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We found this very wrinkled egg in our barn this morning. It is a normal sized egg (2 1/2 inches) but the shell seems thick and the egg might be slightly heavier than normal. As far as we can tell, all of our chickens are acting normal (i.e., not acting sick), and all of the chickens which might...

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A number of our hens suddenly are suffering from bumblefoot (some bad, some not so bad). We never had this problem before, and the only things that have changed are: 1) we added ducks to our flock about four months ago. The ducks are messy so there's a lot more water/mud around. 2) About two...

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I'm pretty sure these are pullets. Good luck!

Bumping ....

We have a 6 month Easter Egger Roo, he's been limping and favoring his right leg for the last week or so. He doesn't want to put his weight on it. I can't identify any wound or injury, but it seems to hurt him when I touch the mid-lower part of the leg, or gently tug his toes. The injury seems...

She came from the same brood as the other quail, and they were all living together at first - until the fighting started. But that was a long time ago (over a year). One roo was really mean so they all turned on him. We nursed him back to health, then put one hen with him. When we tried to add...

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Background: We've had seven Coturnix quail living in three cages. They are about 14 months old. One coop has one male and two females, the 2nd coop has one male and one female, and the 3rd coop had two females (one blind). They were separated like this a long time ago because of fighting and...

Fun, yes, I can see that now! It was kind of stressful for me because I was worried about the poor chick all by itself - and then today I was pretty worried about the new chick too. But it seems like it will be ok now. We bought some feather dusters for them to snuggle in, and that seems to...

An update: 1) We decided to take only one of the two accepted chicks from the Showgirl. So we left one with her, and put the other one with the orphaned chick. 2) Showgirl was perfectly happy taking care of just one chick and she's being a good mama to it. (Protective and everything). 3) The...

Thank you. We did try confining her but she makes a huge fuss, and was very unhappy. Maybe I will try that again with her two remaining chicks. I'm trying to find someone in the area that has a broody hen that might accept this chick, or find some other chicks to put with it. We'd prefer to...

We have two other hens with new chicks (1 week old and 2 weeks old), but no other broodies. Do you think it is going to be too hard for the showgirl's two 2-3 day chicks to continue following her around (its very hot out now). They seem ok, but I am worried that they are not getting enough...

Our Showgirl went broody on a lot of eggs. Two had problems hatching and died. The mess attracted other hens, and they pecked at the eggs. So we moved the eggs to an incubator. The Showgirl stayed broody then tried to steal another hen's chick. That night a chick hatched and we gave it to her...

Thank you. We will try this.

Our little buff cochin bantam hen hatched her first brood of chicks 2 weeks ago. She is a very good mama, but her bottom has lots of caked on poop on it from sitting in the nest for so long. Normally we would just give her a bath, but we don't want the chicks to get wet from her feathers. We...