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Yes, we have 8 more girls that are 5 weeks younger, so they are 7 weeks old. We'll be integrating them soon.

Thanks....when you you put the younger girls in with the other 3? (The older ones are twice the size of the pullets.)

Dear BYC-ers. We really need your help. We're building our first flock and had the worst luck with our original batch of chicks - 7 out of 8 were boys. We found good homes for 5 of the boys, and we currently have 2 cockerels and 1 pullet that are 12 week olds in a spacious coop and run (that...

I just had a lot of luck rehoming 5 baby roosters by posting on local chicken owner groups on social media. (I would end the post by asking for suggestions of where else I should post and got some great leads that way too.) I met some lovely people in my community too, a couple of whom have...

FIVE WEEKS LATER - UPDATE: You all called it correctly. With the worst luck ever, only #2 is female. Everyone else was crowing. We found good homes for all but two of the very spoiled cockerels. Now at 12 weeks the two we kept, along with the pullet, are still very sweet.

Thanks so much. I'm not really seeing nits.

We got this little Welsummer girl a few days ago from a local farm, along with a few other female chicks. She is a bit smaller than the others and has been pecked a bit. When we were picking her up we noticed this on her side. Is this lice or molting or pecking or something else? What should...

Thanks again for the reply. We rinsed again with saline and it seems to be looking better. Sorry for the stupid question --- do chickens react to insect stings? We seem to have a lot of wasps and other inscets that sting in our yard at the moment.

No other symptoms, but will look in her mouth

Hi all, We're completely new at all of this. One of our favorite chickens has a puffy eye. She/he is a 10 week old Ameraucana mix from our neighbors hatched out chickens. We noticed her/his eye puffy yesterday and reading another thread here rinsed it with saline solution. It appears to be...

Thanks! That's what we are kind of thinking too. I still want to hold out a tiny bit of hope for #5 because while it has a comb, it's not dark like the other two and it doesn't have the wattle coming in under its chin. You might not be able to tell from the pics, but 6, 7, and 8 have...

Wow, what a helpful thread. Here are our 7 week olds. We have 8 of them - numbers 1 and 4 are crowing, so we're pretty sure about them. This is a "Heinz 57" flock hatched from my neighbors' chickens and they have Black Copper Marans, Welsummers, Araucanas, and Ameraucanas and mixes who lay...