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So of course two days before my Cayuga ducklings arrive from Metzer's both my Cayuga and Khaki Campbell ducks go broody... The ducklings arrived today, what are the chances that I could give them to my broody mamas and they would take care of them? If they've only been broody a couple of...

So some A$$hat did a drive by dumping of this rooster and he sustained some type of head injury in the process. We're trying to nurse him back to health but we're not getting our hopes up. Quarantined with lots of quiet, dark rest, eating scrambled eggs a little and taking water from a...

I have two bourbon red hens sitting on some eggs that are supposed to hatch tomorrow. My question is whether or not I can leave the tom in the same enclosure with the newly hatched poults? He's very gentle and been around other small birds but not in enclosed spaces. I've read that some folks...

So I had a chicken hatch two turkey eggs on the 4th of July and she is doing a beautiful job raising them. Yesterday I had ONE turkey egg hatch in my incubator and I was wondering if you all think I might be able to put this poult in with the hen and week old poults and she may raise this one...

Hi all, I bought a "mating pair" of Bourbon Reds in November (these are my first turkeys) and have been all over the place in trying to figure out the gender of each one. I have gone back and forth as to which is the boy or girl or they're both boys or both girls... I am currently of the...

So I just found a relatively local farmer that grows and mixes grain for animal feed. At $8.50 for 50 pounds it definitely has an appeal especially since Layena has gone up to $16 for 50 lbs. I should add that my chickens also free range all day and that I have no idea what the "Poultry...

Hi all, I had a chicken die in my arms today and don't know why. She had been acting normally until about 4 days ago when we had a hawk scare. I don't know if she was the particular hen that was the target of the hawk but that night she was the first one on the roost so I assumed she was. The...

So I just opened my nesting boxes to check for eggs and I found one of my two year old Black Australorps upside down in the nesting box. It scared me at first because it looked like she was headless (it was her vent sticking up). She hopped up when I touched her and behaved "normally" but I...

Hi All, I have a broody that has been sitting on 10 eggs but only two hatched (yesterday) and I was wondering if it would be safe to add a half dozen chicks that we're hatched this past Wednesday. I know you can easily add them if their the same age but I don't know if some being 5 days...

I'm curious what breed this young lady is. When I bought her as a day old chick I thought she was a golden laced wyandotte but I'm pretty sure she's not. Any thoughts?

Ha! I just had to post this. It's a BCM egg at day 16 in the incubator. It's not the clearest picture but you get the idea. Immediately after the picture was taken I chucked it out into the street and it exploded (more so than a normal egg would). And the smell was just lovely The...

I'm not sure how long she's had it (I don't think it would have been very long or I would have noticed it) but I have a 5 month old pullet who's face has swelled on one side. My wife and I just noticed it this morning. Any thoughts? She's a flighty little thing and I wouldn't rule out that...

So about a month and a half ago I did some flock restructuring and my hens laying dropped from 6 or 7 eggs per day (7 layers at the time) to 0, 1, or 2 if I was lucky. 6 weeks later I'm only up to 2 or 3 per day with maybe a 4 egg day two or 3 times since the restructuring. How did I...

I have 5 EE chicks about 10 weeks old and I'm pretty sure on the gender of most of them but I thought I would run it past the experts here. This way I know how many more pullets I have room for. I'm pretty sure this is a pullet, We can call her #1 And I think this one's a pullet, too (#2)...

I have a pullet around 22 weeks old who started laying at about 19 1/2 weeks. She laid every day for two weeks straight (although never in the nest box), laid a GIANT double yolker, then a soft shelled egg, and now nothing for about 4 days. I know pullets can go through some variations in...

I'm just looking to pick up a couple of green/blue egg layers (with good dispositions ). I'm near Wallkill, NY.

So my young'uns are 7 weeks old. I've got one Barred Rock that I'm nearly certain is a pullet and two Easter Eggers that I'm thinking (hoping ) that I've got one of each. I think the lighter colored EE is a cockerel and the darker I have been leaning pullet but I'm starting to wonder. Anyone...

So I'm picking up a few full grown chickens this week but I don't have a clue as to how to get them from the farm to my house. I've built a chicken tractor for quarantine time so I could load that into the back of my truck but I don't know if that would give them too much space (and no seat...

When I got up this morning to check on the new chicks I found one Barred Rock chick who's yolk sack came back out. It was the last one hatched yesterday and seemed to be doing ok. I've cleaned it off and put a little neosporin on it and have her/him isolated in the brooder in their own little...

So as I'm securing the fence on my new run I notice something that wasn't there two days ago when I first put up the fence. In some soft dirt inside the run I saw this. I believe it to be a coyote track. Our neighbors had two fawn dismembered behind their barn AC believes it to be coyotes...