house chicken

So I recently adopted this young pullet(who may be a rooster as she sometimes crows despite looking like a hen, we are waiting till shes old enough to lay eggs to be sure) and she has a deformed leg, I'm 99% sure it's a birth defect but im unsure what it's called exactly as I can't find any info...

Hola! Sophie and I started this wild ride of raising a bonded house chick 2.5 weeks ago. She hatched Monday July 24 and came home Tuesday July 25. Been loving using this site for great insight and resources whenever I have questions. Thought it was about time I actually joined instead of keep...

I have a single bird, a 9 month old cochin hen named Big Juicy. BJ is a house chicken and in a spot of trouble. I am getting her the best care I can and we're currently awaiting a date for surgery, and I have some instructions from the vet for care in the meantime, but I'm grateful for any tips...

My 7 year old silkie hen looked very cold and lethargic this morning after an extremely cold night. She's the lowest ranking and a little frail, so I was worried about her dying in the -30F with windchill, -10F without wind temperatures. I brought her inside and she perked up and has been...

I tried to search for this but didn't quite find what I was looking for- if anyone knows of a thread that discusses this, I would appreciate a link. Our chronically ill chicken, Chipmunk, gets a crypto relapse every time we try to re-introduce her to the flock (this last time I think being...

So this week it’s supposed to snow here and drop into the teens my chickens run and coop is sheltered and dry so they should be fine but I have one hen she’ll be turning 10 this spring I’m just worried about her in the cold weather so I was planning on bringing her in the house for a few days I...

Hey everyone (this one might be a long one), so a little backstory about this girl, got a brahma pullet from a breeder a few months ago. This pullet came with a broken leg which i couldn’t return because i picked her out myself. She looked lively and normal at the breeders but the second day at...

Hello BYC! Just now, my mother and I witnessed quite the peculiar event: one of our 3 year old Seramas flew into our house, perched on the kitchen counter, and slowly fell asleep. Now our chickens are free roamers, and never really enter our house, which is why this struck us as odd. This...

My housekeeper is slacking. PICK UP THE FOOD YOU SPILLED.

Ok, so I have a special needs Bantam Cochin who got to come inside for a snow storm, and is going to stay inside (there are a few reasons but I won't list them unless someone asks). Her name is Little Dorrit, she super sweet and queen of eye contact (lol). Anyways, does anyone who has, or has...

After hand raising (inside my home) for four months, 8 separate broods of chickens and Wild Guinea. I can safely say YES House Chickens ARE doable! Of these birds I picked two that were to be INSIDE chickens. I lost my best girl and her house mate was alone for a year.. I was her flock and she...

Hi there, I'm finally joining this community after consulting the threads several times to find info about our sweet bird. Primo the rooster, who we adopted under the assumption he was a rooster, was hand-raised and kept in the house til he was 4 weeks old, and we adopted him once the family...

Hello to all! I Joined today to make it all official. This is our first flock, but i grew up with chickens so i've been handling them since toddlerhood and my mom has been a "chicken lady" for 50 years plus-- so I think I get "grandmothered" in to the club :D. My wife and I have a flock of 18...

Hello! I have been reading posts and advice here for a long while! My name is Tonya and I live in Brevard County FL. I recently (last 6months) took in a rooster who has special challenges. When we took him in as a rescue, we were told from a friend (who had tried to take him in herself but her...

Bought 4 bantam chicks in march but three didn’t make it. We couldn’t find more then bc of pandemic so I ended up spending a lot of time with her because she was alone. Anyway she’s about 5 months now and we have 4 1 month old RI reds we got in june (who are very eager to stand up for themselves...

3 years ago I got a call from a friend to pick up a stray chicken who was unclaimed and soon to be euthanized by the vet. While I was watching the video of this mystery chicken, I just knew there was something special about her. My mum and I drove 40 minutes each way to pick her up. When I...

I need suggestions to help with my muddy chicken run. My run in coop was built from an old barn. The framing was good so this is not your ordinary small little store-bought chicken coop. But what we did not realize was the rain water drains directly down to it. We tried to put in a concrete...

Hello wonderful BYC community, Several months ago I rescued a days-old cross-break chick, figuring it'd be hospice care. Well, I must have done something right because the little guy is still with me and doing well despite his beak, his kinked neck and a host of other maladies. He even eats on...

Our 15 week old Bantam Polish pullet named Flying Eagle is now a house chicken. She can no longer use her legs aside from using one to hop so now she will live indoors with limited outdoor time with supervision. I'm now on the search for chicken diapers so that whenever she's not in her cage...

Last week we moved 9, 2 Cockerels and 7 Pullets, all 14 weeks old, to the new Coop after dark. Day one no issues. Day two found one of the Jersey Giant Pullets missing a 2x2 patch of feathers right side of her tail and bottom. The skin was torn and bloody. We cleaned her up and applied Wound...