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Hi, I have 2 Welsummer chicks showing a lot of comb development compared to their Golden sex-link and Delaware sisters. I'm not familiar with this breed. do these look like cockerels to those of you familiar with welsummers? They are from hathchery stock and were sexed, fyi. Thanks for your...

I have 6 hens. Two are 4 years, the rest hatched 2017. Only one is laying anymore. One Cuckoo Marans has seemed slow/sick and is getting fat. Last spring an Andalusian started walking like a runner duck and later died. I keep a light on them and usually get laying all winter in my mild climate...

i have 7 hens—2 are older and 5 were hatched last April. Two or three of the new ones won’t go in the coop at night. We have to try and catch them. One even got stacked by a possum and had to be rescued at 2 am. She stlll stays out. We have a well-ventilated lighted coop with roosting bars...

Here's photos of my gender mysteries. I'm not sure of the breeds, but I ordered from Murray McMurray. My order included cuckoo maran, black star, whiting true blue and "rare exotic" ancona and red star) hatched april17, so 4 weeks old chick 1 chick 2 chick 3

Here's another mystery... I ordered from Murray McMurray. My order included cuckoo maran, black star, whiting true blue and "rare exotic" (but i think I have a golden laced wyandotte as the exotic) ancona and red star) hatched april17, so 4 weeks old 4 pictures of the same chick...

I ordered from Murray McMurray. My order included cuckoo maran, black star, whiting true blue and "rare exotic" (but i think I have a golden laced wyandotte as the exotic) ancona and red star) hatched april17, so 4 weeks old 3 pictures of the same chick...

It has yellow legs and was a chipmunk type chick. Is it a boy? I think it's a boy. It's 6.5 weeks old. Thanks for your thoughts!

My metal little giant waterer has become rusty inside the water pan. Is this hazardous for the chicks to drink from? Is there any way to restore the waterer?

Hi, I ordered 6 CM and 6 BR pullets from MacMurray, hatched FEB.5. I can't tell them apart as they don't distinctively have pink or yellow legs. Three chicks died very young. So I have 3-6 of each breed. Meanwhile, there are 2 that seem like roos to me. They are lighter, taller, braver...

Hi, I ordered 6 CM and 6 BR pullets from MacMurray, hatched FEB.5. I can't tell them apart as they don't distinctively have pink or yellow legs. Two chicks died very young. So I either have 5 of each or 4 of one breed and 6 of the other. Meanwhile, there are 2 that seem like roos to me...

I'm trying to figure out how many surviving chicks of each breed I have, but I can't figure out which are cuckoo Marans and which are the Barred Rocks. They are about 2 days old now, from McMurray. Thanks for any ideas!

My new group of pullets are just starting to lay (Yay!). But I have one pullet who has spent most of the last 3 days in the nest box. She fluffs around in there, making the wood shavings into a bowl and even has sung the egg song a few times, but has not laid an egg. Is this normal? Should I...

She had chipmunk style chick fluff. Now she is developing a golden head. Rest of feathers still chick-like at six weeks--non descript black brown mix. Her legs are willow green. Sh does not have muffs or feathered wattles or feathered legs. Her comb is small. Maybe a pea comb. She is my rare...

My 2 year old RIR has always laid brown eggs, but just this past week she's begun laying white eggs. I know they are her eggs. She also has very red legs, like they're sunburned. My other hens seem normal. She eats layer pellets and our scraps and gets free range time in our grassy yard. We...

I'm looking at the McMurray coop controller. Has anyone has a predator attack while using this door? Did it keep the flock safe or not? Edited to add: we have raccoons and skunks in the area.

Hi there, I'm looking for advice and reviews of automatic door opener/closers. I am not interested in DIY--I want something pre-fab I can just install. Can anyone comment on a prefab door they like? I've read a lot about the one from Foy's on this forum, but I don't want a battery operated...

I'm brooding 27 chicks under a heatlamp on pine shavings and feeding chick starter, hatched feb 5. They seemed fine and I went away for the weekend and had a friend check them twice a day. At some point last night between 11 pm and 7 am their heat lamp bulb went out and it got down to maybe...

My flock of six hens have been eating each other and their own feathers. Some of the hens have bare patches on their backs, but it is not from molting. I tried spraying the area with hot picks, but it has literally no effect. a hen turned around and plucked a feather out of her back and ate...

2 of my 6 hens are losing feathers in a small patch on their back, just before their tails. No, we don't have a rooster. What are the likely causes? Any ideas/suggestions would be gratefully appreciated!

My hen started panting a couple of days ago and seemed less active. I thought she was just hot b/c we had a hot spell, but now she is still panting in cool weather and wouldn't even get off her perch this a.m. She has runny-looking manure streak down her fluff in back. Rest of flock seems...