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"Overly-attentive rooster" 🤣 He was a straight up jerk. Seriously though, thank you for the quick replies. Other then the missing feathers she seems okay and none of the other hens mess with her. So I guess we'll just wait and see what happens in the fall.

Hi everybody. So we have a hen who is lost a bunch of fathers due to our old rooster. He was dispatched about 3 months ago, and she has not been able to grow her feathers back. We also have noticed that she has not been laying for several months as well. She was the old roosters favorite, and as...

We are using 500ppm of colloidal silver mixed with water.

Thank you for all of the advice. We separated her as soon as she was found and is now enjoying her stay in the "chicken spa". She has the old brooder all to herself and is doing much better. We have been putting antibiotic stuff on her head. And she is eating, drinking and moving around and...

Yesterday one of our pullets got out of their run and into the "adult" run. She got attacked by some of the older hens. We found her trying to get back into her run. We brought her inside and my wife put some water with coloidal silver on her wounds. And then gave her some water. Is there...

I decided to call it on the remaining eggs. We'll try again in a few days when we get a new, and hopefully better, thermometer. As far as "Sheldon". She/he is doing good. The curled toes have straighted and look good. The poor thing is just alone in our big brooder.😕 But we've got 4 chicks...

We have a HHD 12 egg incubator. But I've seen it sold by other "companies". 🤷‍♂️ What is frustrating is that it came preset to 38° Celsius. But when I put my hydrometer from my humidor in it, that temp reading said 93° Fahrenheit. So I turned up the temperature of the incubator until I got a...

I got home from work this morning and moved the chick to the brooder. Her down was dry and the broader is nice and warm. When I put her in the box to transport her I noticed her feet. So now we're worried that she injured herself in the incubator. Any thoughts? Also while she was in the...

We might try that sock trick when we move her this morning to the broader.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, we are using an incubator. And we were keeping the eggs still, then the first egg hatched. I've been at work, but my wife told me this chick has bumped into the other 5 eggs and even pecked at one. I do have a pretty good thermometer in with the eggs. But the temp has...

This is our first time hatching eggs. We did six, and so far only one has hatched. Today is the end of day 22. We believe we had movement from a couple of the other eggs, but so far no pips. And we aren't sure if the "peeping" is coming from the eggs or "Sheldon". It took "Sheldon" almost 36...

Here's a picture of our "olive egger". The kids named her "Agent"🤷‍♂️ And here is hopefully a better picture of the blue egg. It sounds like she'll be laying today. So I guess we'll see. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Our flock of 11 hens have been all laying now for a couple months. We have 8 Barred Rocks, 2 brown eggers and 1 olive egger. Today this blue egg was found on the coop floor. Is it possible that our "olive egger" is actually a "blue egger"? 🤔 Above is the blue egg. Below is the blue egg next to...

Here is our rooster "Blackjack". Giving us his "Status Report".

Thank you everyone. So we're now up to 4 roosters with 11 hens. 🤔

Hi everybody! We need some help with figuring out if 14 week old is a hen or a rooster. When we got this batch14 weeks ago, we thought that "little fella" was the only rooster. We were wrong. There are three that have turned out to be roosters. However, "Little Fella" doesn't seem to have the...