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Cross beak does not get worst, it is as bad as it is going to get. I have a cross beak chicken named Olive and she is doing just fine. She eats well, takes on my Roo and is very sweet! Just like people some come out a little special! I have no plans on breeding so I would never cull a cross beak...

Sounds like you have a broody, at least to me. My chicken nuts will sit on eggs and make the most horrible sound you have ever heard and try to peck me when they want to be broody! I would put some food and water by her and take her off the nest for a few minutes so she goes to the bathroom...

I tend to get lazy sometimes, and I will leave my eggs in the coop for 3-4 days. After that I throw them in the fridge. I didn't wash eggs until I started selling them and people like, well poop free eggs. If the egg is clean I don't wash it since its overkill. But now I have 3 broodys so I have...

I started out with 6 chickens and the next spring it has turned into 15. I have to build a new coop and everything. No matter if you think you will not get anymore chickens or not...you will! It is a horrible addiction, but the best therapy! I actually did not build any nest boxes for my...

If you have extra eggs just give them away! Neighbors will love you, and not hate your roo so much LOL! I sell enough to cover food costs and then give away the rest!

I thought about doing that I will try it today and update you! Thank you!

I have a buttercup that has huge spurs, I believe they bigger then my Roo's. And she uses them on him when he gets to frisky!

I started composting with worms so that my chickens could eat them and they love it when I bring them a scoop of fresh worms! I feel a bit bad for the worms but, they should not be so tasty or the chickens would not eat them!

Beautiful babies!

Be careful getting the eggs my broody monster chicken pecked me so hard the other day it gave me a bruise! Broody hens are DANGEROUS!

My very tiny frizzle had a prolapsed vent so she was out of the coop for about 2 weeks recovering. Now since I reintroduced her to the flock they have been plucking her and making her bleed. I have her in a sectioned off part of the coop now so she can see the others but they cannot pick on her...

You can feed your chickens meat, but personally I think that it is very gross. In a chickens typical diet they do eat "meat" like bugs and sometimes frogs and mice but not any large animals. Raw meat can have bacteria that can make them sick. I would avoid meat, feed them veggie scraps and then...

I have the opposite problem, all of my chickens want to go broody! My crazy silkie loves sitting on eggs and now I have a frizzle sitting, I am going to candle tonight. Then I catch my other chickens trying to kick them off the nest so they can have a go at it. Happy chickens make happy chicks...

My chickens would go back in their coop for treats, but now that does not work. I started to let my chicken friends out a few hours before dark. I have major hawk and dog problems so I have to stand by my chickens or something will try to eat them. I would lock your chickens up at night just to...

It does not seem to be inflamed. I have decided not to use the Duramycin and just give her the medicated chick food for a few more days. She is pirching on the side of the rubbermaid tub that she is in so she seems to be doing just fine, but I am just a worried chicken mom. I will observe her...

Ok so I have a little Frizzle and she had a prolapsed vent, I put it back and it has stayed for two days. Yesterday she laid an egg and no problems. But now I am worried about infection. I bought some Duramycin-10 but that seems to be a bit much. I have been feeding her chick food since that has...

Warm oatmeal on cold days, yogurt is a big hit (plus it is very cute when they eat it since it gets everywhere), noodles, veggie scraps, and sometimes they get some worms from my worm bin! I like to stop at the day-old-bread store we have in town and pick up a loaf of wheat bread and give them...

Hope your chicken child makes a full recovery, I will send good energy your way! Yesterday my frizzle had a prolapsed vent, I put it back in numerous times. After a warm bath and snuggling her in a towel for hours I put her to bed. In the morning it was still in and she was eating and drinking...

I have one BR and she is very different from my other hens. She likes to wander off to the neighbors compost pile. The first time she did this I thought something got her. Each chicken has their own personality. I would try to win her friendship by giving her lots of special treats. Meal worms...

I don't have any of those breeds but I have 2 DL, 1 EE, 1 FV, 1 buttercup, 2 Silkie's, 2 Frizzles, 1BR, 1 unknown LOL! They all seem to get along fine and two are roo's, my roo's seem to pick on my smaller chickens to breed with them but that has been my only issue. I slowly added mine and let...