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I have three 4 week old chicks. A black sex link, a RIR, and a leghorn. The leghorn is skittish, which is normal. The black sex link is so very sweet and docile. The RIR is not so sweet. In fact, when I put my hand down into the brooder box, she runs at me and bites my hand. She almost...

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How about Rubber Butt...I hope you washed your hands immediately!

I have not idea about any of this. I would like to say that those are some really gross chicken butt pictures though! How on earth did you get your chicken to bend over to expose her, umm, bum, and hold that position long enough to get such a close and clear picture? I am curious.

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Quote: Thank you, I will definately try this. Plain yogurt or flavored? I have flavored yogurt but if plain would be better, I can get that tomorrow.

I just went to check on them again. It appears that she is straining constantly trying to push the poop out but it continues to get stuck in her butt. I cleaned her again and her butt is still looking swolen and she asks as though it is sore (I'm sure it is). I put some vasaline on her butt...

A friend gave me three of her newly delivered batch of baby chicks. I am fairly new to all this, but have raised two sets within the past year. One of these new babies, they are about 1 week old, had a large ball of dried poo clogging her butt. I had read about it on here previously so I...

I suspect that one a couple of mine have dry fowl pox as well. I called the vet this morning and asked them what I should do, they are pets, culling is not an option here. It's not bad or anything, just noticed black spots and dryness on their combs over the past few months. Thought it was a...

I had this exact problem when I let one of my hens hatch her eggs. The momma was very protective and did a great job protecting her babies. I had gone out to check on her in the coop and found that her eggs had hatched. One of the hens had apparently spent the last 30 hours trying to get at...

Quote: Oh yes, roosters can be verry gentle. My first bantam rooster was so sweet. He was OEG bantam, and was the sweetest thing. (He also made the crowing expression as a chick.) So if leghorns are not particularly friendly, should I let her be or should I keep working with her to try to...

That's where we lucked out and got our Silky from, TSC. Three things to look for in chicks if you want a silky... 1. grey skin - silkies are one of few breeds with grey skin 2. feather on legs - not many have feathered legs 3. five toes - silkies have 5 toes instead of the normal 4 If a...

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Quote: I don't think that silent crowing is natural behavior for all chickens, only roosters. At least from my limited experience. Every chick that has ever done this has always ended up being a rooster. The very first time I saw this was with my very first flock of chicks. They were...

Quote: I don't think that silent crowing is natural behavior for all chickens, only roosters. At least from my limited experience. Every chick that has ever done this has always ended up being a rooster. The very first time I saw this was with my very first flock of chicks. They were...

I let one of my broody banties lay on and hatch her own eggs last fall. It was my first experience with hatching and I decided it would be best to let nature take it's course rather than mess it up with my own lack of knowledge and inexperience. She did great. She sat for a month on those...

A friend of mine ordered pullets in three breeds, White Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, and Black Sex Links. She gave me one of each. They are only a few days old, I assume. Still very fluffy, no more than a week or two old. The RIR and BSL are showing very pullett like behavior (docile and...

I think my chickens may be a bit depressed or something. It has been very cold here this past month. We have had below freezing weather (single digits, possibly below 0 at night) and several inches of snow. My small flock would not step foot in the snow, which I can understand. They spent a...