Hi all. One of my Orpington hens, Biscuit, seems to be exhibiting symptoms of what looks to me like an impacted crop. She is rotating her neck in a circular motion, and her crop is absolutely massive and very firm. She and the other flock members do not regularly eat grass (they have a big run...
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I let my broody hatch a few chicks, and they are now a little over one month old. One is a Blue Andalusian, the other is Silver Phoenix. I am hoping for two hens...
Opinions on gender?
I need some help IDing this little chick!
Yesterday, 2/4 eggs hatched under my broody hen. I originally got the eggs from an exhibitor at a local fairground. He had marked the shells with these breeds:
-Silver Spangled Hamburg
-Silver Leghorn
-Lakenvelder
-Silver Phoenix
Out of the two that...
Hi all! Last night I went to a local fair...and I ended up coming home with 6 free eggs.
At the poultry exhibition, there were many exhibitors selling fair-hatched chicks, young hens, etc. There was also a table covered in fertilized eggs that had been exhibited over the week. One of my Buff...
Pumpkin, my Buff Orpington, has started picking out and eating the feathers of my two Dark Brahmas. I only noticed this behavior actively about a week ago—she had always shown some interest in pecking at their foot feathers, but I had never seen her actually pulling out feathers and eating them...
Over the summer, we had an attack in our coop by a couple of raccoons. They killed two Barred Rocks first in the early spring, and while I was on vacation for two weeks with someone caring for my hens, the raccoons killed three White Leghorns, my EE hen and her best friend the barnyard mix, and...
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I have been the caretaker of several lovely hens and a roo for a little over two years now. We have raised two batches of chickens and a total of 15 in all. Currently, we have five hens and the rooster after some raccoon attacks a few weeks ago. I have raised Easter Eggers, Barred...