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It's been a few days and we've tried everything in the book to find the mother. I think she may be long gone, but hopefully she didn't get eaten. The good news is that the little one is starting to adjust nicely, he's been eating and drinking with the encouragement of another orphan who recently...

After a string of bizarre events leaving various baby animals at our doorstep, today we came home to find a wild duckling sitting smack dab in the middle of our driveway. He lead us on a brief chase before giving in and letting us carry him to safety where he promptly fell asleep in my hands...

Gypsy Danger. Pacific Rim. Haha yes, solid reference. Unfortunately many of Percy's siblings are starting to look like roosters, too. He hasn't crowed anymore since the first week of his life. It's been months now!

Certainly! It'll be interesting to see what she grows into.

Well there are plenty of feather-footed breeds that aren't silkies, and there's always the possibility there was another breed of parents involved. Like I said, it was a grab bag between my own flock and the farm next door. She could be a silkie mix, but most of my mixes get the extra toes...

This is Persimmon. He is the only chick in our current brood that were %100 sure about sex. So obviously he can be expected to be strutting about like he owns the place in only a matter of weeks. Or perhaps, days? I really want to try to capture it on video, but he's a tricky bugger. It's...

Specific location?

So we recently just hatched a grab-bag of eggs from our own flock and from a farm down the street. The potential parents range from sex-links to Araucanas to Silkies, Leghorns, and various Reds. Her face pattern resembles somewhat of a Husky dog. She has slight leg feathering, and splotchy...

Nah, she hatched. We good.

I've got one duck egg in the incubator from a nest of 6, the other 5 hatched fine with their mother this morning. The egg inside pipped a couple days ago and seems to have been making steady progress but after forming a pretty solid crack a quarter way around the egg, nothing new has happened...

The only place he ever moves them to is about an inch above the ground and then he just lets them go. Probably due to the squeaking and struggling. I just thought it was bizarre and that maybe someone had some experience with this.

So I have a silkie rooster named Sumo, he has spent most of his life sharing a home with another roo who was much bigger and scarier than Sumo could have hoped to be. For a large portion of Sumo's life, we thought he was a hen. He looked and acted like one, anyway. Sumo has been relocated to a...

Thank you for your quick response and for the useful resources. I'm sorry as I didn't mean to imply I was going to give shots of Tylan to my entire flock. I've isolated the infected chickens and gave them each a size-appropriate dosage. In only one day I'm seeing significant improvements...

As of today, two of my roosters have come down with some sort of eye infection. There's no swelling, some puss, and its pushed their eye way back into their head. The second one we spotted today, I wiped off some eye foam with my shirt and brought him inside to clean out the puss. His eye has...

Glasses have protected my eyes from a few curious pecks. You should also never smile at a shoulder chicken, as they tend to mistake teeth for corn.

Haha wow are you me? We had a rooster named Cinnamon, which we also later changed to Cinna-man when we learned it was a boy. What are the odds? As for the thread. We have a Silkie boy named Sh#*-Back. He didn't have a name, and then one day he came out of the coop covered in... Well you can guess.

This. Definitely this. I had a chick hatch in a bunch who just.. Wouldn't grow. He feathered out completely EVERYWHERE except for his head, and he was tiny. The silkies were even two or three times bigger than him. Here is next to his sister of the same age. It's been 8 months and he's a...

Is there any reason for this? I've just never seen any of my hens do it before. I think its funny.

I have a small EE hen named Pidgy. These past couple days, after leaving the nesting box she starts picking up dried leaves and feathers off the ground and proceeds to toss them over her shoulder onto her back. What's that about?

As it goes with hatching at home, many of our little ones have ended up as boys. With Spring swiftly marching over the horizon, hormones are taking over and we have to thin the number of roosters in our flock. The boys we're offering up here are actually the sweetest ones in the bunch. They need...