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We have about 20 hens. One of them is gurgling and doing the mouth thing. Looks like she is trying to crow, only no crowing. I hate to lose her, she is just about laying age. We lost a rooster a couple months ago, he had similar symptoms and then just fell over dead one day. So I am pretty...

They are a week old now. We've been losing almost one a day since like day 2. It's all the chicks from Meyers Hatchery. The chicks from Hodges Farms are all fine(same age). But I've lost one of my marans, a white rock and all of my GLW and SLW. I think a couple were due to pasty butt. I had...

We might build another smaller(our current one is 9x16) hoop coop if we decide to keep all of our chicks. Last time we did a tarp roof, which we've had to replace 3 times(before we figured we needed to put it on after the cattle panel and before the other wire so the coons can't get to it) Large...

Three Blue Lace Red Wyandotte Chicks. What do you think, about 2 weeks old? There were lots of hatching delays with the batch of chicks from a certain place and I guess these hatched and they had to reset my Ameraucanas eggs, so I got my Wyandotte and Cochins a bit older. Fine by me. lol I...

They were supposed to arrive a month apart...but the breeder kept postponing. I didn't even know they were also going to be at the post office this morning when I went to pick up the chicks from Meyer Hatchery. So now I have 31 chicks at the same time. The Meyers chicks hatched yesterday, 12 of...

We have 5 Australorp roosters that are 10 weeks old now. First of all how old before they can be killed? We don't want to keep feeding them forever, but obviously they need to be bigger. At what age should they be big enough? And, I keep seeing people leaving them in the fridge for days before...

What sex and breed. I think the black are a Australorp mix of sorts, the others some sort of Brahma? Are they mutts? I know there are 5 for sure black roos. Those are obvious. We thought all the rest were female, but on another thread someone said they my Brahma like chickens were roos. I sure...

Every time I go out to the chicks coop I get covered in tiny gnat like bugs. Chicken lice don't fly right? I'm just dealing with gnats? The other chickens don't have any(different coop) but the chicks coop is infected! The dumb things won't roost, so they just sit on each other and crap all...

They were supposed to be shipped last Tuesday, no word from the breeder(Hodges). I sent an e-mail Wednesday(which was pick up day) and they said they would ship yesterday. Again NO WORD from them...I sent an e-mail and finally heard back this morning that they didn't all hatch and have been set...

The last contact was when she sent me an email about a month ago telling me that my chicks were expected to ship yesterday. And they should arrive at my PO today.(Hodges Farms) When I looked at their website yesterday it said that buyers would receive word when their chicks shipped. I'm hoping...

I have 6 Wheaten and 6 Blue Ameraucana chicks coming in Feb. They are straight run and so I am sure I'll get some roosters in there. How can you breed them together? I don't know much about genetics and am just curious what will result. Thanks!

We have a dud. She has been laying ONLY soft shelled eggs for weeks now. The other girls are laying normal eggs, so it's not a matter of lack of calcium. What are some causes of this? Is our only option to cull her? She is about a year old and so sweet, we hate to cull her....but she is...

We have babies out in the coop under a lamp and I guess it drew the attention of a local. We've never had anything try and get into that coop/run before. The run isn't very secure. It's just chicken wire 5 feet tall. We dug a trench and dropped in a ton of broken pieces of concrete we found out...

We are planning on making a trip to Echo for Farm Day in a couple months and hope to get some edible plants to plant in our yard. Don't want to get anything my chickens are going to nibble on and get sick. I know I've seen a list like this somewhere(not the treat chart). Anyone know where it...

http://fortmyers.craigslist.org/lee/grd/2158556761.html I have no intentions of buying, just curious. He is nearly identical to my own Black Beard(RIP) who was a EE. Looks like the posted rooster has green legs, isn't that a sign of a EE. Don't pure bred Ameraucanas have slate or yellow legs?

We have 1/2 acre and only 1/2 is sodded. We would like to raise some birds for meat one day, but don't want to just raise some fast growing broilers that don't need any space. We would like to raise some chickens more on "pasture". So what would be a good thing to plant on the back of our...

So I posted a couple months ago that my chickens had been exposed to a infected bird. Turns out it didn't matter as a couple weeks ago my husband didn't lock them up at night and in the morning all were dead. So we are starting over, we have some babies in the garage right now and more coming...

UPDATE IN POST 9 Can we tell roosters yet? I think I see 2 for sure. They are a little over 2 weeks. This one is Big Mama, she is HUGE. I hope she stays a girl. Her comb isn't developed at all, so I am hopeful. If not he is going to be named Big Mama. They LOVE the sand for dusting...

What is the rule with using sevin to treat for mites/lice and eating eggs?

So our feed store has wazine 17, but you aren't supposed to use it in layers? What the heck am I supposed to use???