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I have an old english game bantam from a hatchery that i am waiting for to get big enough to put in with my large fowl hens. I am starting to think she will never be big enough to hold her own against them. I have had her for almost two months and it seems she has hardly grown a bit.

What kind of waterer will actually last more than a few hours? I have 5 ducklings. They are about 3 weeks old. The person I got them from recommended to take a tupperware and cut a hole in the lit just big enough to fit their mouth. It worked, but it only lasts an hour. I am not into refilling...

I have a rooster that got in a rooster battle. It totally destroyed his face and took his eyeball. Up until today there was a scab over his eye socket and we had not seen what was under. Today we gently peeled the scab to find it is very badly infected and totally empty. His entire face is...

about a week ago, a dog got into my chicken coop and scattered my birds. I ended up missing three chickens and two turkeys. With them not showing up over the past week, I had totally given up on them being alive. One came home today!!!! She is skinny and scared, but HOME! Think there is...

Just for funsies. I went to the farm store yesterday, and they had two little assorted bantam chicks left. They looked so sad and lonely so I bought them. One had sever pasty butt (its vent was totally blocked, but we cleared it up now) Any guesses as to breed?

I have a hen that keeps acting like she is broody. She gets all puffy and tucks all the eggs under her. She pecks at me and the other chickens that get too close while she is in the nesting box. She has even plucked a few breast feathers. The issue? She will sit on the nest, on eggs, for 3 or...

I have this guy. He was in a mystery package from a hatchery so I have zero clue what he is. I was thinking he was a blue maran, but... I am not very knowledgeable with chickens. I can get other pictures if needed.

I went to check my brooder and found one of my 3 week old molted houdan chicks just kind of layin there. I picked it up, and he didn't struggle or even attempt to jump down like normal. When I laid him down, he just laid right back down with his head on the floor of the brooder. What do I do...

All of my chickens are acting normal, but today when I was collecting eggs I saw some red in a pile of chicken poo. It looked like small hunks of meat about three times the size of a grain of rice. That means I have worms, right? Is there something I can get from the tractor store to...

I have not been a chicken owner very long, and am in total shock. We have a sick chicken. It is one of our barred rock hens, she normally does not let anyone get close to her let alone touch her. So that was the first sign. I noticed she was not running so I picked her up (with zero struggle...

This year, I have gotten chickens for the first time. I got 4 Delaware and 2 barred rock hens that had just molted right before the cold started. I also have two 8 month females that had yet to lay when I got them, on is just a barnyard mix and the other a splash cochin. Around Christmas time...

Ok, so I have been searching around and I know there are a ton of questions on this, but the answers always confuse me so much!! So we have a coop right now, that the previous owners of my house built and was using. It was poorly built, but works for now. We are planning on building a new coop...

I am about to get between 6 and 8 new chickens from someone and I need to get them back to my house. I have used a dog crate before, but I am not sure if it will work for that many. We have two different dog crates, one is a smaller one that we used when our dog was a puppy and the other one is...

Do you need to close the chickens in the coop at night, or do you leave the door open so they can get in and out of the run during the night?

Last night we noticed one of our little chickies had a bunch of poo building up on its little rear. It was not blocking anything, but we went ahead and soaked its little rear in some warm water and got all of the poo off. When it was all gone we noticed a little hard pimple thing on his butt...

I got a batch of 8 chicks from Meyer hatchery last Wednesday, but we were brave and did the "adoption" pack. So it is just 8 chickens and I have no clue at all what they could be. How old do I need to let them get before I start making guesses on what kind of chickens they will be and if they...

I am just joining, my husband surprised me with 10 little baby chickens a while back and I am getting ready to move them out into a coop. Just starting my journey and am joining to find some support and ask a few questions along the way. Here soon, we are going to be building a new coop...