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Well, last night I noticed that one of her comb tips looked injured and today I found a small nick on the back of her head (and more feathers appear to be missing), so we've tossed the other chickens out on their tails and we'll be segregating her while she's on the nest. The stress of the move...

Hi, I need a companion chick for a 1-ish day old marans/leghorn hybrid chick whose siblings didn't hatch. I live in Deschutes River Woods south of Bend. Does anyone have or know of someone with 1-3 day old chicks? I'm not picky on the breed. We raise our chickens for eggs and as pets, so your...

Hello! I have a bantam Cochin hen (Bitey Pants, ~1.3 years old) who is going bald on the back of her head. She went broody about a week or so ago, and we already had another hen in our other nest box, so we had no open nest boxes in the main coop (I know you're not supposed to hatch eggs in...

Hi, this is an old thread, but I have a similar problem. I had a similar thing happen except there was a complete egg inside the sac with a hard shell and all. The sac had yolk in it, with multiple layers of whatever made up the sac part. It was laid during the night while she was on the perch...

Well, she died today, fairly peacefully. I performed a necropsy on her and found nothing. No tumors, no obvious signs of worms, no crop problems, lung and heart looked fine, though the heart was much smaller than it should have been (probably from the wasting). She had nothing in her mouth...

Well, unfortunately I found skin tumors on her neck this evening while I was hand feeding her. The only disease that I've found that mentions skin tumors is Marek's. There are other tumor causing diseases, but none of them mention skin tumors (as far as I can tell). The two new hens are...

Hi! I just bought two ~5 month old hens from a woman on Craigslist. I live in Bend, OR (roughly 4000 ft elevation) and she lives in Yamhill, OR (roughly 180 ft elevation). I bought a Barnevelder and a Speckled Sussex. My brother in law was the one who actually picked up the hens and brought...

Hi! So we're getting eggs nearly daily from our bantam black copper maran. These are her eggs: For size comparison, clockwise from the back left the eggs are from our welsummer, cuckoo maran, leghorn, two from our maran bantam, and a brahma bantam. This is what they look like...

I'm not sure if I'd breed them, as I'm more of a pet chicken kind of person. Though it would be interesting! If we do sell the rooster (if he is a rooster), we'd definitely make sure that he goes to someone who appreciates him for his rarity :D. We'll decide once they're all grown up! The...

I just bought two ~2-3 month old bantam Black Copper Marans from The Double D Ranch in Prineville, OR at a chicken swap in Terrebonne, OR. I didn't think to ask what they were crossed with. They do have some white in their wings and have feathered feet. Sorry for the meh pics. This was taken...

Unfortunately the little Hamburg I was asking about died shortly after of Coccidiosis along with one of our silver laced wyandotte chicks. No one really showed symptoms until it was too late. In fact only 4 chicks out of 13 showed any symptoms at all, two of them died, two of them recovered. The...

Hi! I have two Silver Hamburgs that are 2 months old. We got them as newly hatched chicks at the same time (28March) from the same batch (from Wilco who got them from Privett). However, one of them is half the size of the other. She still seems to be developing, just really slowly. She eats...

Thanks mindylee and sbucciarel! That means we got pretty good odds from a straight run, 75% female!

I have 4 assorted Cochin bantams that I bought as chicks back in the middle of February (so they're about 3 months old). I have mostly identified their coloration (partridge, silver laced (?), white and mottled), and we've decided on a gender for all but the mottled. I've included pictures of...

Thanks!