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My hen hatched 3 eggs a few days ago and another hen killed one chick and was after another. The chick is ok, except her foot looks to be almost amputated. I tried to splint it but when I put the chick back it with its mother, the mother pulled off the splint. What should I do? Remove the foot...

My hen hatched 3 eggs a few days ago and another hen killed one chick and was after another. The chick is ok, except her foot looks to be almost amputated. I tried to splint it but when I put the chick back it with its mother, the mother pulled off the splint. What should I do? Remove the foot...

I ordered 25 Freedom Rangers that are due June 10th. This gives me time to build a coop for them. I looked at various tractor coops and thought a 10 x 10 x 2 coop would work for 25 birds. My question is how do you keep the birds healthy without having them vaccinated? My current egg layer...

This is my second try at incubating and the first batch fully developed but never piped. My guess the humidity was too low, under 50% and I kept the lid plugs in the entire time. Today is day 22, second hatch, and still no piping. I maintained a constant 99.5 degrees that entire time, with...

I lost my entire flock this week to a weasel. It managed to get under the fence, at a low, uneven ground area. It left a mess and before I build a new flock, I need to come up with a way to prevent this from happening again. The coop is tractor style with an adjacent run. It is fenced-in but...

I have 2 olive egger's and I am beginning to think the one in the back is a Roo. I wanted 2 pullets..What do you think?

I brought home 2 olive eggers last week, apprx 9 weeks old. I added them to my flock of 6, which are about 13 weeks old. For the most part, all is well. The question I have is that one of the new chickens has a cough and I am concern about something spreading to the healthy chickens. This is...

Does anyone know if this is a blue cooper maran or a Blue Orp? She does have feathered legs but I am still not sure. I have 2 of these, and they have different eye and beak color. Any advise?