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Hey everyone, I live in souther california. Today i got to work(carpenter at a museum) and early this morning ,found a rooster about 9' up on a tree branch. now this is in the middle of Los angeles. not many areas in the heart of LA for chickens let alone roosters. I brought this rooster home...

i walked out into me coop tonight to find one of my favorite french black copper maran roosters,DEAD. all 14 chickens were on the roost except him he was in the out side area of the coop. there were no feathers pulled or cuts or anything. i had checked on them about 2 hours before i found him...

hello, i have a mixed flock of 9 week old chicks.hens and roos and different breeds. all the chicks are from show line and are from really large (huge) roos and hens. i want these chicks to get as big as possable. what is the rite food to feed them? i had them on Kruse grower starter crumble...

hello, i have 12 chicks. hatched all by me. all the chicks are 10 weeks old. out of the 12 different chicks i have 2 light brahma roosters that have been REALLY slow in developing feathers. so slow to the point they have bald spots all over. is this normal or what is wrong. all the other...

hello everyone, i am looking for a rhode island red or production red Roosterl, between 5 weeks and 10 weeks old. im in southern california .Los angeles area

i just picked up this chick. i have many RIR pullets and have been trying to get a RIR roo for them but have been unsucsessful . this one is 5 WEEKS. comb is alot taller then any of the pullets ive had at this age. in the pictures,the long thin feathers growing on the head make the comb look...

Hey everyone, I have uploaded a few pictures of my production reds. I've been looking for a rooster to add to my free ranging flock. seem my luck is for all pullets,ive hatched 20 production reds and these are the only 2 that had shortest tails and more red in the comb and wattles growing...

hey, i have an assorted group of chicks. 11 of them. i have 2 light brahmas and 1 of them has not grown much at all. and is only half the size of the others. all the chicks are 4 weeks old. any ideas?

. i want one rooster from each breed and would like to give away any extras while they are still young and easy to give away. now for the RIR i have 24 of them that ive hatched and seems that they have all developed at the same rate. is it my luck i have all pullets or is this breed harder to...

ok ,im back again with more questions. i have a 5 week old RIR. by the looks of the head(correct me if im wrong) looks like a pullet. question is why is the tail so short? when it was about 2 weeks the other RIR that hatched the same time had a 2 inch tail before this one even started growing...

ok i have 6 barred rocks one maran and 6 RIR and 5 light brahmas. im wondering what sings to look for on the maran to somewhat determan if its a he or she. same thing with the barred rock, i selected this one cause it has no dark coloring on its legs. the main question i wanted to ask...

hey everyone, i have 19 eggs in the bator. got up this morning and all chicks had started to zipp the shell. and one chick was already hatched. problem i have now is,the chick that hatched is going bowling with the rest of the eggs and not half the eggs have the zipped side facing down??? is...

Hello, i have 2 RIR chicks that i hatched exactly 4 weeks ago. one chick is alot lighter then the other and hardley has a tail that has been growing really slow as well as the rest of the feather. it stands alot more erect then the other chick does. those indications had me belive it would be...

hello we have several hens and 4 roosters. we have a RIR,Silkie,Japanese and modern game rooster. the modern game roo is 9 months and the rest of the roos/chickens are 6 months. all are chickens have free ranged from about 8 weeks. any idea why ALL of the chickens and Roosters are afraid of...

i am on day 7 with my 20 eggs. they are all SQ chicks and i bought a few fairly expensive BCM eggs and noticed today,when i went to candle a few that one of the BCM eggs was set in the incubator pointy side up. my light for candling isn't too bright and these eggs are as dark as chocolate so i...

hello i have 20 eggs that are on day 7 rite now. i was told that by the last week or so,the temp will rise from the extra movement with a large amount of eggs that are fully developed. the hova bator only has 1 vent hole and when I'm on lock down, how do i prevent the heat from getting too...

why do i have such a hard time maintaining humidity? i get up in the morning and the hygrometer shows 10% ill add water to a sponge in the bator then it jumps up to 45-50% but drops fairly quickly. so then ill add water to the trays on the bottom but then it stays too high. then when i get...

i set some eggs that i picked up today and noticed that the temp reading on the wire mesh was reading 98-99. when i moved the digital thermometer on top of the egg turner the temp would read 99.8-100 any ides?

just set some SQ barred rocks, copper marans,brahmas and rhode islands.picked them up so hopefully i wont have the issues i had with the shipped eggs.

why are my chicks (4 months old) not consistent where they sleep. and the time they go in? 1. the chicks started free ranging at 2 months. prior to the 2 months they spent their time in the coop that they currently go into at night. why do the chicks wait till it is pretty much dark out...