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Hello, I have a broody hen who has been sitting on a clutch of eggs for 10 days. They were developing normal as of last night. Today, much to my dismay, I found her sitting in the WRONG nestbox by accident. The eggs she had been sitting had gone cold. It is 60 degrees here today and I have no...

I bought 10 day old maran chicks 3 months ago and all have been fine until yesterday. My favorite one (of course) is strangely off balance and can't even walk up the coop stairs without stumbling backwards. She walks with a strange exaggerated step, falls sideways when laying down, and splays...

I have 13 hens. Every so often, one of my nests will be covered in yolk. No remnants of any shell, no cracked eggs. Just a yolk in the nest. Why would this be happening? I've never figured out who is laying it. Thanks!

I slipped some babies underneath my silkie hen, who took right to them. She had been broody for 23 days. My question is, when will she stop acting like she is incubating them like eggs? For three days, she has stayed put on her nest with them under her. I take them out to make sure they eat...

I bought two sweet baby chicks from an "assorted" Atwood's chick bin for my broody hen to adopt (and she LOVES them!). Can anyone make a guess at what breed they are? I'm just curious :) one is black, one is brown. Pics below. I also bought two yellow chicks but I am assuming those are white...

I have a poor sweet silkie hen who is sitting on some eggs to hatch. I have been taking good care of her...hand feeding her and bringing water to her. But today, I noticed she is wheezing when she breathes. It sounds terrible. I got her out to examine and she sneezed a bunch. It sounds like she...

I have two cute silkies who celebrated their first birthday today and STILL, to this day, neither one has ever crowed/danced like a rooster NOR have they ever squatted or laid an egg like hens. What is the deal? I have a third silkie who I bought with them from the same hatch and she laid at 6...

I have a week and a half old olive egger chick who was fine until I came home from work today! She was in a group of 12 babies and today she was the only one who was not moving around happily when I arrived home. She is very weak. Unable to walk or hold head up. She seems stiff and can't...

Hello! I am a chicken newbie with a question about my silkie's silly behavior. While she sits in the nest to lay, she likes to cover her back with hay. Sometimes I'll go out and she will be just COVERED in hay! It's hilarious and strange. Why does she do this? Is this a common behavior?

I have a bully hen who keeps mounting my other hens like a rooster would do. I wouldn't care, except she pecks at them viscously and pulls out their feathers as she does it! I didn't get a roo purposely because I didn't want my hens to feel bullied...but now I have this problem hen who has...

What is wrong with my hen's comb? It's got scabs and dried blood and it's peeling. I don't think she gets picked on as she IS the bully in the group. The weather has not gotten below 50 degrees here. Is there something I can give her to make it normal again? Her behavior seems fine.

My silkie has gone broody and I have no rooster so I can't allow her to stay this way. She acted distraught when I took her fake wooden egg away from her today. This is my first time dealing with this. Any advice on how to bring her back to her normal self? When I bring her outside with the...

My first chickens started laying a month ago. I have ten standard sized and three silkies. One of my silkies turned out to be a rooster and I am wondering if he is actually mating with my standard sized hens (barred rocks). He's much smaller and I've never seen him mate with them. In fact the...

Is my 25 week old silkie a hen or a rooster? It's behavior is totally gender neutral! No crowing like my other silkie roosters the same age, no squatting or laying like its fellow pullets. It does have some streamer like feathers on its crest that make me think rooster... But I don't know...

Hi all, I bought my first flock of pet chickens (as chicks) this March and they are now 21 weeks old. I wanted my chickens to be my pets so after a TON of research about the friendliest chicken breeds, I decided to buy ten silkies to be my main pets and a few black australorps (just for a few...

Anyone want to help me guess if these silkies are hens or Roos? I started with TEN silkies and one by one they've crowed! Now, 21 weeks later, I'm down to these two and hoping so much one of them is a hen. One is splash and one is white.

Hi everyone, I have three barred rock hens and one of them grew a large comb and waddle seemingly almost over night and they are huge!!!! The hen's comb is twice the size as my rooster's. Just wondering, do BR hens typically have combs this size? im just shocked at how big it is! Hoping she is...

I just raised my first chicken flock of 16 hens. They are perfectly healthy and I want them to stay that way! I was warned about taking in outside chickens, but I was offered a free silkie pullet from a stranger and I took her. As soon as I got her home I noticed she was EXTREMELY thin and slow...

I am getting sooo impatient for my first egg! I have 14 hens, different breeds so it's hard to expect them to lay at the same time. Anyways, they are 20 weeks old and I have a big black hen that I observed squatting and the rooster actually was trying to mate with her this morning. This is the...

I have a mixed flock of 5 barred rocks, 5 Easter eggers, and 7 silkies. All hens. They are ALL 20 weeks old, and everyone but the silkies looks big and beautiful, you can tell they are maturing and will be laying soon. But my Silkies are tiny little things and I have a feeling they are no where...