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This is still the first year with my girls, so I'm still learning. My 2 JBG have these bald spots. I do not see any signs at all of mites, and everyone else seems to be fine. I was thinking the one that is balding on her head (it looks redder in the picture than it does in person. it's not raw...

I may have gotten a black andalusian in my latest batch of chicks (they were all supposed to be black stars). Though it's still really too early to worry about it, I am doing as much research on the breed as possible. However, I can't seem to find any of the info I want! I found that they lay...

This is our second year with chickens, so of course we had to get more! Unfortunately, the place we got them last year is no longer with us, so I had to go to their competitor. They had Black Star and Black Andalusians (yes, black, not blue - this is what they told me. Said they ordered blue but...

This is my first chicken rodeo, so I needed a little advice on food. I read on here somewhere that you start feeding them layer feed only after they start laying, because if you feed it before the calcium can screw up their systems? I have 4 Red Stars, 3 wyandotte, and 2 BJGs. The reds...

They are now 13ish weeks. They keep changing so much, it's hard to figure out who is who with they wyandotte and JBGs. We used to tell the JBGs apart because sheriff had one white feather on either wing. They are gone now. And they like to take turns on which one is bigger, so it's hard to tell...

I come here too frequently, hoping one of these weeks they will not be "too young to tell" LOL I'm so paranoid that I'll get roos because we can't keep them in my town if we do. I tried to get as many pics as possible. Somehow, I only managed to end up with one of Charlie, but I think you can...

I just got my chicks out in the coop a few days ago. It was full of nice fluffy wood shavings. but after night 2, we had a huge flood in our backyard and I had to shovel it out - as there was 3 inches of standing water in the coop. Don't worry, all chicks were saved and spent a night in the...

One of my chicks (about 6 weeks old)seems to constantly rub her beak against things, as if she has an itch. None of the others do it, and there are no other symptoms of colds or mites or anything that I can tell. Could it just be a nervous tick? Or is there something I am not thinking of?

I know my coop is Fort Knox. I'm just having that initial feeling of your children sleeping away from home for the first time lol It's actually a fairly cool night tonight, so that has me worried further, as they are still kinda young. My logical side says everything will be fine, but my overly...

I have an audio file of one of my chicks making a funny noise, but I can't figure out how to upload it from my phone. They are only between 5 and 6 weeks old, and I know they don't usually crow til a minimum of 10 weeks. But the rest are still chirping while the one is doing more of a squawk. Is...

I have 2 Wyandottes. Both are about 4.5 weeks. I've included a pic of them side by side - which I might add was nearly impossible to get lol - as well as one of each. Meg is on the right, Ellen is on the left. Just in the past couple days I noticed Meg's comb getting darker than Ellen's. The way...

I brought the chicks out the other day for a day in the sun. They are 4ish weeks. They were walking around fine, and then all of a sudden a couple would just collapse onto their side and spread out one wing. I wasn't sure if this was normal... did they see one of our shadows and think it was a...

This is nugget now... I posted a pic of his "deformed wings" before and everyone said it was fine. He seems to be slowly growing in his wing feathers, but now he's almost completely bald everywhere else. I know they can get scraggly looking, as one of them has lost all its neck scruff (we now...

I was just curious as to how everyone chose their names for their chickens. And did you have to change the names when you found out some were not girls? I'm a little obsessed and named all of mine after characters from a show I watch. I'm hoping if I get any boys that it will be the ones with...

I am super new to chickens. We picked up 9 chicks at the local feed store on Sunday (June 11th). They had been in store about 2 weeks, so I'm assuming they are about 3 weeks old. One I picked out seemed to be the obvious runt of the batch. They said they were Golden Wyandottes. I'm curious about...

So I am completely new to chickens. We got ours at the local feed store on Sunday (June 11th). They had received them 2 weeks prior, so I am guessing they are about 3 weeks old now. I know it's still a bit young to determine sex, especially since this one doesn't seem to have much in the way of...