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I am getting 2 pea hens and she has 2 available I can choose from. I have a purple male and am getting a purple female for him. I am also getting a second hen and can get either a black shoulder split to purple which looks close to the purple or an IB split to purple which has a lot of color...

Today I got a huge light colored egg. Huge in comparison to the average chicken egg. Pinkish tan and pretty good sized. I have my peas in with some chickens and I do have Ameracaunas in there, but none lay non blue eggs that I know of. Do yearling peahens start laying that young? Or did...

I bought 2 pea chicks a month ago and was told they were male, but he did say the one may possibly be female. I think they are 3 months old and one is coloring out much more in the neck and is slightly bigger. They were hatched together and have the same parents. Would you say the one with...

Hi, I have a 3 year old hen with a swelling on one side of her face. She has had it for 2 months and no other chickens have gotten, it, so I don';t believe it is contagious. She acts fine, eats, drinks fine, runs around and in no way appears sick at all. The side of her face is hard as a...

I have been raising Blue and Black Copper Marans for 4 years. I have a pen of Black Copper, a pen of Blue coppers and an egg laying group. A relative asked me to hatch out some eggs for her and she didn't care from what. At the time, my BCM's and Blues weren't laying consistantly and since she...

I got some straight run chicks from a breeder and I can't remember if he said they were lavender or blue. Can you tell me which this looks like? Also does it look like a pullet or cockerel?

Do you have mice in your coops? I did for the first time this year and I just about couldn't stand it! I was so creeped out and having a hard time going in there! I'm in the North, so we have to shut our coops up all winter and feed in there. I would open the door in the am, and the feeders...

I have 2 silkies that are approx. 12 weeks old or so. One has crowed, so I know I have at least one rooster. If I scratch their backs, one does the butt up thing that hens do. Or do roosters do this also? I have found comb size don't matter in these since I have one black one with a big...

For pick up. May be able to ship to close areas and only by Express. I need to find homes for 3 extra Black Copper Marans Roosters I have. They are Wade Jean line and have been coloring out correctly. They have leg feathering and seem to be correct in all aspects I know of. They are free...

Hi, I have a 2 month old chick that isn't eating or drinking and is quiet and lethargic. She is fine as far as breathing, no respiratory symptoms or anything like that. She just sits puffed up and not real interested in eating. I have separated her from the group of chicks and syringed in...

I ordered some of those nipple waterers and some other things May 30th from Black Creek Poultry and still haven't received my order. When I email them, I don't get any response. According to my Paypal account, the transaction took place and they got the money just fine, so that isn't the...

I have some 4 week old silkie chicks that are out in a tractor/run combo. The house is an uninsulated dog house connected to a run. The temp right now is 46 degrees, which isn't too bad... but sometime in the night it's supposed to dip down into the 20's. Do I need to bring them in or...

I know, I've read I won't know for sure until someone lays an egg or crows, but are any of these chicks showing any sex characteristics at all, either way? None have the long feathers behind the head. A few seem to do the rooster sparing and then those same ones will hide under some of the...

Sorry, I don't have a picture and I never saw it myself. But my husband said on the road that goes by our house, he saw a chicken (he thinks) that had what looked like a mullet to him and it puffed up in the neck and under jaw with air and made a weird noise as it exhaled, almost like a grouse...

Well I made it through my first winter with the chickens and all went even better than I thought! But now that the weather is nicer and maybe some chicken hormones are pumping, my rooster has been challenging me lately. I'm not sure why else, if not hormones... I spend about the same amount...

I have a cochin rooster and 3 SLW hens and 3 Black sex link hens. I only have one cochin hen. Anyway, I wanted to hatch out a few chicks this spring to get a few more and because you guys make it sound so fun! I was hoping to do it by broody hen incubation. I have chickens for pets and egg...

What should the RH be in the coop? When I search, all I find are humidity ranges for incubators. Is there a range to be in or a number that it shouldn't exceed out in the coop? I finally found a LaCrosse thermometer that tells outside humidity, so I can see the temp and humidity of the coop...

I have 3 SL Wyandottes and 3 Black sex links and the one little red X that lay. I know the small white one is from the little red cross bred hen because I saw her lay it. The others, I never see, but see them in the nesting box, usually 2 or 3 at a time. I have a smaller dog house in the...

I'm not sure what section this should go in... But I'd like to ask your opinions on this Cochin hen. A little background, late last August someone dropped 3 chickens at our farm. One rooster and 2 hens. I am curious if age can be told by the hen's looks? This is my favorite hen, big Pearl...

How fast after a change of feed would a person see a change in egg quality? I am an hour from a feed store and didn't have time to go last weekend. A friend of my husband's sold him a bag of scratch that he had. It contains, wheat, oats, black sunflower seeds and corn. He feeds this mixed in...