We've had chickens for about 3 years now and this is a first. What to do?
We have a flock of 30 hens (primarily for eggs) and 2 roosters. One of our hens went broody about a month ago and we thought it would be fun to hatch our own chicks. Several weeks ago we realized that she was sitting on...
I've got 2 chickens that have an enlarged breast on the left side. If felt them and they are about the size of a baseball and a little soft. Is this something to worry about?
Last spring we got 10 chicks to augment our flock of 14 layers. As it turns out, 2 of them were cockerels. We decided to keep them anyway, but two things started to happen. The first is that even though we have 22 girls and 2 boys, they tend to gang up on about 6 or 8 of the girls who stopped...
We got 14 baby chicks for Easter, which makes them just over 14 weeks old. Two of them are taller and we are wondering if they are cockerels.
This one was named Rebecca initially, but now that we think she is a he, we're calling him Isaac. He/she was supposed to be an Ameraucana (probably...