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THANKS!

Along the same lines...... I thought it would be a great idea to incubate a few eggs, so I bought some. Two chicks hatched and are now 7 weeks old and fully feathered. They have been in my bathroom in a big plastic tub that is too small for them. I want them out in the coop. Will they be...

What is a huddle box?

It does make sense, thanks. I'll have to get pictures of them. They are also very skittish with my other chickens and they've been together now for several weeks.

One would think that the person I bought them from would know, but she sold them to me as welsummers to start with, so I'm not sure WHAT she knows.

Is there something specific that shows the difference between a brown Leghorn and a bantam brown Leghorn? I purchased, at $15 each, 2 chickens that I THOUGHT were welsummers. That is how they were advertised. I was specifically looking for DARK BROWN egg layers to add to my flock. Imagine my...

Hi ALL, I'm actually emd1174 - that was a user name I had on an old acct and accidentally signed in on that when I was posting this question. Anyway, it turns out that I was sold chickens that were misidentified as Welsummers. They ARE brown leghorns. White ear flaps. Clearly seen...

UPDATE: Haha, 2 years later. This chicken, whom I call "Gimpy" is still going strong. She limps, but it doesn't stop her from doing anything. I free ranged until recently and she was all over the property. Thankfully, she wasn't one of the ones taken by a predator. I no longer free range at...

Thank you! Yes, That's the plan - putting her out with them but separate. I have hesitated til now to even put her outside as she has been inside in the warmth for so long. Hoping the weather starts to get better soon. I am concerned on where she will eventually sleep. I hope that she gets...

I have a RIR that broke her leg last fall. I nursed her through the winter and since its been a LONG COLD winter, she's been indoors for almost 6 months! Mostly in the crate, occasionally I let her out, but typically she just stands around. She has full use of the leg, but limps. I can't...

The chick is fully feathered and is about 10 weeks old now. I will have to get a current picture of it. I'll look in the cat crate idea, too.

Honestly, I don't know if I have any chickens I would trust with a newbie. But I have a week to look into it. I WAS thinking, though of using a dog crate for the baby in the big coop, but again - I'm worried about it being too cold - it won't be roosting with the other chickens and their...

I'm in Kinderhook, NY - just south of Albany. We ordered a late batch of meat birds in late October - 25 Cornish Cross males - from McMurray Hatchery. They sent me 26 chicks plus an "exotic" chick (I think it's a Cuckoo Maran - not sure of the sex) - which they do with each order I guess. Its...

Eventually she started laying on her nest ALL the time, so I believe it was because she was broody! Not sure I understand the correlation, but perhaps she was so used to laying down like that all the time it became habit. She is no longer broody, and she only occasionally has her neck tucked...

We have a female leghorn approximately 13 weeks old that was injured last week. A 1/2 sheet of plywood blew over from an upright position - on top of her. Since then she's been limping. We picked her up and palpated her leg and moved in every which way we could. She didn't seem to react much...