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About a little over a year ago, I bought three Australorps from a hatchery online. When they were about a year old, a month or two ago, I noticed one of the hens have developed red feathers around her neck. I don't have any good pictures of it, but there isn't much to see, she just has red...

I wanted to get 3 chickens (2 female white leghorns, 1 unknown gender silkie) and 2 ducks (undecided breed, female). If I put them in a chicken tractor with 4sqft per bird in the shelter and 10sq ft per bird in the run would they get along? I've heard of them being together, but a "tractor" type...

As far as breed goes, I know the father is a Black Australorp, but the mother most likely be either a Barred Rock, Dominique, or Mottled Java (I have others, but they don't have white on them). I don't know about gender. It's about 7 1/2 weeks old. Sorry if the pictures are blurry. It...

Sorry the pictures aren't very good. I just found this out today. Never notices this before. Could've been there for a while.What is it? It seems to be acting normal. No issues walking or anything. It's just feels like a hard lump.

Today, I awoke to find my baby chicks (2-3 weeks old) outside (happens often, they usually find their way back in by night at latest, but I help them if I see them outside) and the feathers of the mother scattered around all the way to around a bit over 50 feet outside the coop in one direction...

I've noticed I don't get green eggs anymore. I only have one EE, and she usually lays. But no eggs for the past week or so. She seems fine. Any ideas on what's wrong with her? It doesn't seem to effect any other chicken.

I had a chicken hatch yesterday under a broody hen and it looked ok but I saw a red open sore around where it's ear is. It ended up going to another hen which was previously broody and hatched eggs just the day before and was sitting with her chickens. I checked on it later and it went under...

My hen has decided she wants chicks (they're a rooster in the coop so they eggs are mostly fertilized). If chicks hatch, what do I feed them? The flock is on layer feed but I don't want to hard the chickens. Any ideas?

I'm growing tomatoes, peppers, and corn this year. I scooped up some chicken manure from my coops and put it in the composter to age. At the moment, about 30% of the manure is straw, which I haven't figured out how to seperate yet. I put the manure in the composter about two weeks to a month...

Hens: x1 Buff Orpington x2 Black Australorp x1 Mottled Java (I have a EE, too, but I can tell who laid the green eggs) I had 4 different tinted eggs, so one must have had an odd one, but I included all 4 tints. Here they are: Who laid what?

I'm trying to get a more natural and fresh diet for my chickens (Layena, what they're on, is good, but they don't have much else to eat). The thing is that I'd prefer to not use GMO corn, as I just don't like it or the idea of it. I know there are types of corn that are suited for this kind of...

I have a flock with 6 pullets and a cockerel. I got 3 pullets Aug 30th and the rest Sept 9th, but I don't know exactly how long ago that was. Anyway, they're inside their coop right now with just a light bulb and a heat lamp. I'm working on getting their outside enclosure ready but it's very...

I just recently found out one of my GLWs had a green spot on her foot. I haven't been able to find anything on the internet that tells me what it is. She doesn't walk funny (her foot in the second photo is only like that because she's death gripping a flat surface), just has this spot on her...

Can something happen if there is a problem with too many roos? To lower the chance, I could get something like 6, but still, no matter what, I could end up with a 4:4 hen/rooster ratio. Just what happens? Do they kill each other?

There are two different roofing setups as I'm aware of. The first is a center beam in the top of the roof where the roof beams slant from both sides of the bean onto the top of the structure: The second is where each pair of slanted beams aren't connected, but have additional beams...

Is this a cockerel BA? It's one month old.

I don't want to invest in the money for a plucking machine as so far there is a single chicken I want to pluck (and if I get hatching eggs, maybe a few more ). I've heard that you can simply pull off the feathers (after soaking the chicken in hot water of course), but I've also heard that you...

I have an accidental roo which I'm planning on sending to freezer camp very soon. The only problem is that I have no place where I can put the chicken while waiting for it to finish off all the food it's currently digesting. Can I go ahead and butcher it anyway?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophet_Hen_of_Leeds "who had written on the eggs using acid and reinserted them into the hen's oviduct." Is that even possible? I imagine it would hurt the hen a lot. Actually, what if there was already an egg ready to lay in her? What if it cracked on the...

I got this Dominique pullet that is about 20 weeks old. She turned aggressive a few weeks ago and I can't seem to calm her down. She always makes the "ground threat" call when I'm around and tries her best to peck at me. She has gotten to the point where by simply trying to grab the eggs inside...