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This is my first go'round with chickens so I apologize for any "stupid" that may come in my ramblings... I have a 17 week old Legbar roo that I think may need some help. I noticed a few days ago that he had schmootz on one side of his face (under his eye & toward his beak) & a few spots on his...

I'm so new, I didn't know there was such a thing! I'll go get some first thing in the morning. Thank you for the suggestion!

I'm still having a terrible time with this chick. I've had it separated this whole time but have tried setting it back in with the others a few times & it's the same thing every time. It goes right after whatever vent walks by. It was suggested that maybe because the brute is so much smaller...

The welsummer in the background of the 1st picture or the blonde ameraucana in the 3rd?

Meet Hawkeye. Feed store baby we brought home 11 weeks ago & are now thinking she may be a he. In the last week or so it's comb has gotten darker red & grown...... What do you think? Here is our other ameraucana brought home at the same time. This is what the one in questions comb...

Thanks everyone for the replies & different views. Just an odd situation allllllllllll the way around! The sister in law really did try to just let it go & say no thank you.... She has a pretty dry sense of humor (I find it hilarious) & whether she wants to admit it or not, at the point she...

Oh I'm so glad that it worked out for you & hope that this little jerk takes the being alone as a clue to knock it off as well. Right now I just need it to stop screaming. I've got it in our spare bathroom in a pretty sweet bachelor pad but she is just not impressed. Hopefully she'll wear...

So 4am comes around & there's screaming coming from the brooder. It's another chick with a picked at vent. I snatched the poor thing out & watched the others a minute. Turns out the only one pecking/picking on the others is the runt. After pulling that one out I put everyone else back together...

Any experience with vent picking? I have 9 five day old chicks in the brooder. I have one baby that the others have ganged up on & it had a bit of blood on its vent. I cleaned it up, sprayed with blue kote & put her back in the brooder. She didn't take 4 steps before they started pecking again...

Thank you! Any experience with vent picking? I have one baby that the others have ganged up on & it had a bit of blood on its vent. I cleaned it up, sprayed blue kote & put her back in the brooder. She didn't take 4 steps before they started pecking again. Blue kote looks red under a red heat...

Thank you! I didn't think there were any splash in here but didn't know how to Yelm the blue from the black. Is there a general rule of thumb?

Is there anyway to tell which ones will be blue black or splash when they grow up?

Apparently there were 3 more emails from the person just being horrible. They didn't communicate that they were pulling chicks from a preorder until well after the deal was dead. I think they did have my sister confused with someone else but still can't excuse him being rude. She tried to be...

Agreed. I just couldn't believe they responded like that to her. I don't think we're so nuts after all ha!

Brand new babies in the brooder. So excited I had to share This is Jim, he's 15 weeks old & being VERY good looking over the side of the brooder at his new babies. He is 40% Boerboel, 25% Kangal, 25% Argentinian Dogo & 10% Dane. Jim sat there for 25 minutes just watching the babies...

My sister in law just sent me this exchange she had with someone selling lavender orpington chicks on craigslist. She is racking her brain trying to figure out what she did to irritate this person & if she was actually out of line. I know what I think about it but am curious to see if she & I...

Thanks guys! It's amazing how quickly 30 chicks go from fitting in the corner of a little box to a 6'x 4' brooder in a little over a week! Our coop is roughly 12'x12' & I'm starting to get worried lol. Most of the chicks were straight run though. Is it reasonable to think that we'll likely end...

It happened! It finally happened! We got the keys to the farm a week ago & there are 30 chicks in the brooder! Silver laced wyndottes, welsummers, rhode island reds, leghorns, ameracaunas & cream legbars! the rhode island on top of the water is by far the bravest. She actually jumps right into...

This is fantastic information & is very helpful! Thank you! I am a research junkie & have had a hard time finding data that was scientific aside from the sea of opinion out there. I can find tons to read about different people & their experiences which is invaluable on it's own as there is so...

Would vinegar be a better all around sanitizer for this application?