" with a cuckoo maran hen. I thought for the longest time the offspring was a pullet, but then it started sprouting sickle and saddle feathers. Bummer. Nothing endearing about him. Ugly, too. He'll be the first one I kill and eat in 8...

She’s smaller than momma hen (not her mom, I am) by two-thirds. She’s smaller than momma’s pullet by half. But she has learned how to be a chicken. She kicks the crap out of the grey pullet, and stands up to momma. Today, she kicked both their butts and made them go to jail.

The eBay seller I bought my original 8 FBCM eggs from sent me 10 replacement eggs because only 1 hatched out of the first ones. I did more research on how to treat the eBay eggs specifically, and incubating eggs in general. I let them rest pointed side up for a day, remembered to count day...

The one chick that lived from the 8 eBay FBCM eggs I incubated appears to be a pullet. Has a feminine look to her. She's about 8 weeks old today. I'm trying to get momma and her one pullet used to the FBCM by placing it in a small pen inside the run on weekends. I probably need to mover...

The one chick that hatched out of the 7 French black copper marans (dropped one) I ordered off eBay has a deformed foot. The left toe on the left foot is rolled under the foot. See pictures. What to do?