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I have a 2 year old dark Brahma hen. She hasn’t laid in 2-3 weeks or so. The last few days I noticed she wasn’t running for treats so I gave her an exam. Has lost weight, no lice/mites, clear eyes/breathing. Eyes look a tiny bit swollen to me though (pic below). No injuries. Crop feels small...

Just hatched Marans x Easter egger eggs (golden cuckoo and blue cuckoo moms, Easter egger dad) and wondering if the head spot autosexing will still apply? Here are the 5. I think I have 3 girls and two boys. Ideas? This one (Tormund) I think boy-huge white splash. Golden cuckoo (I think...might...

10mo EE rooster (brown leghorn/ameraucana mix most likely, hatched from a MPC mystery egg) in need of new home in northern Vermont. (I will drive him within 75mi radius of Burlington however!) Next door neighbors are selling their house and he’s too loud for them, plus he has been a bit...

I have a 10mo roo (Easter egger mix) that I hatched myself and he has a flock of 10 mixed age girls. He has always been great with them and with us, including my 13yo daughter. We have raised him to not be overly friendly and respect us and trust us. I thought we had done a good job with him...

I have several birds with whitish/green earlobes and some with white or dark spots on combs too. My rooster also has some dark spots on his comb and is missing a lot of feathers around his neck but I saw one of the hens “grooming” him quite aggressively so ?? The skin underneath the lost...

So last summer I built a very large permanent enclosed run - 12x24 - after losing 12 free range birds to a weasel. I meant to roof it before winter but it took forever to put up and I couldn’t get the roof done. It has hardware cloth side panels and the floor has 3’ of hardware cloth on the...

Hi, I have an Easter egger rooster that I’m curious about his genetic history - he came to me as a “mystery egg” in a hatching egg set. The egg was blue - I’m attaching the pic here. He’s a really awesome rooster. Good with people and the ladies and very protective. I want to breed him with my...

This little *bleep*er has killed 14 of my birds so far. Lost 12 in June. They had been free ranging in a large fenced area and it attacked during the day and killed all but two who flew over the fence and escaped. It came back a week later into a secure run (not secure enough I guess) and...

Two weeks old but this Barred wing pattern and pointy feathers and no tail feathers yet say boy to me. (These are a friend’s chicks we are “babysitting” this weekend). I know it’s young, but guesses?

these are autosexing I believe? Pretty sure right is pullet, left is cockerel? Due to the white spot. The rest of that chick is dark brown/dark gray which doesn’t seem male to me but no definite chipmunk stripes like the obvious pullet on the right. I incubated them - Left hatched Sunday, right...

hatched this BBS ameraucana Monday. The last to hatch. Seemed weak at first, trouble standing, now it is walking and sometimes running but it has a bit of a wide stance and I suspect a bit of splayed leg. Here it is standing. Worth doing the bandaid trick or leave it be at this point? It’s...

This little one hatched yesterday from a mystery egg added to my shipped egg order. The egg was a greenish blue, which means at least mom has blue genes. This chick has pink legs, is a light brown chipmunk type pattern. Any guesses? I’ll post follow up pics as it grows. I feel like it might have...

So I’ve had a weasel kill 12/13 chickens - 11 a month ago and 1 more today and the last one survived but the very tip of her beak is broken off and there seem to be some small pieces broken and missing near her nostrils. It must have just tried to bite her face off. I cleansed it down with...

bodies everywhere. Broken necks, lots of feathers everywhere, but very little blood. I couldn’t tell how it got into the fenced yard. No torn fencing, no holes. Fence was 4’ wire. Two flew out and escaped, 11 dead. I’m in northern New England bordering a forested area. Fischer? Weasel? Some...

Hatched 3/21, so 7.5 weeks, very slow to feather. S/he was practically a naked neck for a couple weeks . No comb at all, just a flat gray space, until this week. I was relieved, but now it’s suddenly pinkish...I have heard ameraucanas are late bloomers? Ziggy here is a boy isn’t he?

Nearly 2 year old Easter egger hen, found in coop Tuesday afternoon squatting and panting, brought inside to “hospital” pen in bathroom. It was warm yesterday so I gave her a soak in the sink. She’s panting, won’t stand, if she does stand she stumbles and falls over. Crop felt very full last...

I had intended for my broody to hatch these but she changed her mind so I rigged a diy bator - struggled with temp so switched them to an Amazon one-day shipping one - temp has been steady since Sunday at 99-100, humidity around 45-50%. These poor eggs have been through a lot. It’s day 7 and I...

This one was sexed as a pullet but her coloring at hatch seemed rooish - I’m posting 2 day old and 6 week old pics. Big white stripe (not dot) on head, light colored legs. However, s/he grew a tail right away and a small comb at 2 weeks. Coloring now seems more pullet? I know still young but...

This is my 3rd set of chicks and I have one that is struggling this time. I can’t quite figure out what is going on. 4 arrived from hatchery in mail Tuesday 10/17. One (Easter egger) was weak, had one eye sealed shut, didn’t stand well. I hand fed her water with electrolytes and a slurry of...

My danger chicken (seriously, this girl has survived a dog attack, & a hawk attach) is now limping. I don't see any signs of bumblefoot. She is 1 year old next week, laid yesterday, eating and drinking, just not putting weight on her right leg. She didn't object to my examining the whole leg and...