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Does this little gal's legs/feet look ok to you? They seem different somehow but I'm not sure.

It's been forever since I've posted because things have been going so smoothly for years! Now though I have a delimma. I'm on day 25 of incubating chick eggs. I started with 17 eggs. Six hatched on day 22. On day 23, I float tested and only six eggs were still "viable". I tossed the bad eggs...

I've integrated 5 different flocks in my lifetime and this last one is the worst yet! I'm not even sure what to do. I've hit youtube and read everything on here, but my issue remains. 4 - 2 year old Bovans 3 - 18 week old Easter Eggers The Easter Eggers live in a run beside the run the...

We are signing to sell our house on July 27th. At that time, our new house will begin being built. It'll take 5-6 months. I need someone to watch my chickens while we are in a rental/appartment. We will supply the coop and run and all of the food. We will come feed/water them and keep the...

All of these are exactly 4 months old. They can be either full bred breeds or a "Fun and Funky" mix of two (from MyPetChicken eggs). I'd like to try to narrow down breeds because I have to, sadly, choose a couple to get rid of and I need egg layers. I gave each a number and their name to ID...

This is one of the 'fun and funky' breeds, so I have no idea what mixed breed she is. She's about 6 weeks old and can't walk because of the feathers on her feet. She stumbles around and gets run over by the other 8 chicks. She's way small (they aren't bantams) and isn't doing well. Do I cut...

Somewhere in this lot of 9 chicks are 2 EEs, 2 purebreds, and 5 Fun/Funky mixed breeds. Any ideas? She has way fuzzy feet. I 'think' she's a purebred because she's half of what my naked neck was bred with. This little guy is our oddest. He's practically bald! He has no feathers (was...

I have a question. So before, we've always gotten chicks in batches of 3s. I don't know why, but that's our history. With 3, we've always cuddled, held, and played with them. Now, we have friendly chickens that we hold and cuddle as adults. Fast forward to today. We have 9 chicks that we...

My chicks are from MyPetChicken's Fun and Funky breeds. That means she mixes breeds for unique and fun chickens. That being said, I'm curious about the fact that about half of our chicks have wings that curl out at the end. I haven't seen that. This one even has a little top-knot action...

I'm on day 22 of incubation. 11 eggs were in the incubator and I have 6 chicks that are at or over 24 hours old. My concern is with one egg that's left over. I could never candle this egg because of how thick the shell is. It's a green EE shell and is too thick to see through with even a...

There's my incubator. I had a chick hatch early this morning. The SADDEST thing is he's going around and chirping at an egg and then he cuddles it. Breaks my heart that he's in there alone. To the question... Last night that one chick was chirping from his egg and the egg was moving all...

This is my first ever incubation and today the eggs are 7 days old. I candled them for the first time with newbie eyes. I have one I wanted to get a second opinion on because I don't want to doom a baby chick. I see the embryo. I guess that's why I'm afraid to throw out the egg. However...

We found out what was stealing our eggs right out of the nesting box! Ooooooooh! Disclaimer : We don't actually blame the dog. We blame the kids for leaving the coop open. Also, that's an OLD coop that only house 2 hens at night. They are being integrated into a much larger coop, I swear.

Just taking a stab here. We've had rat issues in the past but I haven't seen one in months. Our smaller chicken coop is empty during the day, but yesterday one of the kids left the doors open. Something got into the coop and removed the 2 fake eggs from the nesting box and the one real egg...

I have a large run that's been divided in half. I had my older 2 hens in one half and my 4 younger Sussex hens in the other (connected to a new coop) so they could get to know each other. It's only been a week. They were divided with chicken wire. The older hens were put into the run each...

That's supposed to be "Integration NOT happening" I have two flocks. My EE and RiR are 8 months old and free range the backyard. I have 4 Sussex (4 months old) than I've just moved into a new coop in the backyard that is attached to a new run. I 'thought' with the Sussex in the run and the...

Thanks for all of your help! I couldn't have done it without all of your help and ideas. I wish I could thank everyone personally for their ideas. I stole SO many ideas for this coop. The run is almost done but isn't ready for pictures yet. This is an 8x8 shed that I built all by myself...

A co-worker has offered me 4 turtle vents for the roof of my 8x8 shed that's turning into a chicken coop. Before I research how to install a turtle vent (or even what a turtle vent is), will that work to ventilate a chicken coop? So I would have two 12"x12" vents on the gables and 4 of these...

This golden sexlink is about 2 months old, the same as the chicken beside it. I know it's comb and waddle are bright red and larger, but it's tail feathers look female to me. What do you think before my friend gets rid of her/him? I looked up comparison hen/roo pictures and it looked more...

I have a 1x6x8 cut in half along with strips of 1x1 that are 6" long. Now... do I glue the strips onto the 1x6 or do I screw them on? I know that may seem like a 'no-brainer', but I'm not sure which I'm supposed to do. Computer tech and all... not good at construction. Seems glue wouldn't...