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I have a little 8 week old BCM chick that just cannot grow back feathers and feathers under her wings. I also have a barnyard mix, from the same batch, that is even worse than her. Zero back feathers but huge/long wing feathers. He is also a runt. Both are extremely small (not bantams). To...

We have a few roosters that we need to process, but with my carpal tunnel acting up over these past few weeks, we've though about just skinning them rather than hand processing the feathers, etc. My biggest question is, how on earth would I cook the entire chicken without it drying out? I...

Hatch day should have been yesterday for us. I had 2 hatch overnight and one hatched in about 30 minutes this morning (from pip to hatch), but I have a few eggs that pipped yesterday morning, and still haven't made my progression 24 hrs later. They are still very active and peeping, just not...

I seriously don't know whether its a sneeze, a cough, or just a squeak. On one of the bitter cold days here in VA, it started that evening. Every time he'd make his "ladies, come eat" sound, he'd only get it halfway out and then sneeze/cough/squeak. He's crowing fine, sounds a little...

We just took on our new status as "half acre chicken farmers" a few weeks ago -- we love our chickens! We "inherited" a 5 yr and 2 yr old buff orphington from a friend of mine who could no longer care for them. Then we got a beautiful EE rooster to go along with them. Most recently, we've...

We just started our chicken adventure, and so far we have LOVED it. However, this weekend we went to our first chicken swap and decided to bring home two beautiful buff orphington pullets. They were 5-6 months old. Beautiful birds. We looked them over very carefully, top to bottom, and found...