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She is a 3 to 4 month old pullet. I think she is some type of Phoenix and is smaller than the other juveniles in her pen. I noticed about a week ago she was having trouble with one leg. Thinking one of the bigger juveniles trampled her or something, I moved her to a pen with smaller and...

I have a 6 week old Orpington chick who up until recently had a small 'thing' on his back about where it joins the neck and wing. It's bare and looked a little puffy there. When he is excited, it would kind of pulse. Also, he has very few feathers and is the size of a 3 week old chick...

Anyone feed it to horses? After reading all the benefits of feeding it to chickens, I wondered if it could be fed to horses. I am finding almost no information on it. Searches keep coming up with chaffhay. I was thinking of keeping it simple and using their current feed and alfalfa/timothy...

I had 3 chicks sold to me as Welsummers. The brown one at the back and the black/white one to the right in the one picture are two of them. The 3rd one is also black/white. Both of the black/white one are roosters. Do any of these look like Welsummers to you knowledgeable folks?

I knew she was aggressive because she was given to me after going out of her way to attack half grown chicks. She was kept penned at her previous home so I hoped if kept free range, it wouldn't happen. I have her and my adult chickens in one coop and chicks (half grown now) in another coop...

I have a hen that just loves going broody. I gave her 7 eggs that were layed on two consecutive days. One hatched the other day and is fine. I checked back a day and a half later and 2 were partly hatched and covered in ants and dead. Another was hatched and had ants on it but was alive...

My alpha roo got beat up and run off by the younger but full grown roo. He has been living in my feed shed since then. At first it was so he could recover since he was injured and then spent a night in the woods and got rained on. Now he has no confidence. I put him out in the pasture now...

Funny how when I kept them inside in a brooder (aka cardboard box) they were scared of me. Now I trip over them! They've been outside almost a month now and most are fully feathered. I have one breed that was slower in feathering out but two chicks of that breed still aren't fully feathered...

We had a cold front come through yesterday and out temps were expected to be in the 20s. I have the babies in a mini hoop house covered with a tarp. I added another tarp and added more shavings. The heat lamps are positioned over the bottom half of a large dog crate to help hold in the heat...

Outside that is. They're 2 1/2 weeks old and the dust is horrible. We have no garage and our shed doesn't have electric. So, DH and I put together a mini hoop house today. It's just off our back porch so we can run an extension cord to it. It is roughly 4 x 8 x 3. We used one stock panel...

Actually, they will be 2 weeks old tomorrow. All 52 are healthy and I was lucky to not lose any!

50, to be exact! Shhh, don't tell my husband. I told my husband I was ordering and that the minimum was 25 and kind of let him think that's how many I ordered. They come on Friday! I'm so excited. I ordered the pullet Surprise Special. I couldn't make up my mind what I wanted so thought I...

Last summer I bought a couple of Welsummers at a local Trader Days. They were being sold as pullets so I knew they were probably from a hatchery and probably wouldn't lay dark brown eggs. I like the look of the breed so laying dark brown eggs would have been a plus. One started laying last...

I have a rooster that is around a year old. I have had him for about 5 months. Several weeks ago his neck seemed to be injured. It was like it was too heavy for him to hold upright without effort. His neck will twist around so his head is kind of upside down. Once he starts moving, he...

She was given to me last week. I'm not sure exactly what color she is but she sure is cute. Poor thing has deformed feet but gets around all right. She has adopted my broodie hen who has 3 chicks. Surprisingly, the broodie is cool with the silkie hanging out with her and her babies. I...

I have a broody hen that lost the last batch due to another hen laying eggs in the same nest and one broke and got all over them. Since she was still broody, I let her claim some fresh eggs. This was a week ago. I checked today and another egg broke, probably the same reason as there are more...

We have 2 acres and the chickens have run over half of it. So where does this chicken want to be? In the back yard with my dogs. She jumped a 5 ft tall fence to do it. She was a stray some friends gave me a few weeks ago. I guess she liked to wonder. What's kind of odd is that most of the...

I went to a trade days today and bought a young pullet. On the way home, I realized she seemed to have a bit of a wheeze. Well, she was going to quaranteen anyway so I didn't take her back. As soon as I got home, I have her a shot of Tylan 50. I've done it before and never had an issue. She...

Someone gave me the cutest little silkie hen. She's a tannish sort of color. I don't have silkies but read they can be kept with regular sized hens so I agreed to take her. Well, when I got her home, I realized she was walking kind of weird and then noticed her feet are kind of deformed. Do...

I have a broody sitting on eggs. Another hen likes to lay her eggs in the same nest and broke her own egg. It is all over the other eggs and they are due to hatch soon. Can I clean them or do I just leave them alone? Thanks