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It is hard to see it unless you open the chicken's beak. What is it? How can I treat it so it doesn't get worse. A few weeks ago it and another chicken looked like it might be gagging. They were opening their mouth wide like someting was in their crop. I thought they might have an impacted...

I have a chicken that has a small sore or growth on one side of its beak. I can see it best when I open it's beak. I checked the others and there was another one that had an even smaller place...it looks like a thicker darker place on the beak when I open the bird's mouth. Sorry, no pics. Is...

My daughter is entering her chickens into the fair and there is a catagory for bantam single comb clean legged leghorn and a different catagory for bantam rose comb clean legged leghorn. What is the difference. What does he single comb look like?

They are 5 months old. We have a white silkie and a black silkie: We have two white pollish: Polish #1: Polish number2:

I have one hen. I checked the nest at around 11:30am. No eggs. I checked again at 8:00 pm and there were two eggs. Is this normal?

I got new teenager chicks that I want to add to my flock. How long do I need to isolate them before letting them join the rest? How do I know if they are ok --what do I look for?

We are referbishing a playhouse that is 8'x6'. I really want to make it cute and functional for the 12 chicks that we have. There are two windows on the front and one in the back. The roof has a vent strip at the top. I am going to add a run out the back and possibly let them use the back...

I know roosters have spurs, but do hens have little spur buds. My chicks are about 8 weeks old and many of them have a little bump on each leg where a spur should develop if it is a rooster. Please tell me I don't have mostly of roosters! I am hoping hens have a little bump on their leg too...

We have aquired an cute 8x8 playhouse with a country front porch and we're having it moved to our yard. We plan to convert it into a chicken coop. I have a few questions. Should I put it in the middle of the very large backyard with no shade or I can put it near the woods where it will get...

I have a 2 1/2 week old silkie chick that got snatched up by a puppy in a split second before I could grab the puppy. I got the chick quickly,but it is trying to walk with it leg stuck out. It's wing is stuck out some also. I felt of its leg and it doesn't feel broken. It lays down on it's...

I hatch a batch of chicks 8 weeks ago. The are mixed bantam. I gave several away and the ones I kept are A LOT smaller than the ones I gave away. The ones I gave away are probably three times bigger than mine. Also several of mine have died. Each time I blamed it on something I did. I was...

I am pretty sure I have a blind chick. His eyes have been oozy since it hatched. I used a warm cloth to keep the crustyness off for the first week. They continue to mat shut and when I clean them they look small and I really feel like the chick is blind. It is a week and a half old. None of...

I checked my day old newly hatched chicks yesterday and found one with an eye oozing and nearly glued shut. The other eye was oozing some too, but seems better today. I am not sure if maybe one of the other chicks pecked it. I an not sure how to treat it. I put it back into the warm bator to...

Can you move eggs from an incubator to under a hen that is setting? I just realized today that I have a hen that I think has gone broody and I would love to move some of my eggs from my incubator to under my hen.

I have two day old chicks with sprawled legs. One is worse than the other one. They were not sprawled yesterday, but today it looked like one was doing a split. I had them on pine shavings and was using a dog crate as a brooder box. Even with the pine shavings, they seem to be slipping on...

I had what I thought was a silkie egg to hatch, but there are not 5 toes. Can a silkie have less than 5 toes? I set eggs from pure bred chickens, but there are several different kinds of eggs. Now I need to identify the chicks!

Why is it that my first egg to hatch went from pip to hatching in about 1 1/2 and the others piped and have made no progress in 7 hours? The first to hatch is a perfect chick and came out so quickly. After it hatched, I was worried that it would get into the water bowls and drown, so I took...

I am wondering if I put eggs in the nesting box, will my cochin hen possibly go broody?

Can I use a cloth under my eggs in the white styrofoam still air incubator?

I have a chick that has hatched with what I think is the intestines on the outhside of its body. I left it in the incubator 24 hours. It is walking around fine and chirping. Do I cull it or just wait and see what happens? Is there anything I can do to help? I have pics to post, but am not...