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I have a week old baby chick that was fine yesterday, but today he appears bloated and swollen. So swollen he's walking bowlegged and his wings are puffed away from his body. See below. Other than looking like someone filled him up with an air, he's acting totally normal. Eating and hard to...

Random chicken egg hatching question – can an egg hatch itself? Let me explain. I have a nursery pen, where I usually let my broodys raise their peeps until they are old enough to free range and roost. Also, in that pen, I keep a bantam cochin rooster, Scrappy, who is on the disabled list...

We live in north GA and despite stacking straw, adding heat lamps and insulating our coop, some of our free rangers still decided to sleep in the trees on our coldest nights. Temps were in the single digits and wind chills were 10 below. The next day, some of the roosters that stayed outside...

Can someone please tell me what breed this rooster is?

I have two part rock ladies that I added to my coop flock this spring. I think they are about 15ish weeks old??? I say i think, as they were purchased from Tractor Supply, and they didn't know exactly how old the chicks were when I got them. I have has them about 13 weeks and they have been with...

I recently invested in adjustable metal leg bands to outfit our hatched chicks with so i could keep up with their development, laying, health, etc. as they mature. At what age can you put these metal bands on to ensure the bands don't become too tight as the chickens mature? I have a group of...

For those of you which have raised chicks with broodies: do I still need to check chicks for pasting up? Or will mama hen handle that? We typically don't have pasting problems with our incubator chicks, but I do butt checks every couple days the first few weeks. Do I need to check the peeps with...

For those of you which have raised chicks with broodies: do I still need to check chicks for pasting up? Or will mama hen handle that? We typically don't have pasting problems with our incubator chicks, but I do butt checks every couple days the first few weeks. Do I need to check the peeps with...

Right now, I have 5 mama hens hatching eggs. The first clutch hatched last night and we moved mama and chicks to a nursery pen successfully this morning. The pen is completely enclosed to thwart predators and probably 8 feet by 6 feet (lots of room). I made a shelter out of a rubber tub (stuffed...