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My daughter bought some more TSC chicks even though we have stopped raising babies of our own because of her bird dander allergy. Lol. These all came from the TSC mixed bantam bin. We have two buff silkies, a BB red OEGB, and two who knows. We thought they would end up being some other color of...

I have two EE/Game cross chicks (8.5 weeks old). My white EE hen (I think half white leg horn and half EE) had gotten out of her pen and had been hanging on the yard with a game flock for a month before I got her. Right when I brought her home I had a hen go broody so I plopped her first two...

I bought three barred Cochin bantams from a straight run bin. They are all girls and right now I have no rooster for them unless I put them with a silkie. Which I know would give me sex links based on skin color. I have some black star pullets as well and I just LOVE their color. I know the...

I'm having some trouble sexing my buff brahma bantams. I've heard they could all be males. I thought at first I had 2 males and 4 females. Now I'm thinking it's 3 and 3. They're almost 8 weeks old now. I've got pictures of them individually and a few group pictures. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)...

I have a mystery that I can't figure out. Predator that eats eggs and leaves the hen alone, comes in broad daylight, never at dawn, dusk, or after dark. Can fit through a 3 inch gap in a garage door left cracked open for airflow for a broody hen, when my small cat cannot. Has to be big enough to...

I have a 4-5 month old pullet, who a couple of weeks ago couldn't walk. She was walking on her hocks, her wing on the left side droops, and her left leg is not working well. Every time I try to catch her, she gets up and runs away drunkenly. She's not very agile but she is still fast and will...

So my chicks under the broody hen are hatching. So far we are up to 5. With 7 more eggs to go. Excuse the disgustingly dirty nest box and the two poopy eggs... this hen not only poops in the nest box every single day (on top of her giant smelly broody poops she leaves outside the nest every day)...

This is what they looked like a little over a week ago when we first got them. This is what they look like now. I tried to get a good picture of what the feathers growing out on the wings looked like, and the chick was not having it. So they're very awkward photos. Lol. I was hoping they...

So I went crazy and bought all 14 straight run bantam chicks in the bantam bin. Most are cochins I believe. But I ended up with two clean legged chicks that are smaller than the others and I have no clue what they are. This one has dark legs and light feet. I've seen a few baby chicks that...

I got three new silkies last night and found chicken lice. So I've got to treat them. Only one had any signs but she is bad. The other two have no signs but I'm going to treat them all. I'm trying to figure out the best way. I'm going to move the baby chickens into the spare bath tub and use the...

I know. I know. My silkies are broken. They will not go broody. When I first got them in the summer they each laid an egg and then that was it. No more. Until October. They began laying again in October after they were moved into a pen with our silkie rooster. It took me weeks to find a nest box...

We have a broody hen that we had to separate and move. By the time my husband told me she was setting, it had already been a week and the eggs were developing. I hadn't planned on hatching babies but I just couldn't bring myself to toss them. They free range on 1/3 of an acre, fenced in, so she...

I've been searching the internet for a month, reading forums, reading up on any chicken illness I can and I can not figure out what is going on. A month ago I had a hen that was walking funny, and mostly laying down. I thought she may be eggbound. As there were no other symptoms I treated for...

Our Great Pyrenees, Luna, has never made it to the point where she can be trusted around our chickens. She was raised surrounded by chickens. She was over 6 months when we brought her home. She spent 6 months with just her and a pot belly pig sharing the backyard. Then we got chickens. At first...

Is this normal for Silkies to have earlobes that are funny colored? At first I attempted to clean him off, it didn't come off. Then I thought it may be a fungus. I've tried looking all over the internet and now I've seen a wide range of silkie earlobe colors. Not any closeups though. Does he...

We have never coddled our chickens. I don't pet them. We feed them, water them, make sure they're healthy. The most I touch them is when I move them off my back steps to their roost. This morning one of my red stars, not even the one that hangs around my feet 24/7, flew into my arms and then...

We had assumed our two EE chicks that bit the dust over a month ago was the result of an owl, the one that tried to tote off one of our piglets and failed. When we found them they didn't have a broken bone or scratch on them. Just missing feathers on their backs. We assumed something had tried...

A lot of yard chickens around here are some type of game chicken. These came to us as one day old little babies Easter weekend. A friend came home from work the night before and his dog had killed the mother. These 5 are the survivors. They must have been brand new, it took them almost 2 days to...

It's been a while since I've been online, busy lives. Our little zoo keeps us busy. I keep telling my husband I'm going to get a goat and open a petting zoo. Lol. Our flock started out with 12 chickens and now we are down to 10. Two of our easter eggers didn't make it and I believe the third...

So the piglets will be three weeks old tomorrow night. My dad, who used to raise farm hogs, is coming over this weekend to help us castrate the males. We have 5 boys and 3 girls. Since Pearl was such a miserable pregnant pig we are not going to breed her again (daddy pig was put in the freezer...