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I have a 7 week old peachick that one of my hens hatched . She has always been with Chicken Mama and was introduced to the rest of the flock of chickens 3 days ago. They free range in the day and are locked up at night. I noticed that the chick had a drooping wing yesterday, but I couldn't...

I have a 7 week old peachick that one of my hens hatched . She has always been with Chicken Mama and was introduced to the rest of the flock of chickens 3 days ago. They free range in the day and are locked up at night. I noticed that the chick had a drooping wing yesterday, but I couldn't...

This is Milosh, my 7 week old Black Shoulder. Any guesses about gender? There are several green feathers on the back of its neck/ between shoulders (of course I couldn't get them to show up in the photos) and around the eyes.

A friend gave me 4 peafowl eggs to set under my broody hen. One hatched on day 23, I think (while we were on vacation- set them so we would be home in time for the hatch, go figure). We came home on day 24 and the chick was totally dry and walking around with mama in the coop. She didn't want...

I have a broody sitting on eggs due to hatch on 10/15. A second hen in my flock has gone broody and nothing seems to be working to break her. Can I just give her a couple of the eggs that will hatch next week? She doesn't have some internal calendar or something like that, does she? Any advice...

Our 15 chicks we hatched are 26 weeks old today. I have been extremely anxious as NONE of them were laying yet!! My friend has 8 of the chicks I hatched at the same time and hers started laying at 20 weeks! Today I checked and...we got 3 tiny eggs!! I attribute the delay to a perfect storm...

I have 2 barred rock hens who had heat exhaustion in the 110 degree heat 3 weeks ago. They seem to have recovered nicely and are back to their silly selves. Neither has laid since the incident. Do you think they are done? Will they lay for me again. They just turned a year. Anything I...

I've found really conflicting info on broody leghorns. Some people claim they don't go broody, but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to the contrary. Looks like they rarely go broody in their first year, after that, it's more common. I *could* put the eggs in the incubator, but I'm...

My 2 year old leghorn was showing all signs of being broody. She sat for 3 days on 10 eggs and was very mean (screaming, raising hackles and attempting to bite) when we opened the egg door of the henhouse. So, I moved her last night (in the dark) to our spare coop. She has not sat at all today...

I wondered if you were still interested in a Roo. I only ended up with 4! I can send you pics if you are interested.

On Friday the 29th we experienced a major storm (the same storm that took out trees and power along the East Coast). We lost over 50 trees on our property (10 were across our driveway!). During the storm, an ENORMOUS pecan tree in our back yard fell. It was all I could to to keep from...

This was my thought, as well! I love the look of the building and my great grandfather built it. The roof is sound, as is the floor. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of how to set up the interior to divide the space, allow access to the outdoors for both sides...