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Free feeding. We have a bucket with two street elbows they can help themselves from. They are pretty predictable as to how long it takes until it needs refilled.

3 2yo ISA Brown, a 3yo Rhode Island Red, and a 4yo Barred Rock produce a total of one egg a day (probably a single layer in the bunch, we don't know who it is) for 10 months now. There is no place for them to have a hidden nest/we look around. Unless they lay and eat right away, but then you...

Their second. So far, we must have only have "secret molters" as we have never really seen our hens molt. Is it more common in older or younger chickens?

Thank you so much!

We have 6 hens: 2 Rhode Island Reds, 1 Barred Rock, 3 ISA Browns. One of the Rhode Islands looks pretty bad- lost or broke lots of feathers on side and back of neck, next to comb, wing, tail. The other Rhode Island has lost or broken feathers on the side of the neck. The other 4 look fine...

Yes, they are feathered

Hi, We got the ISA Browns exactly three months ago. The white one is from my son's classroom and about 3 weeks older, was supposed to be a sexlinked pullet. But now I'm thinking he's a rooster. My friend saw him jump onto a pullet but I haven't seen him do that. They're all rather shy, so those...

Thank you! Note I have to find out which of our three sexlinks it is...

Does anyone have advice for me? We have one not quite two year old hen that has been laying eggs with extremely thin shell towards one end or no shell at all towards one end. (This led to egg eating for a while, which we resolved with nest box curtains that keep the eggs out of sight once the...

Thank you so much!

Both hatched May 21st, so they are almost 16 weeks old. After two days of no progress I assisted the right one. Maybe that's why it's so small? Anyways, the left one doesn't crow (yet), but the tail feathers look very male to me. Is it a rooster?

How did it continue? Did it have food stuck? My first thought was rooster. Happened to our "sexed as pullet chicks". Although it happen when they were about 8 weeks old.

The left chick in the picture is another one hatched today within 4 hours or less since i noticed a tiny crack in the egg. The right one is the one i assisted yesterday.

Thank you, zaapoole! I've studied that helpful post in and out. I might have been too quick to assist, don't know. After 26 hours after noticing the pipping, my husband carefully peeled some shell. The membranes underneath were completely dry. We moistened them and put it back under mama hen...

Yesterday morning was day 21 for our 6 eggs to be under our buff orpington. I found one of the chicks hatched and two eggs were pipped at 7 am yesterday. One of them hatched some time yesterday evening. The other one doesn't seem to progress. The pip barely got bigger. We can hear the chick...