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We have a new batch of 8 chicks, one week old yesterday. Various breeds, all have been perfectly healthy up to today when we noticed that the Salmon Faverolle chick cannot open one of her eyes, I reviewed photos and she could definitely open her eye and no sign of problems last week. Details and...

She’s the reason we got chickens this year - she had been asking for 3 years (since she was 3yo!) and we finally took the plunge. She’s a great chicken farmer!

I have two small young flocks of bantams and would like to merge them into a single flock. Next week our large new coop and covered run arrives with the plan to house them together. Right now Flock A has 5 pullets aged eight months, with 3 EE, a buff Brahma, and a d’Uccle. (All bantams). The...

Pls help - my chicks (5w old) were just attacked while in the run area of their Omelet Eglu. I have 2 dead, 2 missing, and 1 had a wing torn off. What do I do? It’s sunday after 5pm, our vet who treats chickens/exotics doesn’t open until 8am tomorrow and the closest 24hr emergency vet is over an...

Hi all, I've got four bantam cochins that are 3 weeks and 3 days old. I've noticed differences in their combs and am wondering if this is a point at which we can surmise cockerel/pullet. Numbering them below and then I'll comment with my own impressions. I'm pretty much a newbie posting here...

Hi again, love this forum! I was reading that sex-links are often indicated by a spot on the top of their head. We got some day-old Easter Eggers last week from Cackle Hatchery and two of this chicks are a downy yellow with gray wing tips. One has always had a dark spot on its head, the other...

Hi all! I’m pretty sure that one of these chicks (Chick #2, with the lighter wings are reddish head) is a buff brahma. It was the largest chick of the 18 day-old bantams we got, and the coloring seemed to match pics online of a buff Brahma. As they start to get feathers, Chick #1 is looking...

Hi all, two of the chicks we recently got in our “bantam feathered feet” assortment from Cackle are a pretty light gray/blue color. They have longer necks than the bantam Cochin we got, and longer wing tips too. But their body shape is not like the Mille Fleur D’uccles we have (one gray one has...