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I just picked up 4 chicks from the pullet bin at tractor supply. 2 olive eggers and 2 cream legbars. I thought I had read that make olive eggers had a black spot and the females didn’t, but all of them in the bin had the white spot. Does it depend on what they are bred with?

1 of my 3 bantams ended up a roo but we love him so we just have a tiny rooster. Is it a bad idea to add just 1 more pullet or do I need to add 2? The 3 I have are about 6 months. Also, none of our 3 really like to be held. The roo did till he started getting teenage grumpy but the 2 pullets...

Do you think the white is bantam or standard sized? She’s a lot bigger than the other two, all barnyard mixes though so I’m not sure how much height can vary

I bought 3 bantam chicks a month ago, I have my doubts the white one is bantam, she’s a lot bigger than the other two. Also any guess on genders? They’re about 10 weeks

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Does anyone else have family that makes fun of them for having chickens? I got my first coop for Christmas, it’s small but it fits a few bantams in my backyard. I also garden a ton, it’s my happy place. Since I told them I wanted chickens certain family members have made jokes about it every...

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I have fish mox, enthrotex, and doxycycline any of those good for chicken respiratory issues?

I feel like something is wrong with this 4 week old bantam frizzle I just got. I know literally nothing about chickens really so I have nothing to judge it on but she seems to be breathing audibly while the others are not. She’s also doing what sounds to me like sneezing, but I couldn’t get it...

I really hope not, she likes to be cuddled, sat in my arms yesterday till my arms got tired and I made her go back xD. I don’t think I could rehome

Is that bad? I thought that was normal for chicks?

She(hopefully) is a month old. I was only told she’s a bantam. Her colors are so pretty but it doesn’t really match any breed I had researched

Updated, I’m in Texas but on the coast. In gardening terms zone 9b. As long as we don’t have another Texas once in a lifetime freeze like last year it almost never gets below freezing. It also doesn’t usually get above 95, but I have a constant 70-80% humidity so the “feels like” temp in the...

Yeah I was originally looking at prefab ones but they seem to be basically a waste of money. But my carpentry skills aren’t great. Plus most of the designs I see are basically big boxes. I live in a subtropical region, my winter is usually 40-50 degrees. I feel like a solid coop is going to...

Why? I read 5 sq ft of coop per chicken and 10 sq ft of run