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I have asked this question in several locations now (locally), but I thought I would try my hand here. The eggs from my layers (some 2 years old, some 1 year old) have a ridiculously high percentage of blood spots or meat spots in them. Nearly every egg. Most of these are small. These girls are...

Two and a half weeks old. Slate colored legs. Yellowish white fuzz at two days old, feathering out very white. I think it's a roo. Maybe an Andalusian?

One of our week old chicks has a spongy, full crop. Not hard. Like a balloon of water. Is there anything I can do to help it? She looks lethargic, and I have a feeling she won't make it if I don't do something this morning.

Yesterday morning I woke up to find our Cochin hen still in her "nest" in the corner of the coop, sitting on her one lonely (unfertilized) egg, showing signs of broodiness. I called my aunt, who has fertile eggs in her coop, and she brought me five to put under Pinga. Because her location in the...

Pearl has been acting oddly for the past two days. Tonight I helped her pass this, with the aid of some olive oil. The entire soft shell seems to be intact. What follow up care should I offer? Should I be concerned?

We have a flock of 10 hens, hatched in late April, and I have had a sense that something was not quite right with them for the past 2 months. It started when our EE stopped laying quite suddenly in October. Initially, I suspected that it was due to the shortening of days here in Maine, but...

My hens are 31 weeks old. 4 of them have started laying. One of them started and then stopped in early October, I assume because of the declining light. 6 hens have yet to lay an egg. Does this indicate a problem, or does it just mean that I'll have to wait until the light increases in the...

We have a flock of 10 hens. They are currently 27 weeks old, and only three of them have begun to lay (it's November in Maine). One of our early layers, our Easter Egger, began to lay back in August, at about 19 weeks. She was our most consistent layer, laying nearly every day, laying a double...

I know that pullets are capable of producing all kinds of oddities, but for curiosity's sake, I'd like to know what happened with this one. The formed shell part of it is nubbly and chalky (I'm not sure if you can see that in the pic). The rest of it is like a "rubber" egg. The hen that...

Well, we discovered our first egg on Sunday, outside. Nothing on Monday, and then another egg on Tuesday that looked very similar. Then, two days later, we found this egg. Much darker bloom...speckles...probably 25% larger than the first two eggs. It follows the very early...

Just found some mold in our feed bag, so we're tossing it and heading out to buy new feed. The old bag we said to change from the starter/grower to layer at 16 weeks, but I know our dual purpose ladies won't start laying for several more weeks. They are 17 weeks as of yesterday. Should we go...

I was just doing some research to find out when I should discontinue medicated feed for my "chicks" and learned that I've been feeding it to them for far too long. They're 17 weeks! Have I done any harm? I could have sworn that the early research I did said to feed them the same food up until I...

So I was one of those people who didn't close off the nesting boxes before moving my 5 week old chicks out to the coop. Oops! I felt bad cutting of their safe spot too soon, so they continued to sleep all piled into one box (how did they do that!?) until 10 weeks. At that point my husband and I...

Boy or girl?

When this baby was 3-4 weeks old, it had black on its chest, and I was told that that meant it was "for sure" a cockerel. Now, at 11-12 weeks, I can't imagine it's anything but a pullet. What do you think? Teddy (above) Cherry (Teddy's "sister). Notice how much lighter her coloring is...

This is our 10 week old SLW, Pearl. I had some concerns about her, early-on, but she looks like a she now, right?

I absolutely love the stage that our chickens are in right now. 6 weeks old, just about fully feathered, but still peeping away. I got a few minutes to spend outside with them today (the chicks, the baby, and I), and I finally managed to snag the first few pictures of them out and about in the...

Pictures of our 3 week old EE. She/he was sexed as a female, but with all the "black and white means rooster" that I've seen here on BYC, I'm starting to wonder. The feathers came in brown and black at first, and now the chest and upper wing feathers are showing black and white melding into the...

Hello all. I live in Maine, and we're currently brooding our first batch of chicks. For the first two weeks, we kept them in a large brooder in our kitchen, but as the Great Chick Dust Bowl set in, we decided to move our set up out to the enclosed front porch. All has gone well thus far. My...

I have a chick question for you. All of my little ladies are running around, acting healthy and inquisitive, except one. My little Blue Cochin seemed to have the beginnings of pasty butt yesterday, so I cleaned her up with warm water and soap and dried her off with a warm hair dryer. She also...