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Hi, I'm thinking about rescuing some retired egg laying hens from a factory farm, i have room for two currently (and some room to spare). I know how to actually get them but I'm wondering what i do after. how long do i quarantine them for and how far away should they be from the coop? Also how...

My rooster has always been a bit odd to say the least. He didn't come from a very good home and wasn't handled at all until around five or sixish months when he came into my possession so i give him a lot of leeway when it comes to nasy behavior and I've tried to correct it in the kindest way...

I posted a thread about two months ago regarding my chicks genders. Everyone who replied believed that they were all pullets but I'm not so sure. I got my babies back in July, one dark cornish, one polish and one d'uccle. My polish has started sparing with my feet when i get close to her. She...

Hello, I'm wondering if it's safe for me to hatch with a broody hen in winter? I got three little chicks this year, and I've fallen in love with having chicks around. My current little ones are getting HUGE, my dark cornish Ginger is almost the size of my smallest hen it's crazy, i wanted to...

My hen Rosie, who has always been a bit of an odd ball, has been sleeping in the nest boxes for two weeks now. She likes to sleep in the one closest to the door and that's where my girls lay all of their eggs. Normally i wouldn't mind, she used to sleep in the nest box farthest from the door...

My rooster has these two little white bumps on his comb, they've been there for at least three weeks, i thought it was possibly fowl pox originally because of their ashy appearance but no other bumps appeared on his comp or wattles or anywhere else i can see. so I'm thinking it's some sort of...

My rooster has had problems since i got back from vacation. His face gets pale randomly (like he's not getting enough oxygen) and he has a runny nose, i was going to treat for a respiratory infection but today i picked him up since i noticed him laying down and noticed some yellow bumps in the...

I know easter eggers are often sold as ameraucanas, Daisy and Rosie were believed to be ameraucanas by their previous owner (i got my birds when she moved and couldn't keep them anymore), she also had two easter eggers. I know she got her birds from good breeders, she did a lot of research to...

My rooster has been like this since i got back from a two week vacation six days ago. He has two small white bumps on his comb, i will get pictures soon, i don't want to stress him out. When i saw them i thought of fowl pox, but he hasn't developed any more since i noticed the first two though...

I feel really silly posting this, i don't like things about my personal life floating around on the internet raw exposed and unprotected but i don't know what else to do. My best friend has depression and anxiety and i have anxiety (what kind of a pair are we). I don't know if i can handle it...

I just got back from vacation this year two nights ago, I've been getting caught up with my flock since, i spent the day observing them yesterday. Yesterday morning i noticed that Rooster had some crust around his nostrils, i wiped it off and looked him over and otherwise he was fine. This...

I'm worried my chick Darla will be bullied once she's integrated with my adult flock. She's a white black crested polish, I didn't want a polish I didn't think it would be super safe to add one into my flock, but my mom is the one who put in the order and by the time I realized and asked her to...

My chicks are almost eight weeks old and I'm starting to get that sinking feeling that two of them are cockerels. This would really suck ad i only have three chicks so i would be adding one lone bird to my existing flock since i already have a Roo (unless it's possible to keep two roos with five...

So I'm not one hundred percent sure i can see worms but maybe. So i had my seven week old chick Darla out sitting on my arm and she pooped on me. I put her down and went to wash my arm off but saw some dark brown slug like things in her poo. It was almost dark out so i can't really be one...

I have some questions here, i hope it doesn't seem like i haven't read about chicken feeding and nutrition at all here i have a tendency to sound completely uneducated and i apologize. So i have a hanging feeder full of feed out in the run every day, it's always kept full for simplicity. I let...

Hello, so Rosie, my half Ameraucana (no idea about her father's breed) rarely lays eggs, she'll lay once every two months or so but that can be very inconsistent. I don't know why, I've wondered if the respiratory infection she had when i first got her knocked out her reproductive system but now...

My chicks live outside in a coop and run next to my main coop and run. Every morning after the adult hens have laid their eggs i go out and put the chicks in the large run to explore, for a few hours i sit out there on a small stool and the chicks always like to jump onto my lap and roost on my...

I already started a thread like this about two weeks ago and i got a lot of great responses, but this one is purely about my rooster. He attacked one of the chicks earlier, i let him get close because he's usually a really tame boy, but as soon as he could he grabbed Debra my porcelain d'uccle...

This is just a question made out of curiosity, I've noticed that my rooster holds his wings so the tips sit under his tail. All of my hens hold their wings tight against their backs. I also have three chicks, two of my chicks hold their wings like my rooster and the one holds her wings like my...

I have a three year old easter egger hen named Freya who has had diarrhea for about six months now. I've wormed the whole flock twice so i don't think it's parasites. I'll see the occasional solid poo and then a moment later her poo is liquid again, it just looks like chicken poop but with extra...