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I've had a broody silkie sitting on this egg and just moved her and egg inside in brooder. I've candled previously and looked fine, today it looks like the attached pictures. I can't tell if it's viable or not. The air cell seems to move around a great deal. Does this look like it will hatch...

I just had a silkie chick who as about 9 weeks old die. It was fine an hour ago out with it's flock buddies, eating, etc. All of a sudden it was flopping around in circles, beating it's wings like it was trying to get upright and then died. Help? I have no idea what is going on. No signs of a...

I thought this silky chick had pasty butt when I first got her though her vent seemed to protrude oddly and she'd make a high pitched noise each time she pooped. So, I did everything I was reading, washing her off, even putting vaseline on her hiney to try to help keep it from sticking. I...

I had one pullet right at 12 weeks old all of sudden acting as if she had hurt her leg. Able to stand on one and was still able to make me chase her to catch her to check. I had her outside in a pen where she could see everyone else but it's turned colder so I've set her up in a brooder set up...

My 12 week old pullet all of a sudden seems to have hurt her leg. She can run on it if she wants to (like getting away from me!) but then lays down and the leg is basically stretched out in front of her. No marks on it, doesn't appear swollen. I've already separated her which she's not happy...

I lost a young EE bantam pullet this afternoon. In the past I've lost 2 EE bantams that were about to lay and a cockerel about the same age as my pullet I lost today. Today I did find feathers, but on the other's they've just vanished.Same time period on each of them, somewhere around 4 - 7...

I have a just over week old silkie chick that has a protruding vent, pasty butt and makes a very high pitched cry every time it tries poops or tries to. It has no fuzz left on it's butt so the black skin is on display. Eating and drinking just fine, checked it's crop last night and this...

Once again, first time chicken Mom with questions. I have 2 EE bantam pullets, 20 weeks old this week, that are beginning to show signs such as the comb reddening and definitely squatting. They have both become very docile/lovey with me, sitting in my lap for treats, easily picked up and...

Blue is an EE bantam pullet right at 19 weeks old. She has not started to lay, doesn't squat or anything else I've read to be looking for before they start to lay. For the last several days she's been making this kind of "creeeee" noise that has me concerned. I've checked her all over, she looks...

So, I've gone off the deep end. I've got a cross beaked pullet, Cleo who is severely cross beaked as you can see from the picture. She's smaller and much thinner than her flock mates and spends a good part of her day at the feeder making a mess and not getting much. She is most definitely part...

I have a cockerel, Max, who's around 18 weeks old now. As of yet his comb has not gotten dark red or that big. His tail is definitely looking "roosterish" as his is coloring. He's supposed to be a standard EE, though he could be a mix. I also have a bantam EE cockerel who is all rooster at...

First time Flock Mama. I've been feeding my chicks and chickens crumble style feed since the first. I have both treadle type feeder outside and PVC style feeders for them in the coop and run but they still waste an awful lot of feed for a flock that also free ranges. No one is laying as of yet...

I have to brag on what a good "rooster to be" my cockerel was last evening. I'm a first time flock Mama and mine free range. Every now and then my oldest shih-tzu, Bailey, she's 11, gets a wild hair and wants to chase the chickens. Last evening was one of those times. Bailey was off after...

This is my first flock, all around 16 weeks old and looking forward to eggs sometime in the future. Mine free range in my yard which includes some overgrown, wooded areas. I'm concerned that when the girls do start laying they'll be everywhere but the lovely nesting boxes in their coop. I...

I have a 16 week old cockerel bantam Easter Egger who is going to be a great rooster, I think! The only thing I'm wondering about and have seen him do is biting the butts of some of the standard Buff Orpington pullets that I have. Not sure if he's just wanting to get their attention and go where...

I have 3 Buff Orpingtons, 2 the usual Buff color that are definitely girls and then this light colored one that I'm thinking may be a cockerel? Doesn't really act like any of the other cockerels I've had but the bigger, very pronounced comb and the tail feathers beginning to look different has...

My chicks are just 8 weeks old today and I'm already thinking about this! I have one cockerel who's a Bantam Easter Egger since that's all I was going to have was bantam Easter Eggers, Well, lo and behold out of the 8 I got as 2 day old chicks, 5 were cockerels so 4 of them are off to good...

Out of my original batch of straight run Bantam Easter Eggers, I ended up with more cockerels than my little flock needs. Born May 10, 2016 so they are 7 weeks old. Free to good home! Pick up only! I'm in Knoxville, TN.

Noticed a few days ago that a chick I got a couple weeks ago has developed cross beak. She's 6 1/2 weeks ago and just as pretty as can be. It breaks my heart! I have trimmed her top beak back a bit, which was an adventure, but it's evened them up a little. I'm concerned about her eating...

5 weeks old bantam EE that suddenly starting facing off with the boys. I thought she was a pullet with her coloring until she did that and I looked closer at her comb. I've got divided results from posting so thought I'd try here!