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I have 10 hens (BR, RIR, SS, BA) and one rooster (BA) that are 1 year old. This spring I purchased 8 new chicks (why not?). At about 4 weeks old, I moved the chicks into a 2' x 4' brooder pen inside the coop (with a heating pad brooder which was awesome) in plain site (which caused a slight...

I have a one year old Black Australorp rooster that needs to go. I found a rooster among this year's new chicks that I would like to keep in his place.

One of my speckled Sussex, 9 mos old, yesterday morning appeared with a large (size of a jumbo egg or a little bigger) yellow clump frozen to her backside below her vent. Initially I thought she had sat on a broken egg or laid a shell-less egg and it just froze to her fluffy butt feathers. I...

We got our first eggs on Sept 10 - two on the first day! We've been getting one or two every other day. We have 4 different breeds. I've been searching 'egg color' charts to try to identify what I've got but the charts seem to vary widely. Some eggs have speckles in the color. Is that...

My flock just turned 16 weeks old (BA, RIR, BR, SS). I opened up the nesting boxes a couple weeks ago and thought they would start exploring them. I filled them with straw and a golf ball or two in each. I am not seeing any evidence that they are going in. I fluff up the straw and it's still...

At 2 1/2 weeks old, my one rooster chick is half the size of the others - and he has no tail feathers yet. I've watched him eating and drinking and there doesn't seem to be any issue with him and all the ladies. Is it normal for him to be so much smaller? He is a RIR. The other 16 chicks are...

We are new chicken owners and could not be more excited. We ordered 12 pullets and 1 rooster. Picked them up Apr 27. On day 2, the rooster died. On day 5 we found another mill that had chicks the same age as ours so we purchased 1 rooster and 4 more pullets. So we have 4 Rhode Island Reds...