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My polish hen has been losing her chest feathers and "top hat" feathers. I thought it was her molting but I saw what looked to be a boil above her right eye and on her chest. Have an appointment this Monday but any advice would help. Thank you. (I can't upload any photos)

I am wondering about my chicken's egg shell color. Last year I had Golden Comet hens and they laid very nice brown eggs. I ended up selling them once I became pregnant and since having my son I've been looking into getting more hens. My step son brought home a Golden Comet hen and a Black...

I have acquired a black rooster. The guy that gave him to me said he was a black bantam but he has a little blue or green tint to his tail feathers. What do y'all think he is?

Hello fellow chicken lovers. I plan on selling eggs at my farmers market and I know I'll need a label on the carton but I'm not sure what exactly needs to be put on the label besides my farm name, address, expiration date. Also what would you recommend I sell my eggs for? I live in central...

Well here I am asking for help again from you wonderful chicken lovers. A neighbor of mine has 2 hens he's wanting to sell for $30. Says they are Crele Bantam Wyandottes. I have no idea if there is such a breed of chicken or not. The only breed I have had experience in is my Golden Comets from...

Alright I figured I'd get a bigger response in the meat department of the chicken community so to speak. I got 3 chickens that look to be about a month and a half old from a lady who didn't know what breed they were so I posted a couple photos of them on the breed and gender section. One member...

Have another question for everyone. I got 3 white chickens today. They seem to be around a month and a half old roughly. The lady I got them from wasn't for sure what breed they were let alone how old they are. She gave me a little bit of feed for them and for some reason had some baby chick...

Hello chicken community. I have a question for everyone. I have these 3 lovely little white chicks and am trying to figure out what breed they are and if possible what gender. Hopefully someone can help me out. Thank you.

My husband and I have finally decided on what breeds we'd like to have in our flock. Since I only want layers and we're not wanting a lot of chickens we've decided on black australorps, EEs, Golden Comets and my husband wants one polish but I'm concerned about the polish getting picked on by the...

Hello. Wilson chickens here. I started my little flock of chickens last spring when I purchased 6 golden comet pullets from Tractor Supply. Unfortunately during the first few months of having them I ended up losing 3 of them, two to my German Shepherd and one to an owl. The other three were...

Hello everyone. There's a gentleman who has contacted me about giving me his two 6 week old chicks. One is a barred rock and the other is a red star. He claims the barred rock is a rooster but I'm uncertain and I also have no idea what a red star is. Anyhow I have a photo of the barred rock so...

I found one of my pullets dead two days ago with just her head eaten and her left wing was a few inches from her body. I'm not sure what killed her since my other 3 pullets weren't hurt at all and the pullet that was killed her body was found outside in the run not in the coop.

One of my pullets got attacked by my chihuahua earlier. From what I could tell he got the pullet underneath her wings, feathers missing but doesn't look like any puncture wounds. This is my first time having chickens but do I just clean the area and keep her inside for awhile till the feathers...

My husband and I have a shed/garage that we keep our mowing equipment in that's 15x20. We're going to divide the shed/garage in half and use the back half as the chicken coop since there's a wide flat space behind the shed/garage that we've already made into the chicken run. We started out with...

Would I be able to keep my chicks on chick starter then transition them to the layer pellets and oyster shell when they start laying or do I need to switch them from chick starter to an adult chicken feed once they're 10-12 weeks old?

I am wondering how old my chicks are. I got them from TSC on the 6th of April and was told they were two weeks when I picked them up. They'd be a month old this Saturday by the TSC calculations but they don't have a lot of feathering. I'll let my fellow chicken lovers give their opinions on my...

My husband and I are in the process of gathering up materials to start building our pallet coop. I have 6 Golden Comet pullets (we'll see if they all are hens or if a rooster slipped in somewhere :). I'm not sure how big I need the coop. How much space would 6 chickens need? I've looked up...

I went to TSC the other day to look at some chicks. TSC only had bantams and comets. The gentleman that I talked with said the comets were a cross between white leghorns and rhode island reds and the pullets would lay white eggs not brown. My hubby said to purchase six of them and now wants more...

Hello everyone. I stumbled across BYC today when I started looking for information on Comet chicks. My husband and I decided to get some layers so we went to Tractor Supply. They had Bantams and Comet chicks. Said they'd have some more chicks within the next few weeks but my husband wanted to...