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I sold some 4 week old chicks to someone and after two weeks, most of them came down with coccidiosis and died. Adult chickens in the same coop also died from coccidiosis. The buyer told me that the adults ate some bloody poop from the chicks and that is how they got it from the chicks. She...

Is it too early to tell the gender on my Appenzeller Spitzhaubens? I have two chicks that were hatched about 6 weeks ago. Chick A: Chick B Not sure which one this is! They move around and then I can't tell them apart

I have 3 Langshan chicks that I need to figure out the gender on. Chick A: looking like a male to my eye. Chick A: Side view of the one up on the bar Chick B in front and Chick C in back: I am leaning to Chick B is female and Chick C is male Chick B in front and Chick C in back...

I have a chick that always seemed to want to sit down and was very docile. Now that it is older (6 weeks) it definitely walks differently and will hobble just enough to eat and then lay back down. Could people take a look at video of it walking and let me know what you think? I am not that...

I have a broody hen that I will be placing fertile eggs under tonight or tomorrow night. Should the eggs be incubated to "start them" first or should I just stick them under her? They are shipped eggs, so there will be a few guaranteed that have problems. I just did a batch from this egg...

Does anyone have some pictures or ideas for a good broody hen enclosure? I might be able to place it in my chicken run if it isn't too large so she has a safe space and thus won't need to go too crazy with predator proofing. I was going to have her just stay with the other chickens, but when...

I have 5 eggs that will hatch in 6 days. My hen started going broody last week and now seems very serious about it. Does she needs eggs that are new or can I slip these incubated eggs under her tonight? These are my expensive eggs (opal legbars) and I REALLY don't want them to die! But it...

I was wondering how I should arrange the eggs for lockdown. Can they be touching? If they are touching, should they be touching end to end or side to side? I know that the chicks rock the egg to get it to be in the right orientation, so I am worried that I need to keep them from touching so...

I would like to add one of these birds to my little flock (limited to 8 chickens) in order to have a white egg layer. Could people that are familiar with these breeds give me some general advice on the differences between them? Currently I have a buff orpington, dominique, barred rock...

The inner circle line on each egg is the Day 7 air cell line and the second circle line is the one at Day 14. Do these look like good air cell changes? I found it interesting that very few of them changed evenly and most grew just on one side. Sorry for the picture not showing all sides...

I have windows that are sort of like this one. Image from my pet chicken: https://static3.mypetchicken.com/images/product_images/Popup/MPC-068.jpg What is a good way to secure them open so that in a high wind situation they do not flap around? I did not make the windows super sturdy, so they...

Available: 1 day old male Opal Cream Legbar chick hatched today! Hatched eggs from https://www.facebook.com/TarBabiesPoultry/ We are located in Columbia, MD and can't ship just one chick so it has to be picked up. Only one egg hatched (my first time hatching) and I do not want to buy companion...

I am incubating shipped eggs and stood them up in an egg carton instead of laying them down on their side. My incubator has an automatic turner, but the eggs have to be on their side in order to use it. I am going to just gently tilt them 3x a day (legos under side of carton) and do quarter...

I can't find any online reviews on the nurture right 360 incubator. Has anyone used this? What did you think?

I am loving the poop trays with PDZ. It makes poop cleanup so much easier and SOOOO much less disgusting. Instead of scraping moist slimy stuff, I just scoop out powder balls. No smell and no ooze. My problem is that the cat litter scoops all seem to have pretty big openings and some of the...

Is it possible to economically keep a waterer from freezing with solar power? I didn't have much luck in understanding some of the articles/posts on DIY solutions. Is there any premade kits or items that I can buy that aren't commercial grade and very expensive? My coop does not have power...

I would like to add dry leaves to my run floor periodically throughout the year. Any recommendations on what to do with the leaves falling now so that I have them later in the year? I saw someone say they store them bagged in a shed, but I do not have covered storage for them. I also can not...

We had an old wheelbarrow that had the handle break and we couldn't repair it. The wood handle didn't match the pre cut ones at Home depot and the bolts were so rusted we would have had to repair that. also, I think the tire was bad! So, I decided to take the parts that I could scavenge from...

I haven't painted the nest boxes, roost, poop trays, or interior walls of our new coop. How important is this? It seems like it will take a LOT of time and paint to do this. Other than making a tidy/pretty looking coop, is there much real benefit? The only reasons that I remember other...

We stalled out on our coop progress over the summer and finally got back to it this weekend! Between the heat, humidity, mosquitoes and disagreement on how the walls and floors should attach, we just avoided any work on the coop. Our marriage was stronger for this :) I solved our disagreement...