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Out of 10, now I'm down to 4 after two weeks. They have proper heat. They have plenty of water. No sign of disease on any of them now. When I check in the morning, they all look healthy and great. 12 hours later, one will be dead. I'm at a loss. The only thing I can think of is that the...

For the first week we had them, the 10 BBB turkeys were doing well. Then last night one was dead, and this morning another two were dead. Heat was good, food and water were good. This afternoon I think I found the culprit. One of them was going around pecking at the bottoms of all the other...

Ugh, this is frustrating. Of the 12 birds, about half are using the next boxes like nice girls. The other half insist on laying eggs outside, from their roost, wherever. Before they started I put yellow golf balls in the nest to try to train them. Apparently some of them couldn't get it. I...

A couple of days ago I noticed several down feathers laying around the coop. At first I thought it was the newer chicks establishing themselves and standing up to the main hen. We have one BR hen who is 1.5 years old--the only one out of the group to survive a neighbor's dog attack last April...

Here's the background: A few months ago a neighbor's dog killed all but one of my chickens. So we got some more. From about 3 weeks of age to about 7 weeks I walled off part of the run and kept the new chicks in that area. The wall is nothing but chicken wire, so the older chicken could see...

I was standing on the back porch, and down swooped this big Cooper's hawk, hit the top part of the fence on the run, and flew away as my dog started chasing it. It's the first hawk I've seen in years. We live smack dab in the middle of a residential area near a big city, so it was a bit of a...

We got a dozen chicks in last Tuesday. On one of the EEs, she has a very bad limp. I can't detect an injury anywhere, and when standing still, she can stand pretty straight-no bowed legs. However, when she walks, she limps very bad on the right leg. And when she rests, the leg splays out at...

Woot! Ordered 12 from MPC and they shipped yesterday; got them this morning. All 12 were alive and well. And after about an hour or so of water and crumbles, all were pooping just fine, and no pasties These were the replacements for the ones my neighbor's dog got to a few months ago. We...

We recently had new neighbors move in. They have a sheep dog looking thing and a pit bull. Apparently this morning they busted through the wooden fence, knocking one of the boards out. The pit bull proceeded to literally tear the metal wire away from the gate and kill all of our chickens...

The chickens are almost a year old; we've got 6 (3 RIR, 1 BR, 1 BsL, and 1 Silkie). We noticed it first with the Silkie. Some of the others (I haven't narrowed the culprits down yet) started plucking out the head feathers of the Silkie. I get home tonight and I see one of the RIR standing on...

What are the odds of a double yolk egg? I imagine it's similar to twins in other species, but the reason I ask is because of the 6 hens we have, we get a huge double yolk egg nearly every other day. They just started laying just over a month ago, and they pretty much free range all over our...

my luck is not so good. 4 weeks ago I got 4 BR pullets from the feed store with my son. Now that the birds are 4 weeks old, it's obvious that only 1 was a BR pullet. I've got 2 roos (1 BR and 1 Australorp) and 1 australorp pullet. Hmm...I understand sexing at the hatchery might have been...

Almost 4 weeks ago we went to the feed store to get 3 barred rock hens. Now that they are older, I don't think that's what we got. I admit I am by no means an expert, but it looks like we have a roo, a hen, and some breed that I don't know of. I'm hoping someone could help me out please...

We picked up 2 silkies yesterday, and we put them in with our week old RIRs. We also have 3 3 week old barred rocks. One of the silkies in particular seems to sleep all of the time, and both seem to sleep a lot more than the RIRs or BRs ever did. Is that just because they are silkies? I...

First off, although I am new to the forum, I have lurked here and found lots of good information on how to raise my chicks. I grew up on a farm, but haven't had chickens in over 20 years. We decided to finally get some layers because a) I don't want to support battery farms, and b) home grown...