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I'm going out of town for Christmas and since none of my friends in the past have proved reliable, I decided to find some trust worthy young person through the co-op and pay them to come once a day. Trouble is I can't decide how much to pay! It will be 8 days. I was kind of thinking $40 ish-...

That's the only symptom I can see- she looks fine, poop is fine, the only thing is that she does a lot of standing and staring and she's normally one of my brightest, most cheerful and outgoing hens. She's a gorgeous white Ameraucana and I just love her to death. I gave her some vitamin/enzyme...

I didn't post this in the injuries section because it's not really an injury and it's not really an emergency, so hopefully this is OK to post here. If not I'll move it. I have this little Delaware who needs a beak trimming. I called the vet but they wanted $57 to trim... I've heard it's not...

Looks like some telepathic communication going on! These two love each other.

Hi! This is my first time to raise Brahmas so I'm not very familiar with the breed and I am wondering if I have a rooster here! They are 12 weeks old. He/she doesn't have much of a comb to speak of and so I never figured I had a rooster, but the colors are brighter and iridescent and the tail...

I let my almost 8 week old chicks out for the first time today! My 3 big hens are really gentle and they've all been getting along great since I've been letting them spend more time mixed up together in the coop, so I thought today I might try opening the doors for them all. Of course they...

I have a little Delaware who's 5 weeks old now. She's got these tiny legs, like half the normal length and her body has always been small. Not proportionally small though- her legs are definitely odd. In the move from house (brooder) to coop the others were thrilled but this one became really...

As the subject line says I was sold 5 chicks as Light Brahmas from a small local hatchery I really like. They're currently 5 weeks old. I've never had any Brahmas before so I didn't know one variety from another as day old babies. As the feathers came in they just kept on not being white...

Hello everyone, I have 32 chicks -4 weeks old- and one little Delaware has always been little. She seems to have extremely short legs- like half the length of normal legs, and has never been as energetic as the others but didn't ever seem sick... but yesterday she got that look of a chick on...

So far they seem to be doing OK. Thank goodness it's not cold weather! I covered the brooder with blankets, making sure obviously that they have gaps for air, put several (very tightly covered) bowls of hot water in there wrapped in towels, some extra towels for cuddling purposes, and one of...

I got my chicks over the weekend from a local guy. He had 3 Cinnamon Queens that had hatched really late and were so new they still were kind of wet with bits of egg shell. He asked if I wanted them for free with the Cinnamon Queens I bought and I said "Sure!" Turns out 2 out of the 3 have...

I'm so excited!!! I got my new babies this morning from a local hatchery. 14 Cinnamon Queens, 11 Delawares, and 5 Light Brahmas and I couldn't be happier! One of the Delawares has a crossed bill, unfortunately, but it doesn't look severe to me and I was reading on here how to file it down...

Hi! My birds are all around 6 months old and have been laying great for what seems like forever (even though it's only been maybe 2 months) but all the sudden the Australorps just quit laying! No eggs from them for a week or more but the Ameraucanas are continuing to drop them like crazy. I...

Hi! I live in a small, rural county & on a lark (well after talking to a guy involved with the competition who encouraged me to do so) I decided to enter a chicken into the county fair in a couple weeks. I have a couple of really gorgeous white Ameraucanas but they're also great layers & very...

I got some supposedly standard cochin pullets last week. Now, I was dumb to not look in the box and check them over but it was well over 100 degrees and since their box was still cool inside I figured I didn't want to disturb it. Not to mention I drove an hour and a half to meet this guy at...

I had Hamburgs before who never would be touched despite me handling them regularly as chicks, but I wrote that off to the breed since they are just flighty. Now my chicks this year are the same even though I give them plenty of treats and also handled them regularly as chicks. (These this...

Hello everyone, I got 3 little full sized partridge cochins this past Monday and they are completely adorable. -Although I strongly suspect one is a bantam roo even though I said I didn't want roosters or bantams, but oh well, I really don't mind. It's been 4 days now and they act like I'm...

A pair of Silver Spangled Hamburg hens having a cuddle out in the sun.

It was a long hard day getting everything ready, including building a fence to divide the coop and give the little guys their space separate from the big hamburg girls. "Big" is kind of funny because probably in the near future the new chicks will be quite a bit bigger, the Australorps for...

I'm sure this has been discussed but I couldn't find it in the search. My chicks are 4 weeks today and I am wondering if it would be OK to move them out to the coop. Obviously I'll take the heat lamp out there and I was going to put up a partition today to separate them from the big chickens...