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What’s everyone’s experiences like with a molting hen going broody? To me it seems like a bad idea with stress levels and everything for the hen. I have an Orpington (partridge) that’s starting to go broody (not consistently staying on the nest yet but showing the usuals puffed out feathers...

Initially wanted to share this super size egg my new partridge Orpington has laid today, but also wanted to ask if the baldness she has around her vent is due to molting, as her feathers around her tail look like she has been molting but i have never seen any of my chickens have a vent that...

Would love to know everyone’s Number 1 breed that ticks most boxes😁 Just looking for some ideas to be thrown out there as I just got rid of my oldest hens, who were so nice so it wasn’t easy for me, to make room for some Orpington’s I was getting. After finding a new home for them I was then...

Was wondering what everyone’s opinion was on this. For context, I’ve never in the past had to clip my chickens wings as they have a lot of space and have no interest in escaping/jumping. 2 days ago I rescued a leghorn from the next town who was roaming the streets and no owner could be found -...

Does anybody on here have any experience/knowledge on the white stars? Ive been researching but there’s limited information, I believe they’re more common in the UK. From what I’ve read they’re made by crossing certain strains of the white leghorn, they do more or less look identical to the...

Very confused this morning I’ve currently got some 11 week old white star pullets and when letting them out I noticed their coop/run had lots of feathers everywhere. I didn’t think it was possible for them to molt this young, or at least very unlikely? They all hatched together and I’ve never...

I’ve only ever hatched eggs from my own chickens a couple of times and only to make some cool hybrids, I’m considering keeping some Orpringtons in spring and breeding them. I’m not very clued up on the genetics side of chicken keeping so this may seem a stupid question to some. If I were to...

Wasn’t sure which section to ask this in😆 Just curious and would love to know what everybody’s average temperature is right now where you are, how many hours of light your chickens are getting, and how many eggs you are getting from your chickens 🙂 I’m asking as I’m in the UK and still getting...

(They’re basically the same as white leghorns) I’m pretty sure they’re all pullets, but wanted a second opinion. Hard to get close ups of each as they’re all identical and I forget which ones which 😂 Edit - theres 5 of them too

I want to add some more chickens to my flock in the spring, and I’d like a breed that’s typically broody as I’ve recently lost my Silkie. My problem is that I’ve got some quite mean hens within my flock which would be a slight issue as my Silkie always got bullied off her nest whenever she was...

I’m looking for recommendations as my run is getting a bit out of hand. My chickens have lived at the back of my garden in their run for almost a year now. The run has always had a dirt flooring which was fine at first, but now it’s winter it’s getting rained on a lot and it’s very messy and...

Wasn’t like this yesterday and she never gets in fights any more as none of the others will dare mess with her 😅

My white stars are 3 weeks old tomorrow, their bag of chick crumb is almost done. Just wondering what age people put them onto grower as I know many people do it differently, would like to hear what age everyone chooses 🙂

Does anyone else just have the greediest chickens ever? 🤣 I went to lock them up for the night and realised I forgot to collect eggs today so quickly picked them all up, accidentally I dropped one on the floor and it smashed. I’m not sure how, as I’ve dropped them on sand before and they were...

What’s the most effective way to get rid of mites without burning down the coop? It’s a small wooden prefab coop which has mites in, I tried spraying it each day with this mite spray my neighbour gave me but think it’s quite cheap and rubbish. I have chicks waiting to go in the coop but don’t...

Should I see pips by now? On the evening of day 19 I saw one egg rocking a bit but nothing since. All looked good on the morning of day 19 when I candled before lockdown. I swapped them from a broody to incubator mid way through and we estimated they’d been cold for a max of 12 hours, would this...

Sorry to ask so many questions but I’ve never raised chicks outdoors before and I’m so worried about messing it up. My chicks hatch in around 5 days and want to start setting up brooder. (This may be a stupid question but I’m very clueless at these things 😂) I have an outdoor plug socket with a...

Unfortunately I’ve had to switch my eggs from my broody into the incubator meaning I will have to raise them myself. I plan on having the chicks outside in a prefab coop, they will obviously need a source of heat and I was wondering the best option. I’ve put a picture of the set up I have for...

I’m in shock, my Silkie has been broody for around 15 days now. Her eggs were progressing well, she had her own private brooding area/coop, she came out every day to eat food (corn and starter feed), she also drank plenty of water. She looked absolutely fine when I checked her this morning. A...

Do these eggs look viable at all? They’re light Sussex eggs although ones very dark, so could not be. Unfortunately I lost my torch so im using a phone torch which isn’t great and hard to see through , also the photos didn’t come out great. All of them seem to have a black dot which moves...