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just yesterday i lost my favorite rooster, he was an oegb who used to fly into a tree in my back yard, he was my only roo who was quite enough that my neighbors didn't mined him and the hens were starting to except him but not his lady that came with him since she is to small to leave alone with...

just went out to candle my broody eggs after 22 days and not even a pep...... and found out all of those supposed fertile eggs i bought from the local feed store are duds DUDS!!!!!! so should i just by some day old chicks and put them under the broody and if so whats the best way to go about that??

one of my barred rocks became broody about 6 days ago and and i wanted to know would she be able to hatch any eggs i put under her 4 days into this behaver or would she give up before their done incubating?

i have this broiler and shes half the size of all of her sisters but still larger then an average chicken (she stays with with my layers to keep from being crushed by the other broilers whenever they "run" over to the feeder) im afraid that she might get a heart attack from being so large is...

my top hens been acting weird shes been fighting way more causing other hens to squat when ever she attacks them and if i even walk by her and my other hens start squatting this all happened after moving them to a new coop a few days ago? i also removed their roo about a week or so ago but this...

my about 10 week old roo has started to mate his hens (if can even call them that at this age) dose this also mean he will start crowing soon....

i'm going to be reducing a flock of about 15 down to 4 by culling nine of them tonight and in ten days culling 15 broilers wish me luck.

order this chick from Mcmurray as an exotic chick and a few weeks ago i was told that this was a black sex link because of the browning on its wing and its over all dark coloration from a fellow BYCer but as it grew its comb its comb started to become rather large and red (bigger then my...

would a cross between a dark Cornish and a turken be a good idea for meat I've been thinking of getting some of both of these breeds down the line and thought experimenting with the mix would be interesting. (edit) also if anyone has any pics of this mix posting it would be much appreciated

I'm going to stop raising chickens for a while i just don't feel the satisfaction of raising them anymore, because of all this opposition I'm getting from my neighbors ,my friends ,and my family. i guess i should get back to my school work......

i was sent this free "Exotic" chick from mcmurry and have no idea what breed it is. so far i know its not a australorp, jersy giant, any bantam, not a rock, black star, and a whole crap loud of other bird but im prity sure its a rooster what do you think he is?? those brown wing feathers are...

one of my chicks has a sour crop and i dont know how to massage it right. Do i just rub it or try to press it; will that hurt her? this is a pic of her shes in a bathtub

to lose 4-8 chicks within a few hours? their all about 2 or 3 days old and it was extremal cold and wind when i picked them up from the post office. they all seem to be doing fine but 4 refuse to wake up but don't seem nearly as bad as the 4 that already died.

doesn't it feel like there should be a like button on this site? so lets say your on the emergency page and your reading through the post and see one that needs action now but you don't have the expertise for it so you like it so it becomes more noticeable for someone who dose ;or if you see a...

i don't know if this is where this should be posted but here i go anyway i'm trying to order some chicks from McMurray and cant seem to get it to work out can anyone with experience with ordering chicks give me some pointers? (this would be my first time ordering chicks)

a bunch of neighbors have been asking me if they could have some of my chickens to eat and would be willing to pay so i say whats the harm of that extra money to put into my egg flock i would like to know whats your favorite type of meaty and why? (grammar)

OK i want to make a bater to hatch a few eggs from my late rooster Charlie (an ee) we've eaten all his bros and soon him but i don't want to end a lineage of beautiful rooster. is their anything i need to know when i make a bater to hatch chicks this is where every thing gets weird.... my...

i have an 11 week old chick who has these swollen eyes i first thought that it was just a bee sting but for how long it lasted i'm thinking it's something else non of the other chicks have it, there isn't any discharge coming from the eye, shes extremely active but will fall asleep randomly...

i have a light Brahma about 6ish weeks old he has been drinking, not relay eating, hes been lethargic, there isn't any smell coming off of him, and I saw some stringy poo which had a reddish tint to it. one of my other chicks was also lethargic earlier today but quickly revived could this just...

I have 10 6week old chicks and i want to Introduce them to my hen who recently became crippled (her beak was broken) and cant do much damage when peck at them. the chicks have already meet her but through a cage and they would only be with the hen during the day. also i cant put her with the...