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this picture popped up in my local county news feed and thought it would be interesting to share here. I’ve never seen this before, so I wanted to see if anyone else has. You can see that the inside of the egg is black which looks like mold. Any ideas what this could be?

this morning I went outside to check on my chickens and noticed one was dead under the coop. When I pulled it out I noticed that it’s head was missing, but there were no other signs of damage to the chicken. I inspected the coop and there weren’t any holes or anything. The only thing I can think...

I just checked my flock of 8 chickens (1 rooster 7 hens) and found one of the hens dead in the coop. I'm surprised since I've been out there twice today and none of them were acting unusual. Any reason why one could just drop dead? One thing to note, I have noticed some loud noises during the...

I'm usually pretty good about doing my research on these matters, but I think I've screwed up royally after noticing what's happened in the last 12 hours after doing some research. I have 6 five week old chicks and two of them ended up being roosters. I wanted layers only, so I looked into...

yes, I realize these pictures are garbage and I will do my best to get some better pics, but my question is more generally based on sexing the chicks based on their feathers. You can see in the pic that there are clearly two chicks that have much more white in their feathers than the other. I...

I'm about 80% finished building a coop (link below) for my 7 barred rock pullets that are approximately 3 weeks old. The coop is located on our land that is wide open, so I want to build them a run that is large enough for them to protect them from predators. I was planning on doing a 12' x...

I know this isn't the place for this, but I stumbled upon a bird while mowing my land yesterday that has laid eggs right in the middle of a patch in front of my house. Here she is warning me to back off and she has dive bombed the kids for getting to close. Anyone have experience with these...

So I was checking on my chicks this evening and noticed one of the chicks has a raw exposed butt. I've provided a detailed picture (you're welcome) to help give me an idea of what's going on. Anyone know?

I have one chick chirping loud non stop. I have seven total and the rest are fine and just do their thing. I've checked for pasty butt, too hot, too cold, water, food...the whole nine. No matter what I do, it won't stop chirping. At night when I put them in their MHP, not a peep from any of...

Some of you may be familiar with my recent posts since I'm brand new to the world of baby chicks. After learning a hard lesson about heat lamps and losing one of my eight chicks, I decided to move to the mama heating pad. After another learning experience and getting the chicks used to their...

I followed the directions like others told me in a previous post. Warmed the cave up and placed all the chicks inside and covered the entrance for probably 30-40 seconds. Now they all seem to have accepted the cave and are happy! I have one question though. Should I start with the setting on...

So I took the advice of the folks in the thread and decided to build a mama heating pad for my brooder. I set it up and turned off the heat lamp which immediately lead to them huddling together OUTSIDE of the "cave" and started chirping like crazy. So I turned the lamp back on with the new...

Let me start by saying that I have zero experience raising chicks. My wife and I have been wanting some laying hens so I did some research and found some barred rocks from a local guy. I picked up 8 of them and placed them into the brooder I had built (pictured). Everything appears fine at...