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So I did a hatch and we ended up with 11 cute little chicks. I hatched 2 of them from a nice olive egg (same hen just 2 eggs) daddy is a black copper maran rooster (could be 1 of 3 that I have). The thing is that they're yellow chicks. All the others from my blue or green eggs came out black and...

Bought this little guy at 6 weeks old as a roo. He's now about 9 weeks give or take. Just wanted to check if we agree he's a boy. I wouldn't be gutted if he's a girl because we have about 6 boys out of a total of 9 we hatched and bought as day olds... but I'm hoping for an older boy to expedite...

This particular chicken has made these sorts of noises for months now but this is the loudest and most frequent I've heard it. My chickens are currently going through some sickness and it might be exasperated by that but I want to make sure it's nothing more serious since I've never heard...

I have a chicken we hatched from our welsummer hens egg and it's dad was what we believe was an Easter egger. He was in the wrong bin that was labeled as welsummers with a bunch of chipmunk looking chicks but he was stark white. Is this little one a boy or a girl? This baby's 9 weeks old today.

We got 3 prairie bluebell pullets from rural king and I'm thinking one might be a roo. They're about 6 weeks old. Any ideas?

Last month I brought a rooster home from a lady who clearly wasn't taking care of her chickens. He didn't seem sick with anything viral but was underweight, had sores on the pads of his feet, fleas and lice and smelt horrible. I kept him separated from my girls by an acre in a pen until about 3...

I arranges to pick up a brahma roo today and after driving 2 hrs this poor guy had what looked like bumble foot, lice, and was pretty underweight. I didn't want to leave him with the woman he was with so I paid and took him home. I've cleaned out the bumblefoot and put ointment and bandage, but...

Candled this egg I got off a lady about an hr away from us. She gave me 10 blue maran eggs and sadly only 2 were fertile at all. This one seems to have 2 moving embryos. It's on day 10. I'd love to get 2 chicks out of this one since so many were infertile but I know that's a slim slim chance 😔...

Bought these girls as chixks from rural king. They were in the cream legbar bin.... but 2 of the 3 lay light brown (pink?) Eggs. They're coloring is also off for cream legbars. One does lay a blue egg (she laid her first egg today actually). I'm thinking maybe Easter eggers? But I've never had...

We had four 3 week old pekin ducks and the neighbors dog got in this evening and killed 3 of them. I have one left who is almost unscathed but she has a small puncture behind her wing. I've never had a dog attack any of my birds so I'm not sure how bad this is but it looks bad to me. Aside from...

I have an 11 week old EE. She has air in her crop and has gotten very skinny the last 3 days. She's been wiggling her neck in a funny way and only eating eggs and yogurt. No gapeworm when I check with a qtip. She's breathing with her mouth open maybe 50% of the time. She'll peck around on the...

Got thus cute "guy" at rural king. He was in a bun with lots of chipmunk looking chicks. The worker didn't know what breed he was or how he got in with that breed because he was snow white and clearly a different breed. He was bigger than all the others but clearly the same age (feathers and...

I have a hen that I swore was egg bound starting a week and a half ago. She was waddling like a penguin, tailfeathers downturned and abdomen was pulsing constantly. I gave her extra calcium in some scrambled eggs and am Epsom salt bath to no avail. Couldn't feel an egg in her abdomen and didn't...

I'm wanting to hatch some eggs from my welsummer girls that are mated with my olive egger roo. Can anyone tell me if these eggs are fertilized? I know that they say look for a bullseye pattern but even before we had a rooster I could see the little spot and I'm just not seeing too much...

For the last 2 weeks my favorite EE hen has been laying eggs without the shell and has been getting skinnier. She acts fine and I see her eat when I throw treats and snacks out and I've seen her at the oyster shell container and their food bin eating on both. I'm not sure what else to do. She...

We have 7 production reds and they sometimes sneak off into the neighbor yards, so when my husband came and told me that one of them was in our front yard and her neck was fatherless I thought maybe she pissed a neighbor off or got her head stuck in a fence and skinned her feathers off herself...

Hi! These babies were sold as Ameraucana's but I got them at a feed store so I'm 99% sure they're just EE. Can anyone see any hint of gender on these guys (or girls). I have an inkling that the orange one is a roo but am having a harder time with the other 2. They're roughly 3 to 4 weeks (she...

I bought these two as day old chicks from a feed store and they advertised them as ameraucana's but I caught a glimpse of the order sheet and it definitely said easter eggers. I asked the gentleman if they were true ameraucana's or EE and he swore up and down they were true and the hatchery...

My alpha hen (Red) was straining in the nesting box for over 3 hours today. She seemed sick and I was worried. Her bottom was covered in really runny poo and she wasn't laying. I left her there for a little longer and closed the cage while the others were out grazing and she finally passed a...

Trying to confirm gender on these babies. 3 are mixed from supposedly welsummer rooster and and some other type of hen that I got from someone on craigslist. They hatched here. And two were abandoned (or orphaned) and we just brought them home. I have hunches about their gender and just wanted...