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Here is a pic of our easter egger hen "Scoop," who as you can see dislocated her beak when she was two days old. I though for sure she would die, but our little Scoop is a fighter and is now 5 months old. My question is this: she is obviously unable to eat as well as her sisters and is much...

I just ordered a bunch of chicken eggs to incubate and decided to try my hand at bantam eggs. I never thought about possible differences in incubation for the two, as i plan to incubate them together as one batch. I assumed they would be the same as chicken eggs, but never thought to check...

I'm looking in to hatching more eggs this spring. I already have 5 beautiful hens, all very docile. I wanted to introduce some bantams, but i'm not sure if the older hens will mix well with the bantams. I'm looking at a bantam breed that are apparently very friendly and docile. Anyone have any...

I'm in the process of building my coop, and am installing the roosts now. I was going to use a 1X2 board for one and a sturdy branch for the other. I had heard that if you live in northern climates, like I do, having a flat board roost can help prevent frost-bite as they can sit completely on...

Thought I would share: I recently hatched about two dozen perfectly healthy chickens. They were all killed from the fumes from cooking with teflon (non-stick) pans!! Beware!! I had no idea this could happen, but I have thrown out all my non-stick and this batch of babies, about 1 week old, have...

I have a baby, about 3 days old. Neck seems misshaped, but he is drinking some and eating. He cheeps a lot, I noticed a tiny bit of what I think is blood on his fluff. I'm worried if maybe he needs to be isolated so he can get a head start, will the other chicks be ok with him, or not?

I have a chick that just hatched about 16 hours ago, she was stuck in her shell, I had to help her out, I should have got to her sooner as she is completely coated in sticky hard yuck. I used a warm wet cloth to loosen her wings, as they were completely stuck to her body. But all her feathers...

In my first hatch I had about 20 chicks make it out of the eggs, 24 hours later they were moved to the brooder, and 24 hours after that they started chirping loudly, and flopping all over the brooder limply. They started suddenly seizing, and almost looked like they were choking. I did all i...