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Did we get lucky and finally get an actual Ameracauna? Buff Ameracauna maybe? Or a Wheaten? Or is she an EE? My daughter is curious because she would like to show her at the county fair if she’s a true Ameracauna ♥️ Thanks for any help! Oh and she’s a pullet, hatched this spring

We took in a random chick that hatched in a friend's coop because she doesn't have the setup for it...one itty bitty chick. So we have the MHP setup, she's eating and drinking, but she will not stay under that MHP for anything. Anyone have experience with just one chick? No one around here has...

I have a 3 week old chick that I'm concerned about and I think it might be failure to thrive. I've searched on here and tried to Google, but can't find a list of symptoms for it? I know they're smaller than the others and don't seem to grow normally, fluffed out feathers, anything else? Thanks...

My feed store was out of regular chick starter and only had medicated 😣 Will that be okay? I have some left that I could mix with it. They’ve only had regular. thanks!

I have a chick that I’m concerned about. She’s a month old and is smaller than the others. She breathes kind of hard and is lethargic, sleeps while the others are doing chick things. She eats and drinks normally. It’s just odd. Thoughts?

Anyone ever notice injuries above their rooster’s spurs? Mine has it above both spurs and cannot figure out what might have happened? He had it last summer too. It’s about the size of a dime-nickel. Almost looks like a blood blister under his scales, but one is bleeding a little. I put gauze...

Hey all-I have a 6 day old chick that was doing great, but now won’t eat. She will barely come out from under the MHP, I have to shoo her out. She came out and drank this morning but isn’t eating. Her crop was empty yesterday too. No other obvious things going on, no pasty butt or sneezing etc...

Hey all! I'm needing some ideas for what to use to keep our chicks water from freezing? They are set up in a livestock water tank with the mama heating pad brooder in our garage (cars are parked outside) and I'm wondering how to keep the water from freezing. We live in Iowa and its 22 today and...

Some of my chickens (2 years old) have watery diarrhea. I took a few samples to the vet, samples were from the roost in a couple places and then from the ground where one pooped as I was watching. I gathered up what I could, but the sample wasn’t great. Took it all in, vet found nothing. They...

I posted this on the Facebook page too and it was fun! So I thought I would share it here too, plus give a plug for the mama heating pad :D My mom just got these new babies in this morning, can you guess what breed they are?

How old were your hens when they stopped laying? Or what is typical if you know?

We've been doing al we can to prevent our Wellie rooster from getting frostbite, applying Vaseline every night and our coop has decent ventilation (no condensation on the windows? So, I'm in Iowa and it's -11* actual temperature:O And his wattles feel frozen even! The tips of his comb definitely...

I have a mixed aged flock and my bigs eggs have been nasty lately, like gross smelling and with some of them the white and yolk mix when you crack them into the pan and the stink too :/ The bigs are 3-4 years old (I bought them from a gal rehoming her birds) and so I'm wondering if this is an...

Just curious what others do and why? Thank you! :)

She's 6 months old and haven't seen her lay yet, but she's been in the nesting box since yesterday afternoon sometime. We took her out this morning and she'll drink but not eat. She acts like she doesn't feel well. She does this thing where she puts her head back once in awhile, you know how...

She isn't wanting to leave the nesting box, we haven't seen her lay anything. I can't feel an egg? Not interested in food, drinks water, poops but acts like something is wrong when we take her out of the coop. Not interested in clover which she usually loves, brought her inside and offered...

Back story-I have a head rooster who has 7 hens, this spring I added some chicks, 2 are roos. The littles are almost 5 months old and the rooster hormones have fully kicked in, especially for one. He's full on crowing and doing the circle thing around the pullets and he has tried fertilizing...

One of my hens looks like a broody with chicks...only problem is that she doesn't have any chicks When I walk up to her she starts clucking and puffs out like a cotton ball, walking around like broodies do, it's really strange! And I stood back and watched her last night and she was in the...

I didn't get eggs gathered yesterday and this morning my "chronic broody" is sitting on them...could be she's just laying her egg...but I'm wondering if eggs left in the nesting box can trigger broodiness?

My mom is needing to clean the run where her old birds are because they need culled, they aren't sick but just old, feeble, so she's concerned that there may be lice or mites or viruses possibly that might infect her new chickens?? Any advice for her? I suggested Sevin dusting the run area...