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I've been making myself crazy trying to figure out what is wrong with my 7 week old Sebastopol goslings named Ethel. Her wings have looked wrong for a few weeks now, and everyone told me to leave her alone, she just needs to get the strength to hold her wings up, but Lucy and Fred have had...

So, I have a Crested Cream Legbar Rooster (blue egg layers), and various tan egg layers (Barred Rocks, Buff Orps, Golden Laced Wynd, etc). Just for fun we loaded up the incubator with eggs for some "barnyard mixes". But here's my question. Everything I read says a blue egg layer x with a...

I ordered 6 new Cream Legbar Chicks from Green Fire Farms. 5 females, and 1 male... 4 of the females have nice dark striping... and one still has distinct stripping but more faded in color. The male has no stripes and a clear white spot on head. I just want to be sure you all feel it's...

I'm looking for numbered leg bands for my chickens, and I've narrowed it down to two styles... anyone with experience willing to weigh in? http://www.strombergschickens.com/product/Adjustable-Red-Aluminum-Bands-304r/metal-bands...

1st try at incubating eggs.... I was keeping the humidity in my incubator at and average of 55% and also plotting the average weight of 10 of the eggs to check humidity levels. I created the recommended graph and on day 7 when I candled the air cells were too small and the eggs had not lost...

I've never hatched eggs before, I super excited. My question is can I band them as they are hatching? My hope is to band them by the egg color they hatched from...is that a reasonable goal? This will tell me the breed of each since some of them will look exactly the same as chicks. For...

It's been one problem after another in my flock! Let me start by saying I have no way to isolate chickens... the extra coop and run who have new pullets that could possibly have bacterial infection and have been treated for lice. In my basement is a pullet that definitely has a bacterial...

I picked up six 6mo old cream legbar pullets and luckily kept them in their own coop and run away from my current flock. It's been tricky because this time of year I leave in the dark and get home in the dark. The first night I noticed one slept on the coop floor instead on getting up on the...

We started our chicken adventure in May by building a 25'x25' run around the chicken coop thinking they'd be happy... no. They quickly reduced it dirt and begged at the door... after all, the grass was greener on the other side. So we fenced our backyard which is a full acre with 4' tall farm...

Ugh, fleas like crazy in my grass outside. What can I used besides DE that's safe and can do an entire acre? We already did the entire yard with DE last weekend and we don't see a difference. We are treating our dogs with Frontline and I don't have fleas in my house, but the dogs are non-stop...

I know it's early, but I'm starting to worry about light for the chickens for the winter. I'm just curious, when the days are short, should I extend them with a light in the coop for the girls? And this will sound silly, but what if they are roaming around the coop and the light clicks off...

I thought I had my treats in safe spot... silly me. Apparently they got down the 10oz bag of dried mealworms, pecked a hole it in, and at the entire bag. I have 12 hens. I knew something was amiss when I got home from work and they all had very full gullets when they ran up to greet me at the...

I have 8 week old chicks out in their coop and run. Today the weather got up to 90 degrees w/ a feels like 97. I got concerned while at work and came home at lunch and froze a tray of blueberries in ice cubes. When I came home from work I found them with their mouths open panting and a few...

We have a variety of breeds in our new flock with three of them being easter eggers. We're anxious to find out what color eggs they'll lay. They're only 6 1/2 weeks old so we have a ways to go. They were sold to me by a hatchery as Ameraucanas, but I'd already done my research and knew I was...

I'm new to keeping chickens and the girls are 5 weeks old. I take them out to the yard almost daily (weather permitting) in a fenced area and let them forage. Days it's not nice enough to take them out, I've been shoveling up a clump of dirt and grass and putting in the brooder because they...

What in the world is happening here and how do I help her?

I have a dozen 3 week old chicks in a brooder in my house. We bought a used coop and set it up in the backyard with 25'x25' run around it with 6' high fencing. We already caught a fox checking it out (must smell the chickens from before, I haven't cleaned it yet). Here's the mistake we...

I have 3 week old chicks that I'd like to give occasional treats to and I know I need chick grit. My local feed store is out, so here are my choices... regular grit (which I believe will be too large), bird gravel (local petshop I called suggested that product) or just sand? Which is the best...

I currently have 12 chicks in a brooder. I had the typical waterer but they were fouling it up faster than I could keep it clean. I purchased 4 vertical poultry nipples and a bucket and made a hanging waterer. The pine shavings under the bucket are also soaking wet, I'm changing them twice a...

I currently have 12 chicks in a brooder. I had the typical waterer but they were fouling it up faster than I could keep it clean. I purchased 4 vertical poultry nipples and a bucket and made a hanging waterer. The pine shavings under the bucket are also soaking wet, I'm changing them twice a...