First time using the incubator to hatch, previously used a broody hen to do the hard work!
This chick pipped last night at around 6pm, it is now 9am the next day. The hole is on the opposite end as the air cell on the side. Before I went to bed I had taken off a small piece of the membrane that...
Went out to let the chickens out of the coop this morning and noticed the rooster was missing. I investigated and there was a little puddle of blood and a few feathers on the ramp outside the back door that goes into their run, which must not have been properly secured by my husband as it was...
I got a batch of easter egger chicks. As they've grown up, this one looks different from the rest. It is probably half the size and has a different looking face. It gets plenty of food and doesn't appear to have any health problems. If it is a different breed, any idea what it could be? If you...
They originally looked like hens to me but I'm starting to think they are cockerels. They've recently started crowing as well, however they started 2 months after the other cockerels of the same age and not until right after the other cockerels were slaughtered. I'm really confused, any help is...
One of our hens has a pretty nasty looking wound and I'm wondering how I should be caring for it. This is our first year having chickens so we may have made mistakes. I attached a photo for reference. We have 6 hens and 1 rooster. They are 7 months old. We weren't told the breed when we got them...