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1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) She is a Belgian Bearded d'Anver, 3 weeks old, feeling thin as not eating much.. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She started off a day ago, limping heavily on one leg, she was obviously...

I have a teeny serama who is 4 weeks old, he is smaller than 3 day old d'Anver chicks. I've been told he is a micro but can't seem to find much info on them? Excuse the mess on the brooder and drinking platform, they only ever look clean for a few minutes.

I recently tried to introduce two young girls to my small flock (young girls were 12 wks old, flock was 20-24 weeks old, cockerel is just under a year old). They'd been in a pen next to the main flock for several weeks, then in a cordoned off area of the flocks run for a few days. When I opened...

I got up today to find blood poos all over the brooder and one chick looking hunched. They nearly all are pooping blood. They are just 2 and a half weeks old, have never been outdoors (I hatched them here) and are in a brooder in my kitchen. I've never cocci with any of my other chicks and I...

I had to help a chick out of its shell as the inner membrane was so sticky it couldn't turn to zip. It had pipped and then a day and a half later it still hadn't got any further than pipping the shell. Its now been out of the shell for 3 days (I helped it out Wedsnesday evening and now its...

I have a hen who I got a month ago to go with my lone boy. For the first week she was fine, then she started withdrawing into herself and stopped being interested in food and water and just perched in the doorway to the coop all day. I started pushing her out into the run, where she'd peck and...

Hi, I candled this egg at lunchtime on day 22, preparing to open it and see what went wrong - as the other 5 eggs didn't make it to day 18 even, and discovered that it was alive and had internally pipped (I could see it moving in the air space and see the irregular bit where it had broken...

Hi, I am looking for some Belgian Barbu D'anver eggs for hatching in various colours in the UK, preferably available now or in the next 6 days. The colours I am looking for are: Quail Splash Buff Mottled Lavender Mottled Red Quail Porcelain Buff Birchen Blue Dun and any other colours that I may...

I was told that my cockerel's feathers are going yellow because he eats corn, is this possible? He's been on corn etc ever since he stopped having chick crumb but he's only been going yellow in the last 2 or 3 weeks. I was thinking it was due to using sand as his dust bath which I only set up...

Is this even possible? I've been able to see development normally from day 4 with all my other batches and dud eggs have candled clear, but today is day 7 with these eggs and all I can see is the egg yolk and air sac. Is there any chance at all that these will develop, as the air sacs are...

I want to make my bantam runs more interesting for my birds, what bushes and plants can I plant in the runs that are safe, won't be eaten in seconds, and won't grow too big?

Apparently a dark, laced bird with black tail feathers and black feet is a porcelain if you are from Turkey. Is this right? I can't find any birds called porcelain with these markings or colour, but am being told to do my research by some guy who insists his bird is a porcelain and that he's...

Just a query, has anybody owned or currently owns a Brio brooder. The temperature range goes up to 41 degrees but I can't get mine to reach higher than 34 degrees. I was hoping to use it to incubate eggs, does anyone know how to get the temperature up? Any ideas even would help. It is a plastic...

Today we had a lovely sunny day and my young roos suddenly started going crazy pulling each others feathers and mounting the pullet. I had to shut one roo in the coop and felt so sorry for the pullet being pulled around by her neck while the biggest roo tried to mount her. She squawked...

This is my mini coop, it really only holds 3 bantams but if I take out the central divider inside, add some nest boxes and make the perch bigger I reckon it'll fit 5-6 small bantams. My brother in law built me this 5 or 6 years ago now, knowing nothing about chickens and I think he did a nice...

My 11 week dutch chicks have been outside a while now, but only in a proper coop and run for a week. Today is driving rain and pretty windy. Every night I gather them up and shut them in the coop and every morning when I open the door, they burst out into the run and start furiously scratching...

There's one I've seen that says it can used for incubating eggs too. It has an adjustable temp dial and is an enclosed plastic tank thing with air vents? Could it work? Need to know asap.

My little chamois Sebright pullet is called Dainty and I can't think of a name for the Sebright roo. I want it to begin with D but can't think of any. He's currently known as Big Chick as he's twice her size. My other older pullet (lavender Dutch) who is going to be going with them eventually...

I have a group of nearly 10 week olds outside, unfortunately 2 of them are roos and need rehoming. This will leave a lone hen. Inside I have a group that are almost 6 weeks and need to go out soon, this is also a group of 2 roos and a hen. When I rehome the 2 roos outside, will I be able to...

I think its a roo, but not sure as I only have the one of these and so have nothing to compare him to. I don't know how slowly these guys develop, he is 4 weeks old.