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Hey all. I have two silkies who have been sitting on a nest for about a month. They have two chicks, and decided that their remaining eggs weren't going to hatch & abandoned the nest today. The eggs were cold and scattered around in the dirt. I decided to check the eggs just to be sure they were...

Hi all. I went out of town on Saturday, and that afternoon before I left one of my eggs hatched. I have two broody Silkie hens that have been sharing a nest and eggs for about a month now. I also found a dead chick right before I left, which was sad but these things do happen so I didn't think...

Hi all - I'm trying to sell the last of my chicks, but don't want to sell boys as girls or vice versa. So I was wondering if you all could confirm if my guesses are correct or not for each of the following chicks. A few birds don't have tails because they were picked on; the tails are growing...

Hi all - I sold someone two eight week old chicks. She sent me this picture and told me one of the chicks is pooping blood. I have not noticed any of my chicks outside pooping blood(but they live outside now so it's possible I just didn't notice), and I think it's only one of the chicks. But...

Hi all - I am trying to sell some 8 week old chicks, but it's been quite a while since I sexed chicks this age. Help? What are the signs to look for? Here's some of the chicks I'm trying to sell/sex...

Hi all! We are butchering and processing our 3 cockerels this weekend, and I'm hoping it will convince my parents that we should raise meat birds. I've seen the conditions that even "humanely raised" birds are grown in and it's horrible. I would love for us to have our own meat birds. Freedom...

I've gotten very good at answering the "pullet or cockerel?" question myself, thanks to you guys. I have 4 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes that I got from a local breeder. One is no doubt a pullet, the others are cockerels. They got bright red faces with big combs and wattles long before the pullet...

Hi all. I have 2 or 3 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte cockerels. You can see the two here that are for sure cockerels and one that is for sure a pullet. The pullet is on the left and the two cockerels are on the right. Their saddle feathers are waaayy too long for them to be pullets. There's another...

What do you guys think the gender of these 3 birds are? I put down my guesses, but I'm not positive that I'm correct so I'd like your opinions. They are a little over 5 weeks old. BIRD 1; cockerel? BIRD 2; cockerel? BIRD 3; pullet?

Beautiful, high quality, HSR line Black Copper Marans COCKEREL. He has never shown any signs of aggression, and he has beautiful soft feathers. Located in Anderson, CA, but am willing to deliver or meet halfway for anyone nearby. He MUST go before he starts crowing. $10 takes him.

My Marans chicks are in the house in a brooder and are driving me nuts, they need to be moved outside. They're both fully feathered but not yet 3/4 the size of the adult hens, which is when I was told it is safe to start keeping them together 24/7. They all get along with the adults right now...

I want to put some probiotics in my chicks water, however I only have 4 and I water them with a standard size mason jar screwed into a chick-sized watering base. Can I mix up a gallon of the probiotics like the package says, and then refrigerate the rest? If so, how long would it stay good in...

I have a friend who met my chickens and fell in love with them(I swear it's a vicious cycle - I originally wanted chickens after I met a friend's hens and fell in love!) I'm helping her look at pre-made coops w/run, however it seems every coop I look at online with a built in run only has...

I have 3 different chicken breeds - Andalusian(1 blue, 1 black, 1 splash), 2 Speckled Sussex, and 2 Light Brahmas. I have read that the Brahmas are very likely to go broody and that SS often go broody, too. When I do get a broody hen, I want to hatch out eggs under her. I know someone who has...

I'm just going to copy and paste exactly what I posted on the Nor Cal thread(no takers there!) "Anyone want a Silver Laced Polish? He's crowed and is starting to get wattles that are bright red, so he's for sure a guy. Roos are illegal here and I really don't want neighbors to be unhappy with...

My silver laced polish chick had like a broken tail feather or something and they all started picking at it an within an hour his tail turned into a bloody mess. What do I do? How do separate it from the others? I only have the one brooder and the one heat lamp. It's 3 weeks old I'm...

I was emailing with a lady that I know, giving her some photography advice. She showed me a picture that she took of one of her birds, and said that it was a peacock x chicken. Here's what she said to me(by the way, they call the bird Twisted Sister): "She's one of a kind. Her mother was a...

I placed my order with McMurray yesterday! Yay! I'm getting my chickies around the 1st of May. By the time they're 6 weeks old, it'll be mid-July. Here in July our average daily 'high' is 99 degrees, and the daily 'low' is 66. Would they be able to start living outside at this time? I had to...

Hi guys! I hope I'm posting this in the right section. I finally got the go-ahead from my parents to get chickens!!! I've been to the feed stores but don't like their selection. They mostly only have RIR's, sex links, or straight runs. I want sexed chicks, and I'd like ones that are prettier...

I've read on a lot of sites that the biggest cost of chickens is the coop. I don't even know yet if I will be getting chickens, but I really hope I do. Ideally I would want 5 hens, so I would need a coop and run big enough for them. It does need to be predator proof - we have hawks, and some...