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All these girls are just under 5 months. They were from a mix from MPC. If you know what they are, please let us know..We have ideas, but aren't sure. This black one, has white lobes, black feet and much smaller than the rest (thus the pic with the rock for comparison). She's also, very...

All these chicks are about 7 weeks. Ideas on what these are? Seems to be a slow grower? I really have no clue on this one We have a couple of these different 'greyness'...we call them the "Ghost chickens" Some kind of Wyandotes? Brown Leghorn? Welsummer? GL Wyandote? Grey Ghost...

We've been raising chickens for 3-4 years now. Starting out expecting to raise 3-5 chickens...at current raising nearly 100. We started with a coop that we attached to our current shed and built a small run around it, expanded it with the run you see in the first pic that's falling down, and...

We bought a run of Barred Rocks and a mixed run. Here are a few picks on my flickr. If you have any idea please respond. We have ID'd many of them, but there are still a few we haven't. Like the White one with grey feet...Looks like a ghost chick. Then the fuzzy little silver ones. And the...

Hi Everyone, We have about 10 full grown roosters who free range in the back yard. We have been keeping/raising chickens for about 2.5 years now and are still learning as we go. Before we got them I always thought roosters only crowed in the mornings, well quickly found out that isn't the case...

Hi Fellow Chicken lovers, I have about 40 chickens in a coop and very large run/pen. We have had them for about 2 years now and never had a problem with flys like we do now. I keep the coop and run very clean, well as clean as chickens can be. I scrape up poop from the poop shelves in the coop...

Hi, A lot of my chickens are losing their feathers. They are missing from their faces and others from their backs and wings. We only have hens in the run so no roos to be pulling them out. I am wondering if it might be a parasite? They are due for a dusting which we do about 3 times a year but...

We have thought about seperating our roos from our hens when we aren't pulling hatching eggs. Mainly to give the hens a rest as the roo is pretty rough on them. Is this a bad thing or good thing? Any "side effects" so to speak about seperating the roo from the hens? Will it effect the...

Hi, I am in the process of collecting eggs to putint he incubator. It should take me about a week to get enough. In the past I just keep them laid out in tupperware ware and roll them a few times a day. I was wondering if I could just plug up the turner from the incubator and set them all in...

We have some young, about 5 month old, RIRs. We hatched many and have several roosters and one very dominant one, We call him Henry VIII. He is very aggressive with the hens (although some of them chase him off afterwards LOL). What we are curious about is his legs..the backs of his legs...

One of golden laced Wyandottes suddenly seems to have a crooked neck. At a quick glance it looks as though her crop is massive. I have had a good look at her and her neck seems to be of to the side making it look as though it bulging. She seems to be fine and is eating and drinking okay but...

Hi Everyone, Yesterday we found out in the pen, a tiny egg, about the size of a candy robins egg. It had no yolk. We have lots of regular sized chickens, barred rocks etc, some duck wing bantys that normally lay small eggs about two or three times that size. We also have two female banty chicks...

Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong with one of my silver laced Wyandottes? She is about 10months old, perfectly healthy and has been laying, as far as I know. She was asleep on the ground while the others all walked around her and stayed sleeping while I picked her up. All the...

I had a question about RIR eggs I recently incubated. We had 30 eggs shipped from Florida, 11 hatched and about 14 weren't fertilized. After they hatched I had 8 left that had chicks in them, saw them during candling and they all seemed to develope just like the others did. I left them in the...

Hi Everyone, I have a bad problem with one of my banty's and have no idea what I can do about it. I found her on friday outside the coop, when she should have gone up to roost for the night. She could not walk properly and I brought her in the house to see how she would do over the weekend. She...

I have a very strange problem with one of my Buff Brahma Bantams. Yesterday I found her mooching around outside the coop while the others had all gone up to roost for the night. She was and still is having trouble walking/standing and doesnt want to put weight on her right leg. The strange...

I have had 31 RIR eggs in the incubator for 6 days now. Most look good, a few not sure about. I am new to incubating and candleing eggs and trying to get used to what I should be seeing. One of the eggs doesn' t look like the rest, it looks like it has a blood spot in it and veins coming off of...

....Is still a Chicken! What other names do chickens have around the world? I have heard/read: Chicken Chick Hen Rooster Roo Cock Cockerel Pullet Chook What are some others?

I have just put 30 RIR eggs in the incubator, a new Hovabator. Before I put the eggs in the temp was consistantly 100. Now I have the thermometer that came with the incubator sitting on the eggs as instructed and a digital thermometer on a spare space on the turner rack. The digital reads 98 and...

Hi, I am looking for a reputable supplier to puchase hatching eggs from. I would like to get Rhode Island reds or buff orpingtons. I am looking to buy approx 30 eggs depending one price. Thank you. Jenny