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I have always gotten female broilers. They seem to grow nicely for me. Their combs and wattles have always been small and a pale red. I have a couple in my current batch that have big wattles and combs. Can someone tell me why?

I cannot see any mites or bugs in the chickens feathers. I am not sure why this is happening. It's only on a few of my hens not all of them. Any info is appreciated!

She is about 8 months old. I have 9 chickens and get 7-8 eggs a day. Yesterday I only got 5. She was acting fine yesterday. I went to coop this am and noticed her walking like this. She's interested in food. Has poop on her backend feathers and her vent is clear. Her abdomen feels soft.

I am going to get some birds processed at a facility and I plan to sell the birds as whole chickens but let the customer decide how they want it cut up if they do at all. I have some people that are interested in buying just the breast meat. Although I cannot figure out a way to do this with...

I have a chicken 26 weeks old. Not sure if she is an active layer yet or not. She was fine yesterday when we let her out of the coop. She ate some tortilla chips and some corn puffs. Then she just was standing there with her eyes closed and rear feathers puffy. She was also having like spasms...

I was wondering if anyone can tell me if this poop is normal. Today my hen started acting off. This is what her stool looks like and her feathers are puffed I her back and she keeps like clenching her hind end. I checked to see if she was egg bound and she's not.

I have a chicken that I'm not sure what to do with her. She was perfectly normal until she ate a piece of chip or a cheese puff. The other 8 chickens are fine. She has been standing with her feathers puffy and she did poop and it appeared normal to a little runny. She kept having spasms in her...

I was wondering if anyone could inform me what causes an egg to look this way. I have RHode island reds, golden buffs, and a buff Orpington. The birds are currently 16 weeks old. One began laying sept 27 and another about a week later. Still waiting on the others. I went to get the eggs...

I have been told that Styrofoam egg cartons harbor bacteria if they are reused, is that true? I am new to chickens and have several Styrofoam containers. I would think it would be true of the paper cartons being that they can't really be washed.

Hey there! My family and I live in NE Ohio. We are getting our first batch of chicks the first week in June. We will have 8 hens. A buff Orpington, 3 Rhode Island Reds, and 4 Golden Buffs. I found this site by researching chickens. Stumbled across it I guess :) I was coaxed into getting...