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Would these additional pictures of the Spitz help? And the lady I bought the barnevelder from swore up and down it was a barnevelder bantam.

Hi, I need help sexing these Appenzeller Spitzhauben, Barnevelder and white crested Polish chicks! I bought one of each of these and a white bearded silkie that the seller guaranteed is a girl or I can bring it back for a laying female or 2x money back. They are all 6-7 weeks old I have a...

All of the chickens are confirmed females and I don't have any roosters I obviously cannot keep any roosters if I'm worried about noise. The coop is perfect don't worry about that and I don't have any room to plant anything around it. I am not changing anything about the coop. What I need to...

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Hi. I have a very large coop and run that is 100% shaded and has lots of ventilation and is very high with multiple perches at varying heights. I have 3 feeders and 3 waterers. The whole coop and run are 100% protected from predators and extremely spacious, it's a gigantic Kingdom for...

Are there any chicken experts in Broward that I could pay $20 to drive over and give me their opinion/recommendation on my flock's health and coop set-up? I have 5 silkies and live in the north fort lauderdale/pompano beach area. I'm very new to chickens and their poos are getting weird...

I handle them all the time and feel their crops and chest and backs regularly, thats how I noticed the bump in the ones back. I almost think she had a fall and broke something and it healed this way cuz its making her asymetrical now. I just got that one a month ago so it was 6 months with...

I have: 2 - 9 month olds who are laying 2 - 7 month olds who are not laying yet 1 - 3 month old that I think is either a roo or a silkie mixed with a diff type of chicken cuz her toes are different. I feed them Purina unmedicated start and grow mixed with Poultry Booster brand vitamins and...

I'll try to upload some pics later after work but its something you have to feel for more than see. they're so fluffy its hard to tell visually. it took me a while myself to notice.

sigh... I do have an avian vet. Its a really long story but basically one of our girls got attacked by a rat and is now one legged and surviving thanks to our local avian vet who is really a godsend. But we've spent waaay, ($1000+) WAAAY TOO MUCH on that one bird but it was my wife's favorite...

Are there any chicken experts in Broward that I could pay $20 to drive over and give me their opinion/recommendation on my flock's health and coop set-up? I have 5 silkies and live in the north fort lauderdale/pompano beach area. I'm very new to chickens and their poos are getting weird...

Broward county checking in!

One has white watery poop, one has dark diarrhea-like poop, one has a big bony bump growing in her back and making her asymmetrical. The hardest part is that I dont know what to look for. If I ever had a vet come and see them they'd probably notice more wrong.

Howdy. I'm a young married man who relatively recently bought his first house and started a huge garden and then one morning his wife saw an ad on Offer up for $10 Silkie chicks, and now we have 5 chickens of varying ages and only half a clue about what we're doing. I've had a parrot for...