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I have two sick hens since yesterday. The first is acting super lethargic. I can’t find anything wrong with her but she is falling asleep all the time and does not appear to be eating. I can’t find anything wrong with her other than a few mites which I’m now treating. Her crop was basically...

Every night 4 or 5 of our bantams huddle together on this board to roost outside. I adjusted the branch I have inside the coop as a roost thinking maybe they didn’t like that it wiggled and that was why they didn’t want to sleep inside. I have moved them in to the coop a couple times to try to...

Let me preface this by saying these are not breeder quality birds- we are still learning and didn’t know any better when we started! My 9 year old has his 4-H poultry show coming up in 10 days. We have 2 australorps that could go but both have issues and we don’t know which one is a bigger deal...

We adopted 4 bantams that needed a home and I’ve identified the breeds and varieties of 3. I’m down to this little guy. He is built like an OEG bantam but I can’t find a picture that goes with his colors and markings. I think he’s about 12 weeks old. I increased the saturation to try to show the...

Bantam chick hatched yesterday and o took it out of the incubator today. It has a red blob since I don’t know the exact term that is getting bigger. I was told it looks like it hatched too early. Is there anything I can do? It is walking around and acting alert but the getting worse part is what...

I have 13 hens and 3 black sex links- all of that variety and no other breeds- have runny poop that gets stuck and builds up in their feathers near the vent. It took me a while to figure out that the runny poop was coming from the same chickens. A few weeks ago when I really noticed it I got...

I bought an Ameraucana pulley at a swap meet and as I was trying to look up what variety she is, I started to wonder if it is really a true Ameraucana. I was told she hatched “in May” so is probably about 4 months old. Any opinions? I don’t know a ton about this breed beyond the egg color...

At what point do you get rid of eggs you were hoping to hatch? Our bantam was sitting on 3 eggs. One was bad at day 10. 1 was kicked out of the nest by another hen last week and we don’t know how long it was out but put it back in just in case. 1 egg I hoped would be fine but it’s day 22 and we...

Our bantam has been sitting on 3 eggs and today is day 10. I candles the eggs and I’m wondering if what I’m seeing is the start of a blood ring. I left it under the hen for now but I wanted to see what you all thought. I figured I could look again in a day or 2.

Some of our pullets started laying about 3 weeks ago. We had started collecting 3 eggs most days, some days 2. One of our bantams who has been laying almost every day went broody so we decided to let her sit on a few. Since then she has obviously stopped laying but we are finding either 1 or 0...

We have 15 4.5 month old chickens we have been feeding layer crumble and just came home from a swap meet with 2 younger pullets. I forgot to ask how old they are but I’m guessing about 2 months old. Is it ok for them to eat later feed or do I need to switch to something else until they are...

We collected our first eggs about 2 weeks ago and know that not all of our pullets are laying yet. Until today they had all used the nesting boxes. Today we’ve found 2 eggs on the floor of the coop under the roost. It looks like they were laid while the girls were perched on the roost bars. Is...

Does anyone know what kind of bantam this is? It’s hard to get s picture of them not being held so these will have to do!

My son noticed that one of our chickens had a cut on her foot. We cleaned with peroxide and applied triple antibiotic ointment. It keeps opening again and when I was looking at it today it appeared that instead of being split on the pad behind the toenail like I thought, that it’s almost like a...

My 8 year old is doing poultry in 4-H and since I didn’t grow up with chickens I’m learning right along side him. We are s couple weeks out from the fair and are trying to decide which barred rock cockerel to exhibit. I know these aren’t “show” birds and we don’t gave a group leader so we would...