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We have 1 adult duck and 2 adult drakes. 9 weeks ago a broody chicken hatched out 2 more (female) ducks. They are already just as big as the adults! Right now we have the 3 ducks together and 2 drakes separated but I would really like to combine the two groups! The drakes are pretty aggressive...

Our sickie is a black copper Marans about 1 year old. She looks completely healthy, lots of shiny feathers, red comb. I never would have suspected anything wrong with her. Yesterday my husband went to collect eggs and found 3 chickens in one (large) nest box. 2 of them were pecking this girl's...

I have 23 chickens. 9 are from last year and 15 were hatched early May this year. When the chicks were 3 weeks we put them in a run next to the older girls. At 6 weeks we let them run together during the day and separated them at night. At 8 weeks they were together full time. We fed them grower...

These babies are 6 weeks old. The first baby is a Welsummer (I think). We've had problems with it picking and eating feathers. It's been suggested that maybe it's a boy because of this behavior. I am fairly certain this next baby is an EE (I had a hard time telling the EE's and Welsummers...

5 weeks ago we got 3 Khaki Campbell's from Jax (from a hatchery). We LOVE these ducklings! They are awesome! 2 are the khaki color (one crested) but one is grey. Now that it's getting feathers, it has a khaki patch on it's chest, but otherwise the feathers are grey, too! How is a khaki Campbell...

I saw this chicken at a pumpkin patch farm this week and would LOVE to add one like it to my backyard flock. Can anyone ID this bird for me??

I have 10 chicken. 9 pullets, 1 rooster. Every night for the last 4 nights I've found the rooster sitting on the top of the coop! They've been in this coop for 8 weeks, they all get along really well, no fighting. I just have to move this rooster indoors every night! Is this a rooster thing and...

This is Baby. Baby will be 10 weeks old on Wednesday. Hubby and I disagree on whether Baby is a boy or girl. He thinks boy because of the red comb. I think girl because Baby is the runt, smaller than the rest and still is not completely feathered out! Also there is absolutely no sign of wattles...

This baby developed a red comb in just the last 2-3 days! It's a Black Australorp and will be 5 weeks old on Wednesday. Do you think it's a roo or is it still too early to tell? Here's the baby in question (on the right) with other babies of the same age and breed that shipped along...

Heidi is an 8-10 month old Red Star. Generally very friendly and happy-go-lucky. She laid an egg yesterday afternoon. This morning when I opened the coop the other girls came running out like usual and she just hung around on the roost. She finally made her way out, took a few steps and stopped...

One of my girls just started laying this week. She pecked a hole her first egg but didn't break the membrane and didn't eat it, just left it there and walked away. Today she literally staked out one of my other layers, wouldn't even come for treats! As soon as the other girl laid, she went in...

Funniest thing.....my red star started laying first, a month ago. She is a machine and lays EVERY day! Wow! But she refuses to use the nest box and lays under the roost. Ugh! I clean under the roost every day so she has a nice clean place to lay. I figure at least she's laying in the coop! Well...

This chickie is 10 1/2 weeks old (or so I was told, the seller was incorrect about the ages of the others she sold me and also sold this one as an Americauna so the age may not be correct). I have had Pumpkin for 2 weeks and she's been feathered the entire time. She does still peep. I would...

I have been lurking here at least 2 months, trying to learn everything I could about having chickens in our back yard. Now we have them! Well, we have 3. Their temporary coop is a wire dog kennel covered by a tarp and their run is a dog run that our (spoiled) dog refuses to use. We will need to...