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Recently a chick hatched with curled toes and splay legs. For the splay legs I used a band-aid to place the legs in the proper positions but for the curled toes I was at a loss as to how to fix that. The chick was very small - a Serama, and it was hard to find anything to tape to the feet that...

On the 20th of this month my Silkie Serama hen decided to set on her eggs. There were three in her nest at the time, then on the 21st I took three more of her eggs out of the refrigerator, warmed them to room temperature then placed them by her nest. She accepted the eggs right away and has been...

I've read several articles here and on the internet about show quality birds and breeding birds but don't quite understand the difference. It seems that if a bird is of breeding quality it would also be show quality. Can someone shed some light on the difference?

When my hens started laying regularly, they would occasionally lay a double-yolked egg. I only found that out when the egg was opened, but I've seen several posts from folks who can tell a double-yolked egg without opening it. How can you tell an egg has two yolks without cracking it open?

Would anyone out there be able to help identify what kind of chick this is? She came from an assorted pullet bin at a local feed supply store, and is about 3 & 1/2 weeks old. Rather flighty, and hard to get good photos of.