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well the topic says most of it this chick was fine when I got to work and when I got home we noticed that one of the chicks she brought to the kids day care now has a leg that is turned way out almost backwards. Any Ideas? what should I do?

So I had a broody sitting on her eggs for 25 days before she got one to hatch and that was on Wednesday and the chick is now 3 day old and hanging out under mom and all is well. I also have four 5/6 day old chicks that I got from a friend on Sunday and I was going to slip them under her then but...

Okay I feel like the worst chicken keeper ever but I'm not sure how she died. So yesterday my chickens were free ranging and a couple got into my neighbors field behind our place, no biggie I just went an chased them back. When i got them back I noticed a few drops of blood outside my coop and...

Okay I'm not sure if it would work well or how humane it would but does anyone ever drown their chickens instead of cutting their throat? We culled or first rooster a few weeks back and it went okay for our first time except he got away from me when I was bleeding him out so I caught him and got...

Okay so I have a broody hen sitting on some eggs rite now but she is only about ten months old and this is her first time going broody so I was worried that she might get off her eggs half way through. So just in case I decided to make a incubator out of an old cooler and a bunch of stuff I...

Okay i have a hen who is broody and I currently have her sitting on a few fake eggs but i am thinking I would like to try to see if she could hatch some chicks. I have one rooster and eleven hens and I was reading on this site and they say Quote: How do you know for sure though? I don't...

Okay so yesterday I started my big spring clean out of my coop and since this is still my first year of keeping chickens there is always something new and exciting to experience and learn about. So I did the deep litter (I think) by just adding more and more pine shavings to the floor of my coop...

I just got a bunch of new pullets and a cockerel on Saturday and I had all of the new girls and the roo in one half of my coop together for the last 3 1/2 days. Today when I got home from work I decided to take down the the divider and let them start to get to know each other and establish the...

I have these two buff brahmas and I think one might be a cockrel Im not sure cause Im new to this but here are the two of them any ideas? I think they about 18 or 19 weeks but Im not sure

I got this chicken from a neighbor it was being picked on by a mean rooster and she had a whole section of feathers on her back missing the feathers are coming back now but I am wondering what type of chicken she might be, any ideas?

wondering what type of breed this might be sorry for the poor pic quality it was taken with my phone

So we moved to a new property about a month ago and out in the back there was an old coop that had not been used in about twenty years. I asked the landlord if I could get chickens and she said I could do what ever I wanted with it so my chicken adventure began. Here is a a few pics of it when...

Hi there My name is Kevin and I live in tarrys b.c. Canada. my family and I just moved to home that has an old coop that has not been used in almost twenty years. Our landlord told us that if we wanted to use the coop for chickens to go for it so it became my new project. The coop is about...