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Well, my son's bad luck is hopefully your good fortune - his chick pick from this spring has begun crowing and we must find a new home for this very sweet Delaware rooster. Please feel free to rename him - he doesn't really answer to "Ferfluffle" any way! Picture shows him younger - he is much...

I picked up three new chicks today (a Delaware, a cookoo marans and a welsummer) and they are so active and noisy! I don't remember my last batch of chicks (two years ago) bieng this active. They chase each other and peck at each other and are just so fast - my last girls were all sleeping at...

My son got an air soft rifle for his birthday. It shoots round plastic pellets the size and shape of BBs. Will my chickens be harmed if they eat theese? My kid is hoping to set up a hay bale and have some fun, but I am worried about my hens (who have the run of the whole yard) getting sick.

My pullet had been laying and egg a day when she stopped laying completely. We searched the yard, thinking she just stopped using the box and found nothing. Our yard is big, but not THAT big, we would have found shells or something. Months went by, and we had given up. My husband told a visitor...

My three hens started laying eggs about three weeks ago, and give me an egg almost every day (each). I hate to complain, but they are on the small side. Do the eggs get bigger as they 'warm up" to laying? We've had some double yokers that are huge but mostly they are the size of a medium store...

my 21 week old hens just started laying and one is laying eggs while STILL ON THE ROOST! Of course, this results in an un-usable egg! and a mess! I hope she will figure it out. I did have plastic easter eggs in the boxes, and both of the other hens are using the :hboxes. Has anyone had a...

This is my son's 3 month old chicken, we were told it was a Barnvelder. It is the biggest of all the chickens thta are the same age but different breeds, and is kind of the boss. What do you think - hen or roo? We are hoping for a hen! Idon't know if it means anything, but this chicken has the...

Help! I think this first bird (Taffy) is *gasp* a rooster! It is bigger than the other chicks and made a weird strangling noise the other day when I picked it up. It is also the most bossy of the bunch. I also don't know what breed it is, I was told lit was an EE but I don't think so. This...

My healthy, active four week old chicks still have runny, butterscotch colored poop, altho there is also plenty of the solid "earthworm" looking stuff in the brooder also. Is that anything to worry about? Just asking because they also sneeze once in a while and one is growing a little less than...

My butterscotch colored chick now has brown stripes on her wings - could she be a BO or do they stay all one color? Also, she is the smallest of the group and the last one to get tail feathers.

My chicks are between 10 and 8 days old, and are growing so fast! When will it be obvious which ones are roosters (hopefully none). I am hoping that my son's Delaware in paticular is a pullet, he is so in love with "her"!

My husband found a nice lady about an hour from us who has all kinds of great chickens - and quail, geese, etc. We went yesterday and this is what we brought home (keep in mind we were only going to get 4 chicks, how silly were we?) here is our Buff Orpington, Bernadette - she is fatter every...

I can't get my brooder temp over 84. I'm using a 75 watt heat lamp (it promised to heat up to 95 at a distance of 18", but it's not). I have three thermometers in the brooder that all read between 78 and 84. My chicks are expected at the feed store tomorrow! I guess I'll run out and buy a...

I was happy to have my kids get excited about ordering chicks, but I think they spent almost as much time as I did agonizing over which breed to get. The breed selection tool at MPC is too cool! One son wants a Black Jersey Giant, one wants a Barnvelder and the other wants a RIR. Hubby wants a...

My plan to build a hen house and run would take up some (200 sq ft or so) of the approx 1,500 sq ft lawn area that my two elementary age sons use to play. My husband thinks that the area should remain grass, that was the plan when we moved to a house with a large yard. I want what I want though...

Hi everyone - my local feed store (Pomona Feed and Fuel, in Pomona, CA) is getting chicks tomorrow, and I plan to get 5-6. Does anyone have any advice how to pick healthy ones? Also, I'm interested in Easter Eggers chicks, do they all have that "mohawk" thing or is there another way to determine...

I'm looking for around 10 easter egger pullets in the Inland Empire. If you know of a feed store or other source, please let me know!

I am soo happy to have found this site! I am glad to have kids and a few neighbors that share my enthusiasm, but WOW - I had no idea thtere were so many of us! An army of chicken people - sounds like a sci-fi movie! Here's a shout out to the Inland Empire, California!

I plan to build a run to keep 4-5 hens in while I am not able to "supervise" them around my garden. How will they take to being allowed out of the run on some days but not on others? I don't want to create spoiled chickens who skwawk all the time to be let out - I'm trying to keep the neighbors...