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I've noticed for a couple months that my 3 yr old Brahma rooster has a rattling, wheezy sound coming from his chest. It's like he has to cough. He looks healthy otherwise. My broody hen laid on a large clutch of eggs that he'd fertilized this past month and only one of them hatched. Today I...

My Silkie went broody and I let her sit on some fertilized eggs from my Isa Brown and my Easter Eggers. She’s the only bantam in my flock. We’ve got one chick so far. Day 22 ( I think) I’m worried because of the Silkie’s size she won’t be able to keep the big chickens out of the nesting...

I have a sweet black Silkie hen who just started laying within the last month. There are no other small hens in our flock, we lost our other Silkie to a predator. She’s a bit lonely and I also don’t have a Silkie rooster. She would love to hatch her little eggs and keeps attempting to get broody...

I have a sweet black Silkie hen who just started laying within the last month. There are no other small hens in our flock, we lost our other Silkie to a predator. She’s a bit lonely and I also don’t have a Silkie rooster. She would love to hatch her little eggs and keeps attempting to get broody...

We've got a beautiful healthy 8 mo old blue American Bresse that is looking for a new flock. Fertile, lovely crow, protective but not suitable for farms with small children. Good conformation, no sprigs, straight, balanced comb, straight toes, wide body, no split wing. Would be a great addition...

We are still new to this so be kind. We have a mixed flock with a beautiful black Astrolorpe hen, a silver laced Wyandotte hen, an Isa Brown and 4 Easter Eggers. We also have a silver Bresse rooster. Our Astrolorpe turned broody earlier this week. Luckily she is so sweet that she is okay...

There’s a lot of red going on here about the face. But we’ve never had this breed before so I don’t know what to look for. Future roosters? They are 3 months old. Thanks

We have a mating pair of Welsh Harlequin ducks and their 6 week old duckling in need of a new home. We had aspirations of adding ducks to our flock of free ranging hens. However, it turns out I’m intolerant to duck eggs and I can’t find anyone locally that wants to buy the eggs either...

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Our sole survivor from our Welsh Harlequin ducks. It’s a girl! I’ve never raised a duck before so any advice appreciated. We have 2 sweet two week old Silkies. Is it ok for them to share a brooder after this little one recovers?

I find the variation in egg size so wild! I thought duck eggs were supposedly bigger. But we’ve got an Isa Brown laying jumbo eggs. Wyandotte on the left, Isa Brown in the middle and Harlequin duck on the right.

We have a breeding pair of Harlequin ducks and we are incubating some hopefully fertile eggs in the hopes of adding to our duck family. Our female is young and not at all broody, I’ve never seen her even near her eggs. So how and when do you introduce ducklings? I’ve been reading Storey’s...

We have a pair of young harlequin ducks. We’ve had them for a couple months. They have a little house and a fenced yard to hang out in. We also have a small ankle to knee deep stream running in the back of our property. We let them go for a swim once a day for a couple hours and then we corral...

Can you spot her? Her pose cracked me up.

My husband thought he took note of which breeds he got but this one chicken doesn’t look like any of the others or the breeds he thought he picked. She’s 5 months old. Welcome ideas! Thank you!!

Hi there! We moved to just outside Asheville last fall and got our first chicks this past spring. We’ve built a deluxe coop for our 8 chickens. My husband picked them out and unfortunately his memory and his poor note taking means were not quite sure which breeds we have. I’ve done a little...