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My neighbor's cat and dog went after a nest of newly hatched quail, and killed the parents and most of the chicks. She rescued two and called me to take them, since we have chickens. I have them in a brooder under a heat lamp with water and finely ground all purpose poultry food. It may be a few...

This is Iceman, white cochin, around 8 weeks. I'm thinking boy, what do you think?

Got this little guy out of a mixed banty bin at Coastal. I'm pretty sure he's a white cochin, but could these be frizzle feathers I'm seeing?

Hello all! I picked up a few banty chicks from an assorted bin. The store orders from both Welp and Dunlap. I'm 99% sure we've got a red cochin and a white cochin, but this little stripey one has me stumped. He/she does have feathered legs. Any ideas?

Hello all! I picked up 4 new babies at the feed store yesterday, and know what three of them are, but the owner of the store wasn't sure what the fourth one is, as apparently they got a lot of miscellaneous layers that weren't labeled. The three black and white ones are a Barred Rock, a Cuckoo...

Hello - We just got 6 guinea fowl today. They are 3 - 3 1/2 months old. How long should we keep them shut in before we let them start free ranging with the chickens? Thanks!

The feed store had some extra polish chicks from a special order someone made, so I picked two up along with my other 5 chicks I had ordered. One of them is a gold laced, but the lady at the feed store couldn't remember what other colors they had ordered. It's the front chick in this pic. Thanks!

Just some pictures from around the yard today. This is our pullet that went broody on us, and the 7 chicks we tricked her with. She is SO sweet with them! From left to right...Cordelia, Pansy (the evil one!), and Daisy. There was nothing in the planter, they are just weird! Fraggle...

My last 6 chicks I raised in the house in a brooder, and did not let them have scratch until they were outside and close to 9 weeks old or so. I recently got 7 more chicks, and when they were about a week old, one of my pullets went broody. We were able to slip the chicks to her, and a week...

Hello! One of my pullets (about 8 months) went broody about a week and a half ago. I just happened to have 7 not quite week old chicks in a brooder in the shop, so after a couple of days, we slipped them under her. She took to being a momma SO good :-) We used chicken wire to block off a large...

I just got DH to agree to a "few" more chicks...HOORAY! I found out my local feed store is putting in a special order Mid-May, and I can add anything I want, in as small of quantities as I want. My ideal flock size (at this point) is 10-12 hens, maybe a couple of banties, and 1 roo. We...

Two of my girls are just starting to lay. So far, they have completely shunned the nest boxes, preferring to either lay on the clean shavings on the poop board, once in the shavings on the floor of the coop, or in the most popular option, the nest of pine needles that one of the cockerels made...

I have found 3 eggs in less than 24 hours from one pullet that is definitely laying, and one that has been ready to lay for a while. Buttercup has been laying since last Wednesday, and quite consistently. She lays a medium sized kind of cream colored egg, and has laid every day except Friday...

Okay, so I think I have DH talked into getting 6-8 new chicks, as our local feed store will be putting in a special order mid-May, and I can get some of the breeds that I want. He is adamant that the chicks are not going to be in the house again though. We just moved the last few outside about...

Okay, that probably wasn't her intent, but JEEZ! We moved the 10 week olds into the big coop this last weekend, and other than a few pecks here and there, things have been fine. The bigger chickens basically ignore them, and the three little ones just kind of keep to themselves. The last 2...

So very exciting! This morning, our rooster was making the weirdest purring, growling, clucking noise, so I went to find him, and he was under our log splitter, making a nest. One of our two older pullets (about 6 months) was standing there watching him. After a few minutes, he got out, and...

Hello - A lady here in my town has a whole bunch of 1 year old laying hens for sale, for $4 each!! I am working on getting a diverse flock, as far as breeds and colors go. She has Black Sex Links, Buff Brahmas, Gold Sex Links, and Buff Orpingtons. I already have an Orp and a (I think) Gold...

Do Sebrights typically have purple and green iridescence in their black? My golden sebright girl (I hope, I hope!) has a ton of purple in her black, and the silver boy has a fair amount of green.

Help, I have a very randy rooster (about 6 months old or so), and for the last two weeks, he's been jumping my poor little 6 month old pullets without warning. I have three 10 week old pullets in a separate coop, and have been free ranging them together with supervision for the last couple of...

I'm just wondering what the youngest is that you've had a pullet lay an egg? I have 3 10 week old pullets, a barred rock, australorp, and a buff orpington, and in the last couple of days their faces have started pinking up. No comb or wattle development, so I'm not thinking they are really...