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Thank you! She already seemed a bit more herself this evening. She came out of the run for a bit during their free range time. Their resiliency never ceases to amaze me!

My Easter Egger has ,for lack of better term, scalped the tip of her beak. She already has a very slight cross beak, but it has never caused issues with eating, drinking, or daily function. She is actually fairly high in the pecking order. I have some 8 week old chicks in a separate run that she...

I have an Easter Egger that laid her first egg the day before she was one year old! Don't lose hope yet! Just a few days before I had decided she was never going to lay and that was okay because she's my sweetest little girl.

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I give them Nutrena NatureWise All Flock pellets. I don't give them any scratch or grains extra.

About 2 days ago I noticed one of my 6 month old BCMs still had a food boob when I opened the coop in the morning. Her crop had not fully emptied overnight. I gave her some coconut oil and started massaging her crop every few hours. She was showing no signs of being uncomfortable or ill. She...

I'd say it's a pullet but I am no pro. This is what my BCM cockerel looked like at about 12 weeks

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge and insight! With time being a factor, I went out last evening and bought a pre-fab coop from the farm supply store that will hold about 4 or 5 chickens. (of course the box said it has a much higher capacity, I don't know what these manufacturers think...

Thank you! This makes a lot of sense. I put the BCM cockerel out to free range by himself (and give some of the girls a break) this evening for a couple hours. While the pullets that he has been terrorizing were much more at ease with him out of the run, a few of the females that he doesn't...

That is wonderful advice and I am grateful for it.

Thank you for your feedback! I should have been more clear when I made the comment about the mowed grass...it is only partially mowed at any given time, I mow about one-third to a half at a time and leave the rest for the bees. We have tons of clover and I see honey bees in it frequently; in an...

Thank You for your insight! We do not have any children here, ours are all adults. No grandkids yet either, so we are safe on the kid front. I know that 3 males was too many for the 15 pullets, when we ordered 2, it was basically in case one didn't live or work out. We ended up with 3...

I spent a couple hours reading similar threads trying to find an answer because I know this is a fairly common issue, but I still have a few unanswered questions. Your help is Greatly appreciated! I have 3 cockerels, 2 BR and 1 BCM, along with 15 pullets, BR, EE, and BCM's. They are all 13...

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Thank you! After ordering our chicks, I regretted not ordering a male BCM because I think they are beautiful...I guess I got one anyway!

Thank you! I thought so and I was going to try to wait and see if he crowed or laid an egg but patience is not my virtue!

I got 3 BCMs, all supposed to be pullets....the other 2 look totally different, comb is much smaller and no color in it.

All are same bird, all taken in the last week (different times of day) and the section of run closest to coop is covered so no natural light could be why it looks all black sitting in the door. The hatchery I bought them from said they hatched on April 4th so 6 weeks old or in the 7th week of...

Sorry, I should have mentioned that in my post...6 weeks.