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we ordered chicks from McMurray back in October. They sent us a bonus one. This girl is super pretty, a bit on the smaller side and very very black. So much so she looks iridescent in the sun! What is she?

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We susally check on our chickens in the am before we go off and do what we need to do. Today however we were leaving early and we did not. We heard our older ones clucking away so we thought all was good. NOT THE CASE. we came home to check on them and our chicks who were about 10 weeks old were...

Does this happen to any one else? I have had two chickens die on me this summer. One day they seem fine the next we find them in the run just flopped over! What the heck?! I know chickens hide disases like no tomorrow. I'm worried about my other girls. We did have our rooster die on us...

Just curious if anyone started with certain breeds and then let their flock go broody and hatch chicks. I realized today after 3 years of chickens that I have very few pure breeds left! They are all mixed as my rooster is mixed from a clutch that was hatched last year. Soon I will have no pure...

Ok, so my hens have been shut in and didn't free range all winter due to our deep snow. I don't free range much as I have hawks and my Dane that likes to treat them like squeak toys:rolleyes: so they are in the run a lot. It's starting to smell now that the thawing is happening. Plus is supper...

We had 3 Roosters. We finally gave the two nasty ones away and kept our awesome one. This lasted about a month! My poor wonderful Rooster Hagar just died yesterday. Right out of the blue, no idea why. Anyway, I got used to having my roos. I also got used to getting sprin chicks without any...

My rooster and hen mated, whom were both mixed to begin with, and resulted in this lovely chicken. I'm not sure whether this is a rooster or hen though! So hard for me to tell. It's kind of important to me right now as his father died today! Not sure why. But anyway, this chicken was...

I'm really baffled here. I have a mixed bag of chickens. I have 4 EEs. The older one stopped laying the end of fall. Not sure why, she's fine, fully feathered and healthy. Now my other 3 have stopped laying! Yet all my other brown laying hens are still going. What the heck is up with the blue...

Why in the world is my hen going broody now?! It's November and cold! Wouldn't the chicks die?

I posted before but didn't have a great shot of this one. I'm leaning towards too but still not quite sure. Can you help me out. What gender?

My good sexlink helped hatch these guys. They we from brown eggs but they look like eeers to me with the ear tufts! They are farmyard specials,lol anyway I'm leaning toward roosters as they will fight each other and their tails seem awfully long to me. They were hatched around June 8th...

I feel like we were not meant to have chickens :( we keep loosing them! We have lost 5 alone since march! 2 to my flipping dog b/c they escaped and I didn't know it. But the others just randomly disappeared into our woods. Probably gotten by a hawk or something of the like as I never find the...

OK so here are some pictures of my chicks who are about 14 weeks old. I'm a bit confused b/c their combs are not very red or very big but some of their tail feathers seem like roo feathers to me as they are SO big! Can any one weigh in? One of my silver laced Wyondottes One of the marons...

Ok, not sure if this is related to my chickens or what. My hard boiled eggs used to come out fine. Now when I got to peel the, they are mushy! The whites just wants to melt in my hands! Not very appealing to me. What the heck is going on? The only thing I've changed is I put the eggs in the...

Or I think I may just go cry in a corner for a long time. I feel like a horrible chick killer already as I helped a chick hatch out on Saturday not realizing you almost never help one hatch, it didn't make the night. Well, today while I was out my husband boiled up some eggs to make egg salad...

Omg, I have a ton of questions for you all! My broody hen actually hatched put chicks! I'm shocked! Seeing as I've only had chickens for a year I now nothing about this. We went out today to feed and water. We noticed that one chick was trying to emerge. We had to leave. When we came back it...

I'm not sure if my hens have mites but I think they may. I thought at first the bare back areas were from my two roosters as it was only two hens as they are the favorites. Now though it seems to be spreading. I checked the one hen I could catch and I could see very very tiny black bugs on her...

I'm beside myself right now. We tried to introduces the new chicks last night. They have been penned up during the day right next to the chickens run so they can see each other. They get largely ignored all day. So I decided to introduce them last night. We put them all in at night(around 10pm)...

I have 7 hens that are a year old and 2 roosters. I currently have 9 chicks that are about 6-8 weeks old. I have started putting the chicks out during the day next to the hens current run. When can I start integrating them full time? How do I go about doing this? Throw them in at night and...