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I'm been getting some detached air cells (free floating groups of small bubbles) in eggs from different pens. Them seem to be more likely in the eggs that were recently laid on the day I'm at the farm to pick up. (I'm only at the farm where I have my breeding stock on Sundays, other folks at...

I have a pullet that appears to be a rumpless genetic "sport". That is, she appears to be rumpless due to a genetic mutation, rather than a recessive trait. Or at least she is the only rumpless bird out of all the ones I've hatched. Nor have I heard from any buyers of my hatching eggs of any...

3 month olds. Boys? Or girls? Also these 2.5 month olds:

I have a breeding pair of Cream Legbars, and I've often kept a Delaware hen with them. However, the Delaware hen is dominant, and the CL hen often stops laying after the Delaware is in the same pen for a while. I just took the Delaware out last week, and indeed, I have two CL eggs so far. (CL's...

As you may know Cream Legbars are an autosexing breed. Like sex-linked hybrids, you should be able to sex at hatched based on coloration. But not everything is black and white. Males are supposed to have a light spot on their head. Females have clearly defined chipmunk strips on their backs...

I have a pair of Crested Cream Legbars producing fertile hatching eggs, but due to uncertainty about holiday plans, I am not putting more in the incubator just now. I am offering eggs for sale or to trade for your Cream Legbar eggs in late January or later. (I am also interested in offers to...

I have two 4 week old Silver Laced Wyandotte from a hatchery which seem a bit too red in the combs to be girls. (They were sold as pullets, not straight run). A third (not pictured) has a single comb which is still yellow. I am hoping someone will tell me that the rose combs just pink up...

Hi all, I have 3 birds with pox on their combs, faces, and feet. These birds were breeders in separate pens from larger laying flocks. The question is whether I should vaccinate the remaining layers, or just let it run its course through the flock. If I did vaccinate, it looks like...

can anyone tell me what the protein requirements are for full-grown roosters? I am guessing they need less protein than layers or growing broilers. I've got a pen with some extra roosters that aren't immediately headed to the chopping block, and I'm wondering if I can dilute their feed with...

So we've been losing eggs to critters. Not egg eating chickens: today something definitely took the golf ball fake egg. Could be rats, chipmunks, squirrels, snakes, we've got 'em all. In the short term, there is no way we can screen them out. The chickens are loose in a large dirt floor hoop...

Some friends were given a number of chicks which were supposedly pullets. A few have much more developed comb and wattles, and hackles that look like roosters to me. I'm guessing these are RSL roos:

I have two chicks that hatched from "barred rock" hatching eggs. One is completely jet black (no head spot - nothing). The other had a diffuse head spot, is lighter and is clearly barred. They are now two weeks old. I'm guessing that their daddy was not a barred roo, and they are therefore sex...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Black Star, about 1.5 years old, no noted change in weight 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Presently isolating from the other chickens, seems to stare into space (although her vision...

I'm in the process of integrating a broody and four chicks back in with my other two hens. They've seen each other through the fence for a while now and even free ranged together fine. Actually, the chicks can get through the 2x3 fence in with the other hens anytime they are out and about. I'm...

Free Barred Rock cockerel (male) chick. Hatched June 22 from hatching eggs from BYC member "WFF." Local pick up in San Diego (92104). Possible pick up in Santa Monica on Thursday 6/28 or Friday 6/29. I live in the City of San Diego (North Park) and can't keep this little guy once he grows...

Well, I just took the plunge at the San Diego area meetup and bought a pair of Cream Legbar chicks. I am trying to plan ahead and think about what other hens it might make sense to put in the same pen (since I have only one Cream Legbar female), particularly if I hope to be able to sex the...

So we have a wheaten ameraucana that started laying (for the first time) in Decemeber 2010, then stopped in Jan 2011. After a while, we figured out that she was behaving kind of broody, but was never really committed to stay on the nest for more than an hour or so. At first I thought she was...

My homemade feeder (10 lbs coffee can plus crock pot lid) doesn't have a lip to prevent billing out, and I'm growing increasingly annoyed at all the pellets my hens waste. I am attracted to the Little Giant/Miller mfg. PHF11 11lb poultry feeder...

So we have a wheaten americauna who has been a part-time broody for about 5 months. Since she has never had the persistence to stay in the nest for more than a few hours (during the day), it took us a while to figure out why she wasn't laying, and moreover there have been no real health...

We have a wheaten ameraucana which started laying mid-December and then stopped mid-January. We were a bit baffled, but figured she would start laying again eventually. Now it seems like the time she sometimes spends in the nesting box is her thinking she's incubating eggs. The thing is, she...