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So one of my girls (idk which one) laid an unusually small egg, but not small enough to really be considered a fart egg. No idea if the size of it is the cause of this, but when I boiled it up, the yolk had the same [maybe a smidge rubberyer, snapped instead of crumbled when torn apart, shiny...

that 10% chance of getting a Cockerel sure seems bigger than 10% doesn't it lol

yep! (unless i get a complaint from the city, but i dont think i will because i hear other roosters nearby. but if he starts to get noisy i'm gonna make a no-crow collar.)

oh boy lol. this could get interesting. this is only my second time rearing a flock and I didn't have a roo last time!

Did I end up with a Wyandotte rooster? they're all approximately 4 months old. here you can see a female (behind the silkie) and the bird in question in front. it's started to crow, but a really weak and garbled sounding crow, so I thought at first it was just an androgenous hen taking up the...

This one speckled sussex is obsessed with pecking at the tail feathers of the leghorn chick, specifically. doesn't appear to be attempting to pluck the feathers out, doesn't grab and hold on and tug- just poking. Doesn't do it to any of the other ones. the leghorn seems unphased... for now.

Thank you guys. I'll see if my local tractor supply has that spray stuff. And yes, what I saw was definitely the preen gland. I didn't want to make any assumptions about it since I'm not real knowledgeable on chicken anatomy.

Hello! Relatively new to chicken keeping (got chicks in march). So I just noticed today that one of my four birds had bald-looking tailfeathers. I had a closer look and found scabby, gross looking skin and one weird nipple-looking growth (bout a quarter inch or so and skinny). Didn't end up with...

I was doing some drilling and screwing on the chicken coop and knocked my box of drill bits over. You can guess what the chickens tried to do as I was fishing them out of the dirt...