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So I just came back in from the barn, where I was sitting with my second Faverolle who will likely die in the next 24 hours from some unknown cause. My other one had to be put down a month ago due to complications from a kidney tumor. They are/were only 2. In my previous flock, the longest-lived...

Poor girl's face and comb are so swollen it looks like she'll pop. One eye had white foamy discharge this morning but not this afternoon. There is no horrible scent coming from her nostrils and her breathing sounds normal, which is making me question a coryza diagnosis but the swelling sure...

So we're finally getting January weather where I live, and this morning there's quite a hoarfrost on everything. I let the girls out, intending to put them in the tractor when I finished my chores. I was about to herd them in when I noticed one, my GLW, sit down suddenly. She looked at me and...

My son and I were doing a phonics book together; the focus was on the short "e" sound. One of the pictures was of a chicken, with the correct matching word being "hen". DS points to it and says "rooster" immediately (he can't read "hen" yet). I looked at the photo. Yup, it was of a rooster. :)...

I have a 14-month-old Faverolle who is molting hard and seems to be feeling pretty lousy while doing so. She won't come out of the coop unless I bring her out and she is barely eating. I've been giving supplemental protein like BOSS, flock raiser, yogurt, scrambled eggs, meat scraps, mealworms...

We had to re-home our rooster several months ago because our flock was just too small and three of the ladies in particular were getting rather torn up. I don't regret moving him at all since his new home is Rooster Nirvana -- he has a flock of 30 ladies now -- but I do miss the protection and...

My eight-month-old rooster was a right jerk to the girls tonight, seemingly out of nowhere. When the hens were heading into the coop for the night, he started laying into them: pecking at their feet as they tried to hop down into the coop, grabbing their heads and biting hard and being a total...

So my young rooster has recently started mounting our first hen to mature, and it seems pretty, well, rough. Since he's just starting out he doesn't have the smoothest moves just yet, and she seems surprised and terrified when it happens. (He is also twice as big as she is.) Will it...

6 weeks old. Always been larger and a little more developed than the rest. I'm starting to think cockerel but am keeping the female name for now...

So our chicks arrived from My Pet Chicken a little over three weeks ago -- they were hatched on or about July 28. All have been doing wonderfully, but one of them -- a Faverolle -- is barely growing feathers while the others now look more or less like miniature versions of their eventual...

Conversation with my toddler son, who is learning about various Christmas traditions: Q. "Who says 'ho ho ho!'?" A. "Chickies."

I have a 3+-year-old hen who seems to have some version of an internal laying disorder. She has shown signs of it for a few months now: no laying, the belly swelling comes and goes (as I have seen it do with other hens I had who ended up dying from it), always just a wee bit of poo residue on...

So a little over a year ago I posted about a hen who adopted my son: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/585297/the-bodyguard-sing-it-with-me-now-yall Well, for various reasons she is now our sole chickie, and definitely remains in charge of my son. When he learned to walk she was right beside...

Apparently, around 40. My toddler just discovered today how much fun it is to share Cheerios with the chickens. One of them reaped most of the rewards. I've never seen her admit she is full before! And boy was that crop big...

I may need to put pinless peepers on a hen who is especially aggressive towards our lowest-ranked flock member. I was looking at her face today and the way her comb is shaped, it almost seems like the peepers wouldn't fit over it or would put too much pressure on it. Just curious if people have...

AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAAAAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOOOUU..... WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOOOOOOUUU .... YOU, MY DARLING YOU... I'LL ALWAAAAAAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOOOOOU .... One of my favorite hens has adopted my son. She hangs with us when we're out together, and if he starts to fuss or make...

So I have a 2.5-year-old red sex link girl whose comb looks like it's getting smaller!! She's molting right now and seems to have recentlycome through a round of internal laying/related issue where I was sure I was going to lose her. Her comb and wattles are pale due to the illness and molting...

So I've been having a bit of a deer mouse problem in and around my barn, and a few of the little stinkers had taken to running over the top of my coop, leaving poop everywhere, and occasionally raiding inside the coop for food. One morning as I was cleaning up, I removed the droppings tray and...

Article in today's NYT about a chicken-sized dinosaur fossil find that is shaking up how bird evolution took place. Go out and hug your mini-dinos!