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I’m not sure. I bought these hatching eggs online, so I don’t know or have the parents. I’m treating it like a vitamin deficiency and hoping that it reverses. I’m not sure what to do if this doesn’t work though.

I pulled her out of the incubator and syringe fed her some vitamin E oil with a little bit of crushed selenium. She tries to stand and walk but her head is bowed over and she falls. She has occasionally been able to stretch her neck straight but, as soon as she tries to stand, it curls back under.

I need advice! This is my first time hatching chicks and today is day 20. I have 2 chicks that have hatched already and 7 eggs all with pips in the incubator. One chick is trying to stand but it’s head is curled under and it looks like it has no control. It’s flopping and falling everywhere and...

Those all look like pullets to me, but I’m also relatively new to chickens. Every Pullet that I had that turned out to be a cockerel had flowing tails and were crowing by that age.

I won’t be able to keep him if he’s a male. Do roosters typically mount other cockerels?

Update, Stila (his name before I knew he was a him) now lives on a farm just outside of town with plenty of other chickens to keep him company. I would have loved to keep him but my neighborhood does not allow it. Thank you all for your help!

I have a bantam polish chicken and am having a hard time figuring out if it is a boy or girl. She is 12 weeks old and has a long flowing tail. I have heard her crow several times but she does not do it routinely. I had a chicken that I realized was a rooster not long ago and thought that my...

Is it the saddle feathers that makes y’all say that? Are there other clues?

This chicken is about 12 weeks old and was sold to me as a chick sexed as a female. She has outgrown the rest of my flock, despite supposedly being the same age, and is the head of the hierarchy. I e also noticed that she has started dropping one wing and circling one of my hens that is older...