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She’s also tucking her head into back feathers and sleeping QUOTE="trudes19, post: 22497621, member: 434883"] Hi We bought 5 laying hens from a local farmer. 2 days later decided to get one more. On introduction she was getting picked on more than I’ve experienced. 2 days later I noticed mucous...

Hi We bought 5 laying hens from a local farmer. 2 days later decided to get one more. On introduction she was getting picked on more than I’ve experienced. 2 days later I noticed mucous nose, lethargy, and some “knotted” dirty feathers. Like she needs a bath. I don’t want to give her a bath as I...

Ontario Canada.... stores are shutdown, but ya I think I could get that a farm co-op for curbside pick up.

I can't remember exactly what i used.... something that someone recommended on here before. It was essential oils i know that... and I knew it probably wouldn't work as well as a product. My next question is, wouldn't they die without having a host to eat from? Do you think its safe to get...

hi there last summer we had a few hens and they unfortunately got mites. The coop I discovered at night was full of them! We got the girls out into a new area and then eventually gave the hens away when I couldn't get a handle on the mites naturally. I made an assumption that all the mites...

Are these mites? 2 weeks ago we had a chicken die... then another a couple days later. I noticed these bugs on the last one. I removed remaining hens from the coop, cleaned them and they have survived. The coop still has mites or whatever these are 2 weeks later. I was hoping without the...

If anyone could give me an idea of what happened and also what I should do with my remaining 5 birds. Last night my 1.5 year old barred rock, couldn't make the jump into the coop so I picked her up and put her in. Next morning, she came out with the others but then stayed in the pen right...

I posted a week ago and the consensus was most likely pullets but here they are a week older (approx 8 wks?). There is one small cockerel in the back ground of one of the pics that I will be exchanging this week because we cannot have roosters here. So I want to make sure the others are...

ok thanks! I'm going to post more pics later this week because I have to go back to the farm to exchange.

They are from a local (in Ontario) organic farm. We bought them with the friendly agreement that we can bring back any cockerels for pullets. I assumed the farmer would have helped in sexing but he wasn't sure and I didn't do my research about the colours. My guess is #2 and 3 are 6-7 weeks??

Please check out my 3 barred rocks that I posted this morning. Was just going to pm you the pics but posted to everyone instead. Thanks!

I know there are many threads about the same thing and few people that said to message them about genders. But I'm posting this hopefully to get a few educated responses, as we need to switch any possible cockerels to pullets asap. Thanks so much in advance. d

The 2 on top are the ones in the back on the second photo. The front one, I just posted and so far sounds like a roo. What about the other two? Will have to exchange the little roo so far.

another pic

Unsure of age of this barred rock, but would love to know if this is a rooster, as we can exchange with the farmer for a pullet.