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Hi y'all, I had a hen sitting on 7 eggs and 6 six of them have hatched out so far. Now that she's finally got her babies I'm wondering what to do now. I have chick crumble and plenty of chick friendly founts but no idea what to do with the mama and little guys. Currently I have them locked in...

This is my 3-4 week old silver sebright, any guesses at what gender it is?

So we had ducks and now there gone (they were both drakes so we had to get rid of them.) Now in the spring my family is debating over what we get in the spring, ducks or geese? Which consumes more water and is more messy? Anybody like one more than the other or are they the same care wise?

I got two Pekin drakes and i only wanted a drake and hen or two hens. Both drakes haven't had any health problems and they are about 13-15 weeks of age. I'm willing to trade BOTH of them for a young hen and drake or ONE of them for a young hen. Preferably not mallards and the oldest bird I'd be...

I have a thirteen week old Pekin drake, one of this eyes now has a nasty looking infection or something. The iris has turned from a blue ish color to red brown. It's getting red around the eye aswell and it looks like the eye itself is shifting away from the bill and under the skin leaving a...

My barred rock hen finally went broody, now how would I go about caring for her? Should I keep her on the coop or move her? Now she sits on about nine eggs and I'm worried she'll move if I remove the about 5 of the eggs.

At what age would my Pekin hens start laying and Pekin drakes start mating?

I have two Pekin ducks that are about 9-10 weeks old and I think they might be shedding possibly juvenile feathers? They're chest and underside area is starting to look a bit shaggy likes it's missing some feathers, is this normal and if not are they sick or what? After swimming they get out of...

Hey BYC, I have three full grown chickens, one rooster and two hens. I also have 7 week old pekin ducks that I would like to have live with them. I worry that the rooster would try tl mate with them and pull out some of their feathers and scratch them up. How would I even go about introducing...

I have a 4 week-old barred rock cockerel that I am trying to rehome.

Hello BYC, I got 3 new baby chickens from my middle school this week, my science teacher has no idea what they were and neither do I. We'll here they are, That's #1 That's #2 Her feet are messed up and have the toes bent inward to her body, how do I fix them? They're all one week old and...

Last night when I went to bed around 10pm I shined a flashlight out to my coop and saw all 6 adult chickens. Around 6am when I went downstairs for breakfast I noticed I only had 3 CHICKENS!!! UGH! One was dead in the coop with no neck or left wing and entrails kinda spilled, then there was...

Hello BYC, I went to blue seal and picked up my two Indian runner ducklings on Friday. The man who picked them out of the stores brooder supposedly pick out TWO runners. He sounded very in confident when picking them out so here I am, are they pekins or runners? That's Phil And here's Miss Kay

Hello BYC, I add a bantam chick to my brooder. Before the chick I placed the chick in the broodermy other two two week old chicks were very friendly. Now that the bantam has been in there one of the chicks attacks my hand, it's buddy and the bantam! What can I do to calm him down to the point...

Hello BYC, I have two two week old full sized chicks in my brooder, today I hatched out a single phoenix bantam. The little guy is still wet and when he dries I hope to move it into the brooder. Will it be okay with the bigger chicks once it's walking around or not? And then on friday I'm...

Hello BYC, this is my eleven day old EE chick, she/he jumps as if fighting at the other chick and is a bit bigger than the other one, what gender is she/he?

Hello BYC, I have three new chickies and one of them is a rooster, now I already have a rooster and 6 hens in the yard. The rooster has selected a favorite hen and is messing her up. Would it be bad to have two roosters and eight hen? Would it be to much on the hens?

Hello I mixed my ameraucana mix and barred rock hen what breed does the chick look somewhat like? It's the one that's NOT black,

It's day 20 of incubating and all of my eggs piped! Yay! One of them has piped just bellw the air cell, not in it, just below it. Is that normal and if not what should I do?