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I bought 6 brabanter chicks, because they’re beautiful! However the 6 chicks I have are flighty and aggressive. I have never had chicks this young show aggression. The chicks are about 2 1/2 weeks old and when you stick your hand in the brooder they will kick (?) at your hands, they will...

I used to work in a chicken house and sometimes the hens would lay their eggs in the shavings and then they would get covered and when you would walk around the house looking for rotten eggs you would accidently step on one and yes it would explode and smell pretty bad. We would check every week...

My feed store doesn't sell meal worms :/ No treats except bread for my chickens :/ But they love their white bread.

You could try putting in a perch for them to roost and jump on. You can make a separate area for them to start practicing their scratching made of sand and *small bits of gravel. Which is also good for them to eat since they need little rocks and such things in their crops so they can grind...

I always mix boiled eggs in with my baby crumbles for my new bitties. Just mash them up, show it to them and normally they devour it. I hear some people feed cooked white rice too. But when they are little I also like to mix a little sand in with their food so their crop can grind the food for...

All flocks have a pecking order but buffs are usually pretty docile. I don't take my new chicks out from under the heat lamp in my brooder until they are around 5 weeks old, which then they should be used to a temperature of around 70 degrees and no longer need the heat lamp. I think after...

Will mom take the chick back if you separate them for a few days?

I have an Old English game hen that hatched out a clutch of ten. My neighbor brought me a bitty and I thought i could sneak it under her in the night and that she would accept the new baby. Negative. I woke up very early to see how she would react before she left the house, and as soon as she...

I will take better pics tomorrow, even though he is a week behind the others would his comb be significantly not as developed as his other siblings who are a week older? The 2 roosters who are a week older than my mystery odd ball chick with curled tail are already starting to mock fight and...

She ended up taking a turn for the worse and we lost her. Never will understand what caused the tumor thing :/

That is a good idea. They say that going broody has a little something to do with light, breed, age, bla bla and who knows what else. People seem to think that learned behavior is not possible. Yet Fred's Hens the BYC post about how she tracked the generations it just seems possible that learned...

There has not been enough research done on behavior of chickens. I'm sure that most people regard them as unintelligent. Yet as the years go by and I watch my flock for extended periods of time the more I become fascinated with these animals that most think of as clueless. These birds clearly...

The chick in the back with black edging on the tail is a roo BUT the chick in the front its tail curls? The roo chick in the back hatched a week earlier than the one in the front but they are both from the same parents. The other hens in the clutch their tails do not curl like the odd ball in...

I have a partridge old english game hen who hatched out six babies by a RIRr she has been such a good mom and has taught her babies everything from scratching for bugs to looking up in the sky if they hear predator birds. In the past I have had incubator babies but none have ever gone broody...

Thanks unfortunately I made the hard decision to put him down. I hate losing an animal. I have learned a hard lesson about how important quarantining is, my hen is now starting to act oddly and sneezing today. I am never trading chickens again what bothers me the most is if that man knew he was...

MY second post unfortunately is about another sick chicken. I traded roosters with a man and when I first got him I thought he was kinda weird. He didn't move to much and as the week has progressed so have his symptoms. He now is off balance, looks like he has avian pox bc he has white and black...

I'm worried he will lose his eye and I'm not sure if I should make an incision and see if anything drains out...?