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This is my first time having more than one rooster so I don't know what's "normal" or what's concerning behavior. We have 24 hens and 2 roosters; one is about 2 years old (speckled sussex) and the other is a little over a year (black australorp). They free range all day and have a pretty big run...

All chicks are about 2 months old. I got two cream legbars, one has a crest and one doesn't. They look pretty similar otherwise, the one without a crest is a bit darker in color. Is this normal for cream legbars? Is she potentially not pure cream legbar? They came from the same place (feed...

This evening I found my favorite chicken, my olive egger dead in the coop. Not in a nest box but in a corner of the coop where they lay eggs sometimes (not usually her though, she always laid in the nest boxes). My partner said he noticed her sitting there earlier and he thought she was just...

One pullet from my latest batch has always been a bit...off. She's the smallest of the bunch by far, and there was a brief period after we brought them home that she seemed like she wasn't going to make it (lethargy, no interest in food/water) but she pulled out of it after a day and was fine...

My batch of chicks are all at least 4 weeks old now! We purchased all 9 of these chicks as sexed pullets from a local breeder/hatchery but there's a few that got me like 🤔 so I thought I'd start a thread! I'll be updating every few weeks with more pics since I know they're still pretty young...

(Apologies, I don't know if they're sex-linked or autosexing or what the correct term would be!) I know it's a bit early to tell, but this has been bugging me! I bought these two "Marans hybrids" as sexed pullets from a local breeder/hatchery. Not sure what the mix is exactly but the description...

We picked up 9 chicks on Saturday, all are breeds I've never had before except for the easter eggers. We got 2 speckled sussex, 2 easter eggers, 2 "marans hybrid", a welsummer, a salmon faverolle, and an olive egger. All sexed so should be pullets. One of the easter eggers, the smallest of the...

When I went to close up the coop tonight I noticed my buff orpington hen had what looked like a scabbed over cut on her side under her wing. I'm assuming this is from our rooster over mating her because she is missing a lot of saddle feathers as well. Her and another hen have been missing saddle...

I'm so excited, this morning's egg collection was a surprise: one of our Easter Eggers laid her first egg and it's a beautiful blue-green! Even more exciting, she's the first pullet from our latest batch to lay! She's 25 weeks old and I know EEs can take a while to lay so I was expecting her to...

I’ve posted about these chickens before and thought I had 4 cockerels and 2 hens. They’re all about 15 or 16ish weeks old now. There’s two obvious hens, two obvious roosters, and then these two which I can’t figure out for the life of me. i thought they were cockerels due to the tail feathers...

Back again, with my newest chicks! My last batch of "new hampshire red pullets" ended up being mixed breeds and whats looking like 4 cockerels...hoping for better luck with these. The silver laced wyandottes are 7 weeks old and the other four (buff orp, black australorp, two easter eggers) are...

I posted before about my 6 chickens asking for help with sexing and breed. Now the chickens are about 10 weeks old and look like real, grown-up birds! I'm still not sure about breed; they were sold as New Hampshire Reds and kind of look like it now (except for one). I'm pretty confident 2 are...

I posted a bit ago about our new chicks that were sold as New Hampshire Reds but I wasn't sure if they were. Now they are about 3 weeks old, I can tell two definitely are not and I'm still not sure about the others. I'm also questioning about their gender...the feed store we got them from said...

Got these 6 chicks from a local feed store a week ago (so they're probably about 1.5 weeks old now) the guy said they were all New Hampshire Reds. I pointed out the different colors and he said they would all grow up the same despite being different colors now. I've never raised New Hampshire...

A few days ago one of our rhode island reds was acting sick and lethargic so we brought her inside for care. She was very lethargic, stumbling when walking, difficulty breathing and making a rattling sound when breathing. She wasn't drinking much water, but eating a lot. She eventually died...