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I have a one year old Tom. He lives in the barn. I let my chickens free range in the day and lock them in a stall at night. Yesterday I went to the barn to check waterers and Tom was standing over a hen that was flopping all over the floor. I shoo'd him back, picked her up, looked for something...

This very tiny egg came from a young white silkie. In the pictures it is next to a regular sized brown egg, the same silkies regular sized egg and a quarter for reference. After I got some good pictures and had to crack it open and see what was inside. It had mostly white with a little bubble...

Is it normal for the skin area around the vent to be red on a rooster that is "with" hens? It isn't just red in a circle around the vent, it is the whole bottom from tail to legs. I have two roosters each with their own flock and noticed (while they were pecking scratch on the ground) that both...

I have a 9 week old RIR cockerel. Last night he was fine. This morning his neck is twisted. He held it up a couple of times while I was checking feeders/waterers. I carried him in and put him in a chicken hospital and helped him drink. He's keeping his head almost under his tummy and rolled over...

This is my second batch of eggs. 11 out of 11 hatched last time. Beginners luck I'm sure. I have 6 in now and I took out the egg turner this morning. I'm sooooooo eggcited! (sorry). I can't wait to get home and see if I can hear them peeping in there like last time. My sons were amazed at...

I got a Little Giant incubator for Christmas. I cleaned it, set it up with the automatic egg turner Hubby gave me, regulated the temp and put all the eggs my girls layed that day in by 9:30 pm. Eleven eggs went in Christmas day. Saturday I took out the egg turner. That evening we could hear...

Like a lot of people, I got an incubator for Christmas. I started 11 eggs and today was day 7. I have been so excited waiting for today to get here. I know my rooster is a busy boy so I have been pretty optomistic about fertility. Unfortunately I don't know much more than I did before I...

I was looking at mypetchicken.com to find out about diapers. Has anyone ordered these? Do you ony get 1 diaper or a pack of them? Do you wash and reuse? I've never kept a chicken indoors, but we have a silkie inside in a carrier and have been letting her roam the house this morning. I follow her...

I found my black silkie acting strange when I went out to lock the birds up for the night. She ran to my feet (not completely unusual) and tried to get out of the coop with me. I reached down to shoo her back. This almost always works because unless I'm tossing a snack they run. They don't...

I think I have a broody hen. I've got a black silkie that has been in the nest box the last two nights when I get home from work. I don't know if she is there all day or not. Last night when I got the eggs from under her, she pecked my hand a couple of times. It didn't hurt. Tonight she didn'...

DH called me right before I left work yesterday to let me know something was wrong w/ Opie our rooster. He was bleeding all over the back of his head. When I got home to look at him blood was just dripping off the back of his comb. The wound was just a small cut across the comb but with all the...

My husband wants a horse. I have found a local guy with a 14 year old Appaloosa gelding that used to be a trail riding horse. The lady who owned him previously hadn't riden him in a long time. This guy is going to clip his toes, ride him and get him used to the bit and halter again and sell him...

chickencrazy, is there going to be a chicken joke of the day again soon? I love reading them and then repeating them.

I have four Pekin Ducks. They are about 6 months old. I have never had ducks before and I think I have 1 male and 3 females (the only thing I base this on is the drake feather). For the past week Hubby and I have noticed that the girls (?) are biting the neck of the boy (?) and he is...

I found an ad in the local paper about a Poultry Farm and Garden Swap on October 6, 2007 at the Turkey Creek Feed in Joplin, Mo. Location is 3 1/2 miles East of Rangeline Rd on 20th Street. 7am - 12pm. The ad lists a # for more info 417-782-6082. I am so excited! I haven't been to a poultry...

I bought ten cornishx's last Sunday. In a weeks time they have doubled in weight. Yeah! However, I notced last night that they are growing lopsided. All of them seem to be growing a bump on the right side of their breast. I have never had cornishx before so is this "normal"? Is this how they...

I don't know how to see who submitted the photos for picture of the week. Can someone tell me what breed the white rooster is that won picture of the week for 7-28-07? I have three 2 1/2 month old birds that look like that and I don't know what they are. I was calling them Columbia's, but now I...