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Yesterday I had a younger bird (one of my Marans) keeled over almost dead. It was hardly moving and was breathing so little I thought it was actually dead when I first saw it. The only reason I knew it was alive was because its leg moved ever so slightly after one of the other chickens bumped...

He's awful pretty! About 6 months old. I just picked him up today.

I recently got two BCM hens. One refuses to leave the nesting boxes and the other will sit on the little pole right outside. I knock them off and shoo them out to the run and as soon as I do they sprint back in right back to the same spot. I have nothing to prevent them from getting in the...

I have 19 chicks and the ones in this pen are between 5 and 8 weeks old. I had them on medicated starter until the second bag ran out a few days ago. I switched to pullet grower at the advice of the feed store person since about 60% of the chick starter was turning to waste dust. Today I saw...

This one I was told was in Amerecauna but she does not look like the other "true Amerecaunas". She lays a sage green egg. These two I were told were a barred rock and a cuckoo Maran. I believe these two are laying my extra extra large eggs (2.55 oz or larger) in two hues of brown. Are...

I live in Alaska and I'm just starting out with chickens. My birds were all doing fine until recently when the weather turned sour. They've been holing themselves up in the coop. I started getting a lot of soft eggs (1-2 a day from 11 birds.). I moved their free choice oyster shell into the...

I just got (relatively cheaply) two French Black Copper Marans and just about died. The woman transported them in damp, moldy boxes! I checked them over for mites/lice, etc before taking them and they appear to be healthy. No nasal discharge or sneezing or coughing. I pulled them out of the...

Picked these fellas up for free on craigslist today and they are destined for the crock pot but before I do I was wondering if you could tell me what breed they are. They are beautiful and I might consider letting them meet a few of my ladies for one last fling before they serve a higher...

I missed the boat trying to find someone to sex my chicks when I first got them (got them straight run but I was hoping to find someone to tell me.). Anywho, I have a variety of breeds and she's ranging from about 3 weeks to about 6 or 7 weeks. I'm almost positive of two cockerels as they have...

Since I can't post to Facebook without disgusting or horrifying family and friends this is the only place I can post. We only started chickens a month ago but have already built a flock of 13 egg hens and 19 chicks. We knew we'd have to cull any roosters that pop up in the bunch but we are a...

I have 19 chicks ranging in age from I think roughly 2 weeks to possibly as old as 6 but I'm not totally sure of ages as I was getting them in batches from different people. Some are quite large and they are just getting tooooo big for our brooders. My two littlest guys will probably stay in...

We have several consistent large egg layers. Our Cuckoo and our Barred Rock always lay eggs over 2.5 oz and tip my egg scale way past the XL mark. And my three leghorns occasionally contribute one in that size too. But today one of them layed a monster! My normal "XXL" eggs Today's beast!

I picked up 4 week or two week old pullets right before Easter and saw the box of colored chicks and couldn't leave without a few. They all appeared to be the same age and I bought five. All the others have feathered out nicely and have gorgeous white wings surrounded by their remaining...

I just got these two girls yesterday. I was told they are maran mixes that lay the deep dark eggs. Any idea what they might be mixed with? And this poor girl has a bald spot on her neck from her previous flock pecking her clean.

I just went out to check in the girls and found one of my marans with an injury. I just got her last night. When I got her she was pecked clean to the skin on her neck and had wing and tail feathers pecked out. The previous owner had 6 hens in a 2' by 3' coop with hardly any run. She said...

I checked my hens about 9pm because I thought one was thinking about laying (she was in a nest box.). I had to run out and checked them when I got home at 10pm. To my great dismay I found this on the poop board One hen was pecking at it and another had yolk in her comb. What is the deal and...

I went to pick up pullets right before Easter and was disgusted and appalled at the condition they were being kept in. The lady also had way more dyed chicks than she could get rid of (I'm still seeing her post ads for them on Craigslist.). I picked out five if them and even the one I thought...

I recently got two hens (one yesterday and the other the day before), one claiming to be a barred rock and the other to be a cuckoo maran. One of them laid an egg today but she hunkered in the box behind the ramp where it was dark and I couldn't tell which one it was. The egg is darker than a...

I have 19 chicks and my older ones have feathered out quite nicely. One of my younger ones though has gone completely bald on his back. I haven't noticed anybody pecking at him and the much older chicks (almost 4 weeks) are in a separate brooder so my little guys (almost two weeks) aren't...

I just introduced 4 new hens to my flock and I'm not really sure about it. I started out with two austrolorps. When I introduced three white leghorns my largest Australorp unmediated pecked two of them pretty good and drew blood but then stopped pretty quickly. They've been together for a...