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I've been wanting a dairy animal for awhile. I've gone back and forth between goats and cows. Cows have fewer fencing requirements, but produce way more milk than my family will consume. Goats need hardy fencing, but produce less milk and will probably have a lower maintenance cost over all than...

I'm looking for some lavender or blue orpington chicks. Sexed or unsexed. Ideally I would like a rooster and a few hens. Looking to get 3-5 chicks. If older chicks, looking for really friendly, docile chicks. I'm located in nw pa. If anyone is local to that area I'd be happy to pick up...

Thanks everyone! This was the most helpful for determining space needs. Whatever I build is going to be much larger than necessary for my current flock. I think I will do some number crunching, pick a sq ft that makes sense for me and then as my flock grows see how many fit comfortably. They...

Hey everyone! This spring I plan on building a proper coop and run but determining the size is tricky. I currently have 11 chickens but plan on gradually increasing flock size to around 30 over the next couple years. They free range full time except when we go away on vacation. They get locked...

I put betadine on it. Her leg is pretty mangled. I just hope she doesn't get an infection. She seems content to just lay in the cage until she's hungry.

My brown leghorn pullet has a deep gash in her leg. Something (probably a coon) gashed it to the bone. I brought her inside, flushed the wound with a mixture of 1tbs bleach, 1tbs baking soda, 1 gallon of water. Then I wrapoed it in sterile gauze and put her in a cage. She is eating and...

Seems it was an isolated incident. None of the hens are showing signs and we've been working at cleaning out the coop thoroughly.

Yesterday I got my first pip at day 20. This morning at around 4:30am i found my first chick! A brown leghorn!

We sent him for a necropsy. The initial diagnosis is aspergillosis, like you suggested. I just hope the other chickens haven't got it now they spent the last week in the coop. I'm in the process of cleaning and disinfecting everything.

It's the little giant incubator.

I have 20 eggs incubating. They are on week 2. Should hatch early May. Humidity stays between 40-50%. Temp seems to fluctuate a bit but never goes below 90 unless the incubator is open too long when turning. This is my first time hatching. I've candled some a few times and at leadt half seem...

He died today. Poor guy. We are sending him for a necropsy on Monday. None of the other chickens are sick. So that's something.

He is getting worse. Just wants to sleep. Hardly drinks even with the dropper. I was getting him to eat by hand feeding his feed mixed with yogurt, but now he won't. He is purple. Before he would start to improve, then be not so great, and would go up and down. I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose...

He made it through the weekend and actually started to improve. His color came back and the wheezing lessened. We took him to the horse vet and he said he's not a bird vet but would try to help. He diagnosed mycoplasma and gave us tylan for the water, enough for the whole flock. He's had his 2...

I've been giving him water with probiotics in an eyedropper. If i drip it in his mouth when it's open he will swallow. Other than that he doesn't show any interest in anything.