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We had a broody Easter Egger in May and gave her 8 eggs from our mixed flock. Our rooster is a Black Jersey Giant and she was able to hatch 4 chicks the first week of June. They are really cute, mostly black, and have grown fast. At 4 weeks old, one of the chicks is already getting a red comb...

So we got this chick from Tractor Supply in May and named her Naomi. I'm pretty sure it's a he because he's crowing already at 10 weeks and he's very red faced compared to the others we bought at the same time. We originally thought he was a Blue Old English bantam, but I really don't think so...

One of our Easter Egger hens decided to sit on eggs, so we obliged and gave her 6 eggs to hatch. Four of the 6 hatched on June 5, so the chicks are now a little over 3 weeks old - not fully feathered. She was a good mama, protecting them, catching bugs and food for them, etc. Then on Sunday...

Any guesses what breed these bantams might be? I included their 3 week old pictures, as well as their new chick pictures. Old English maybe? Chest is coming in a light brown... A Cochin - maybe black or mottled? White silkie? At first we thought she was a black japanese...

On Saturday, we picked out 6 straight run bantams with the hope of getting 6 girls. We intentially picked 6 that look different from each other, so we have no idea what kind we picked. My daughter did some "homework" yesterday and thinks this is what we picked. I'd love to get your opinions...

I have a backyard flock of 5 hens, 5 4 month old pullets and a rooster. Last night while checking on the chickens, I noticed poop with small, rice-size worms in it. I'm certain it came from the pullets, but I'm not sure which ones. The flock sleep together in the coop and are in a pen...

I have 3 hens with lice. Last week I treated all my chickens and the coop with permethrin dust. Checking the girls today, everyone looks much happier and I don't see any live bugs, but they still have the eggs on their feather shafts around their vent area. All the articles I've read talk...

This is Shelby, our only remaining Easter Egger. We got her as a day old chick the first week of May, so she is about 16 weeks old. She was all brown as a chick with a cute little beard. Then when her feathers started coming in, she turned black and white. Now I see some "brownish" pointy...

I have a hen that recently went through a molt. She started laying again about 2 weeks ago, but her eggs are pretty small - like pullet size. Is that normal?

We have a black rat snake that keeps visiting our coop every couple of days. I find him in the nest box with an egg or two. I'm pretty sure its the same one that killed 2 of my chicks a month ago. We have caught it multiple times and take it away - each time farther away, but it keeps coming...

We have an established flock of 6 chickens that includes a Jersey Giant roo and 5 hens. We added 4 chicks on April 4 (making them almost 4 months old) and they were raised by one of the hens that went broody, so they have been with the flock the whole time. It turns out that one is a cockeral...

I have a buff orpington hen that's about a year old. She lost the feathers on her back about 3 months ago (end of March) and I assumed it was because she was our rooster's favorite girl. We have since gotten rid of him because he really wasn't very nice, but her feathers are not growing back...

We found this pile of "worms" on our sidewalk this morning. It's was a under an oak tree and we would love to know what they are! My husband wondered if our dog threw them up, but I don't think so...They were moving as a mass off the sidewalk towards the grass... Is this something to...

I've got a broody hen that I tried to trick into taking some day old chicks. It didn't work. So, I've been raising them in a box with a heat lamp. They are close to 4 weeks old. Well, on Sunday morning we noticed that one chick was just gone. They had been in a rabbit cage that they...

I have a broody mama (Sally) that happily adopted 4 chicks we put under her about 4 weeks ago. Her sister (Maisy) has been broody for 2 1/2 weeks and we excitedly bought 4 more chicks yesterday to put under the sister. Well, Maisy has rejected them two nights in a row. None of the chicks were...

Our coop is not real big, so after my broody mama got her babies, I put them a covered rabbit cage with bedding, food and water on the floor of the coop. The mama and her chicks hopped in and out easily enough. Well, now they are about 3 weeks old, and for the past 3 nights, I've noticed tons...

We have a bantam rooster that has been bossed around a lot by our standard rooster - over the past 2 months. So, I've been letting the little rooster out of the pen in the mornings and he spends his day free-ranging. The girls and other rooster join him in our large yard in the afternoons...

We bought a few baby chicks last week - 2 red ones - a Rhode Island Red and a Red Sex Link. Then one died, so I am not sure which one is left. Can you tell?

While driving around the mountains of NC today, our family drove past a "farm" that appears to only have roosters. I've never seen anything like it before and wanted to get your thoughts...These are a couple of pictures I took. Any idea what they are doing and how do they keep the roosters in...

We've got a bantam OEG rooster that is really friendly, but hides faster than the girls when there's a threat. We are also hoping to hatch some chicks some day in the future. We've talked about adding a full size rooster to our small flock and wondered how an introduction could be made that...