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This weekend, I'm taking in/adopting this little Buff Orpington hen. Current owner says she's been picked on by her rooster/flock and has an eye injury; thinks the eye was scratched and it (the eye) moves a little slow. I haven't *knock on wood* had to deal with any injuries in my current flock...

So we just moved into a new house a couple days ago, where I needed a new coop to move my 11 birds into. But a deal to buy a coop from an acquaintance fell through, AND today was our first snow of the winter! Eeek! I'm panicking a little. I'm on course now to get a custom built coop made for...

Hello! So about 6 weeks ago, I had two broody hens - and they adopted 6 little 2-day old chicks that they were basically "fostering" for a friend of mine. Now, the chicks are 6 weeks old, and arguably totally ready to transport over to their permanent home. 1 of the 2 hens abdicated her...

Worst nightmare: I’m on vacation out of state, and my house sitter watching my chickens for me says something is wrong with Stella, my 13 wk old silver laced Wyandotte pullet. It’s so hard not being there, but I’m trying to determine what’s wrong from afar and see if there’s something my sitter...

Welp, a quick trip to the feed store to get pine shavings, and lo and behold I find a sickly chick in the chick trough.... store owner let me take her home for free to see if I can nurse her to health. Get her in a brooder now. I cleaned pasty butt off and stuck her under the heat panel, but...

Got what I believe is a silver laced Wyandotte who’s about 6 weeks old! I think she’s a pullet but wanted to know what you all thought. I don’t know if it matters, but she’s been eating a 20% chick grower feed since I brought her home (she was broody raised in my flock, so all the girls...

I’d found two stray day-old chicks (insane, I know) and my broody hen adopted them. It’s worked out perfectly. After just a couple of days of separation and bonding, mama and the two chicks integrated seamlessly with my 8 other hens. They’d free-range during the day, and then mama and babies...

On my way home from the dog park tonight, I saw two oddly round fuzzy dots along the side of the road... when I stopped, I saw they were two baby chicks!!!! I scooped them up and brought them home. What do you think? How old would you say they are? Any thoughts on breeds? Or sex (probably not)?

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this thread, but it seemed like the closest. Right now my partner and I are renting a home (in a fairly urban setting) from family where there were historically chickens and goats - so it was no big deal to renovate the old chicken coop and bring home...

Does any have Red Sex Link hens from Privett Hatchery? If so, can you post pictures? I'm curious about the feather coloring as chicks and as adults from their strain. Thanks!

Hi there - just went to go lock up my girls for the night (around 8pm) and found one of my 9 hens in the nesting box. Zoey’s a little fluffed up and I think her tail is pumping a little. (I haven’t picked her up to examine her yet) She’s a speckled sussex that just turned one year old. She and...

As usual last night after work, the chickies went to roost in the coop at sunset and I locked them up safe. This morning, I let them it to do they’re free-ranging around our fenced chicken yard, and I noticed that my 10 mo. old Delaware pullet, Donna, has a bunch of feathers missing around the...

My DH and I will be spending about a week away visiting family over the holidays, and sadly we have to leave our flock at home without us.:hit I've arranged for a friend to come daily to throw treats to the chickies and collect eggs. There's a chance that the chickens' water could freeze...

A constant chicken fever + heartbreak at all the talk of retired hens going to the “soup pot” / “freezer camp” = SURPRISE! I recently adopted these three lovely ladies. :love They’re 1-3 years old, and a couple of them haven’t quite finished their molt. In fact, one has it pretty bad because...

One of my hens (not sure which one) lays an egg that - unlike the other smooth, shiny ones - is frequently matte, coarse to the touch, a light pinkish brown. Sometimes, it looks like there are little white scratches in it. But this morning, I found one like it, but it looked extra weird and...

Last Tuesday Aug. 16th, the first of my pullets (Josephine, a black sex link) laid her first [tiny] egg! I believe it is her because she's the only one with a bright red comb/wattles and squatting right now. The following Saturday, a second egg! Then last Monday (a week ago from today) a third...

Okay, so here I am, first-time chicken mama. I've got five 3-week-old chick and one 2-week old chick in the homemade brooder, with their organic chick starter, clean water thanks to training them to use a nipple waterer, and warming themselves under their EcoGlow heat panel. Quiet, active...

I know it's still several weeks too early to know for sure, but I can't help but ask: Anyone screaming cockerel to you already? Claudia: 3 week old Barred Rock Ainsley: 3 week old Easter Egger Amelia: 3 week old Easter Egger Josephine: 3 week old Black Sex Link Donna: 3 week old...

Sigh. My babes are going to outgrow their brooder, aren't they? Curse you, chicken math. This is your fault. 3 somehow became 5 chicks. I am NOT to blame here. Okay - what's the easiest / cheapest way to give them more space at this point? They're 1 week old now.

Okay, a new mama's allowed to brag, right? I finally pulled my nice camera out to take some decent pics of my 6-day-old chicks (1 Barred Rock, 1 Black Sex Link, 1 Delaware, and 2 Easter Eggers) before they get any less poofy! They grow too fast! These are my first ever chickens and I am in...