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It doesn't look like she's able to turn at all in there. This is the last of 14. It was pipped yesterday morning when I checked at 9 am among with all of the others that were all completely hatched by 3 am. I have peeled some she'll and applied coconut oil and made more room on the pip hole...

I am in the process (finally!) of adding electric wires to a chainlink fence. I was originally going to use a solar-powered charger, but my fabulous hubby is running electric out to the coops as we speak. I am going to return the previously purchased solar charger and was thinking of getting the...

Can someone identify this nasty for me? The first pic shows a shriveled one because they were in the poop tray that's filled with PDZ, and I think that dehydrated it. They were both dead when I was scooping poo this morning. I just don't have any real life experience with identification of...

So, this little mille fleur d'uccle was one of our first broody-hatched babies. She was a little slow and needed help keeping up with mom and the others for the first few weeks. I would periodically have to find her and put her with the group. She had been my only broody-raised baby I could...

Stayed outside the coop last night and I had to carry him in. Gave nutridrench and heate a little scrambled egg last night. Poo is green and scant, not good at all. He doesn't want to drink, so I'm dropping water occasionally. He looks more lethargic this morning. I don't know if I should try...

Has anyone tried using steel 5-gallon buckets for the hanging feeders with eye bolt in the bottom? We love these feeders made with plastic buckets, but the squirrels have been chewing through the lids. I can't keep up with the cayenne pepper. It rains, and then they start chewing the rims...

My Ruby had a slipped tendon at 10 weeks old. Her toes were scrunched together (in particular the outside toe was underneath the middle of the foot) and she was fairly drastically splayed on the right side, unable to use her right leg at all and beginning to splay on the left. I hobbled and...

This little pullet was sold to me as a cream legbar, and I was skeptical at the time because of the facial markings on the chick (and there were several others that were marked exactly the same). Now she is five weeks old with greenish legs and no crest. EE or something else?

Can someone give since insight as to the symptoms and diagnosis of slipped tendon? Is therw an obvious wad of tendon fwlt/seen someplace in the leg?

I have a nine week old pullet with heavily feathered feet who has been limping and lying down a lot. I thought perhaps she had a little sprain, so I let her be. Then, yesterday morning, I happened to be outside when I heard her screaming and all the big girls were after her. I put her in a crate...

I'm looking for advice. I have a broody with two new chicks that are four days old. She took them outside yesterday for the first time, and wants to protect them but isn't being respected. I am keeping close watch and have seen two other hens get too close to her and the chicks, and she puffs up...

Got these babies last night from a local breeder as I wanted colored egg layers. She says they are a Whiting True Blue and a Cream Legbar. When I look up Legbar photos, the chicks I see do not have these additional markings on their faces. All of her females had them. Is this a typical trait...

I set eggs under a broody a week and two days ago. I'm am absolutely positive the rooster is mating with the hens that laid the eggs. However, when I candled them at one week, not a single egg was developing. I feel bad for the broody and will probably just buy her a couple of chicks to raise...

Apparently last year's chicks are all broody breeds. I was excited when the first became broody because I was happy I would have to.buy an incubator if I wanted to hatch eggs. But now, I feel like all I do is break broodies. One goes broody and it's like it triggers the motherly instinct of...

I am hatching the following under a broody as a gift for a friend who wants them. I am wondering if any of them will be sex links. They are blue Silkie rooster X: Buff laced Polish WCB Polish Silver Duckwing OEGB Silver Sebright MF d'uccle Porcelain d'uccle

A friend asked me to hatch some of my eggs for her. They allow their chickens to free range and roost in the rafters of their barn. It occurred to me that might be an issue since my rooster is a silkie. What are the chances these chicks will be able to fly? Possible hens are polish, OEGB...

I posted a couple of weeks ago and was told to wait a couple of weeks. I'm pretty sure this is a little boy, but it would be my eighth silkie boy I would have to rehome. Ugh. I haven't had any problems finding homes for them, but I would love to have a silkie pullet. Please let me know what you...

Husband let the girls out into the chain link to oeck around this morning. When I went out this afternoon to check on them, I noticed my FBCM laying in the grass next to the fence (the "greener side"). She's a very active girl and one of several fence jumpers I have. I believe she must have...

First time hatching with broody. She's a fantastic mom with five littles. One particular chick doesn't seem to keep up and gets left behind, chirping for mom. At first I thought perhaps she couldn't see well, but when there are things in front of her, she owns at them. She was the last to...

I know it's a little early, but I've got a clean shot of the comb and not sure if this is a lot of development.