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0F53DD1B-2156-4B95-A916-A5C4AF9A7F86 by kroder posted Jan 11, 2019 at 9:44 PM641A679A-C631-4BFA-B3A7-52E59689C033 by kroder posted Jan 11, 2019 at 9:44 PM4210910D-1BFB-401C-B029-0A82354FCC42 by kroder posted Jan 11, 2019 at 9:44 PM3B5114EF-97FE-4E87-928D-0DADF189E51A by kroder posted Jan 11...

I have been losing poultry over the last couple of weeks to an unknown predator. I have been keeping chicken for 10 years and this is the first problem I've had. I have lost more chickens to loose dogs than anything else. I have lost 3 juvenile Muscovy Ducks, 10 young assorted Bantams that...

I went out this evening tonight to find my favorite (and one of my last pet) hens. With a swollen right eye with dried crusty fluid on it. The left side is completely normal. Is it infectious Coryza or trauma? She is not gurgling or sneezing. She took 6cc of water and we gave her a shot to...

I bought these two chicks at Tractor Supply this spring to keep a singleton that had hatched out company. Now I don't know what they are. They are vulture hocked and booted. Thanks in advance. https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6832828/sponsors/...

Can anyone tell me what my mystery chick from McMurray might be? It came in with my Cornish X pullets 5 weeks ago. I am guessing Austrolop or Jersey Giant. It has a single comb and is light on the bottom of its feet. I know that the "mystery" chicks are usually males, but I am really hoping...

I posted a thread in the "Diseases and Emergency" forum telling about how all my meat birds are sick. I have 29 jumbo Cornish x that are 5 weeks and 20 Cornish rocks that are 8 weeks. They have a respiratory disease that has affected my whole meat flock. My layers have been almost unaffected -...

This year we decided to try our hand at raising meat birds. We keep about 30 laying hens and have never had problems with disease. I haven't brought in any new birds for over a year--we hatch our own or buy fertile eggs. After butchering our young roosters, we decided it was not bad and and...

I have a year old D'Anver that went broody for the first time a few months ago and sat on 7 eggs. They started hatching two days before I expected and she was still in the coop with the other hens. I went out and found the newly hatched chick pecked to death and thrown on the floor. I assumed...

I have a 2 week old D'Anver x Silkie chick that is very sick. He was fine yesterday and today he can't walk. The same thing happened to another clutch of D'Anver X Cochin that are a month older. One morning one could not use his legs. He was bright and alert and would eat and drink if placed...

One of my little d'Anvers hen went broody this week. One of the eggs under her is this tiny brown one (on the bottom). I have had 3 other of these eggs over the past few months. I didn't think much of the first couple--thinking it was a fluke of the young d"Anvers, but now I am wondering if a...

Can anyone please tell me what might be wrong with my 2 year old Buff Brahma hen? A few months ago, I noticed that she was losing feathers on her back. I thought it was a rooster problem and found a home for our very large Blue Opington roo. It did not clear up and I thought maybe she was...

I need some help in judging my little chicken, Daper Dan. He is a 4 month old blue quail d"Anvers. I got 6 of them in the spring. I have never shown chickens before, but I am thinking of entering him in the fair. From what i have read on the standard and looked at other pics, he is a nice...

I got my Ideal order of 8 Buff Brahma pullets last Thursday. They included 12 "packing peanuts" for warmth. When I placed the order they asked if they could add peanuts and I said yes, so they not a total surprise--I just didn't expect 12! I had 2 hens that were sitting on eggs for the first...

I have 2 blue orpington roosters that need new home--Optimus Prime and Andre. They are beautiful birds and they are huge. I got the eggs from a women here on the list who is working on these birds. I am near Amarillo, TX and they are for pick up only. Please email me if...

I have 4 silver laced cochins cockerals that are about 8 weeks old. They are calm birds and not quite mature yet. I got way too many males this year (about 99%) and need to find homes for several of them. Free and pick up only.

Silver laced Sebright cockerals 10 weeks old. I have 4 to place in homes. They were hand raised and are fairly tame. They are very curious and will follow you around the yard. Free to the right home. Pick up only.

How soon before hatching do you hear the chicks peeping inside the shell? I have 2 Buff Orpingtons sitting on eggs that I ordered and put under them on 5/13. Tomorrow will be 21 days, but I don't hear any sound coming frome the eggs. I candled them about 10 after I got them and all but 1...

I have posted about these chickens before to see what kind they were. It was determined that they are a Brahma cross. Now I would like to know what sex they are. I am having a had time telling. I am leaning towards one rooster and 2 hens. They are about 20 weeks old. No one is crowing...

I got these 4 young roosters to go with my young partridge cochins pullets. I got mine from Privitt hatchery and these boys from Ideal. The women I got them from said they were "packing peanuts" for her order and that they are also partridge cochins. They look very different from my girls...