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could this be scaly let mites? i count just be paranoid, but i don’t remember her feet always looking like this. how to i get rid of the mites if that is what it is?

i’ve been interested in growing my own things to make nesting herbs for my girls, but does anyone have any advice on what flowers that i should grow for that? i’m in the process of making my list of things to grow next year, so nows the perfect time to figure it out. i know that marigolds (and...

please ease my worries and tell me that this is a pullet 😭 azure blue, will be 9 weeks old on wednesday. i ordered sexed day old pullets a couple months back, but this one has such a red face. i only have the one azure blue so i don’t have any others to compare it to. he/she is my favourite out...

can anyone confirm if this silkie is a pullet? i really wanna buy her but i’m not good at this whole sexing thing.

at what age can i start to integrate my new pullets into my flock? they turn 6 weeks in a couple days. i know that they are too small, but i’m hoping that i’ll be able to move them into the big coop before the winter comes, which is still a good two months away yet but still. they have a large...

the last couple months have been a struggle for my poor little roo, the girls are taking their sweet time with accepting him. but lately he seems to actually be a part of the flock instead of an outsider, and sleeping with his ladies on the roost (usually smushed against the wall, next to my top...

what could cause this? is it something i’ve done wrong? the other girls seem to be okay, and only other one seems to have kinda dry feet, but not like this one. is there anything i can do to help it or stop it? it’s not my first time raising chicks, but i’ve never seen them have feet like this

i bought pullets (all sex linked breeds) and i was looking up the markings n such that barred rock pullets have, and does this look right? i’d be pretty disappointed if i bought pullets but got a cockerel. the whole point of buying pullets was so that i didn’t have to go through the heartache of...

finally got my new babies and i’m sooooo happy! picked them up today. barred rock, azure blue, columbian rock and two red sex links. not my ideal breeds, but i’m still so happy with them. the azure blue seems to be a cuddly baby already, and i only just got them! oh how i’ve missed chick...

anyone have any idea why my top hen hasn’t laid in literally 2 (maybe three) weeks? she was an almost daily layer up until then, and now nothing. i’ve looked everywhere in the coop and run to see if she has a secret nest somewhere, but nothing. she’s also healthy- her comb is nice and red, she...

somebody enjoyed the rain a little too much today. thankfully it isnt too cold out and they are in the coop now, but i look this picture and i’m laughing. ma’am, i think you’re a little damp

the last couple days, my roo has been absolutely obsessed with the nest box. the first thing he does when i let him in with the girls (they are still separate because the girls are still getting used to him) is run right towards the boxes and kicks around all the bedding, and today i caught him...

i knew this day would come, but now that it’s here i have no idea what to do. my boys (robbie and ronnie) grew up together. i got them in september when they were day old chicks and i, not surprisingly, got two roosters out of the two chicks i bought. they were fine yesterday- some fighting as...

it only happens with one of my girls (she’s on the bottom of the pecking order) but my top hen literally won’t leave her alone. i have to bring her in today because the poor little lady couldn’t even get down off the roost without gobble guts (top hen) pecking at her vent. she couldn’t even get...

well, yesterday we had our biggest snowstorm yet this winter and the girls clearly aren’t too happy about the damage done (neither am i, i’m quite grumpy) but this is what happens when you repurpose old planks and wood instead of buying new, in better condition stuff i guess. a couple of the...

my 16 week old mixed silkie cockerels have so many pin feathers on their necks, they look like actual porcupines! is it just them growing in their long adult feathers? one of my boys has waaaaaay more than his brother. im just wondering about what causes this and how long it takes them to go...

i went out to check on the girls this morning- collect eggs, remove ice from water and refill it, and all of that. and i looked at their feeder and there’s random dried blood on it? that led me to check on each of my girls, and everyone seems completely fine. all three laid their eggs this...

anyone else’s cat completely obsessed with the christmas tree? this is my cats second christmas- last year she was tiny and still a kitten. but this year she almost knocks the tree over! can’t keep it fluffed up all nice or anything because she climbs all over it and uses it as her own personal...

i don’t have access to a farm store of any kind (the closest is probably like 4/5 hours away) and i find that oyster shell is just soooo expensive on amazon? i know that it’s necessary, but yeah. i’ve been saving up leftover eggshell from my girls eggs and i’ve been wanting to give it to them...

to start this off, i’m gonna say that i have two 14 week old silkie cockerels, who are kept in a 6x4 enclosure in one of my sheds which is just temporary for the winter, i’m going to be building them a coop outside in the spring. anyways- today i was cleaning out their “coop” and had them in a...