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Okay, this might be a stupid question to ask but I've looked it up and haven't found anything that quite answers my question... I need a way to introduce my teenagers to my adults and I'd like to give them space inside the adult run. Sectioning off the big coop just isn't an option, moving the...

3 days ago I found a chick flopped over on her back, "turtling" as I like to call it. She could not get up and was laying on a wing outstretched. I picked her up and she ran out of the coop but fell on her face and ended up back in the same position. So I picked her up and brought her in. We've...

Hi all! I've run into a bit of an issue... The only hatchery that I even sort of like the looks of their Blue Laced Red Wyandottes is Murray McMurray but they're already sold out for the season. The only breeders I can seem to find have either gotten out of BLRs in recent years, only sell...

So, I think it's a simple question, but I'm pretty sure it comes with a complicated answer... Also, do you decide which ones to keep when they're young, or do you grow them out first? Thank you, Madie

So I started out my operation on a little giant still air and fell in love. I know many people don't like using styrofoam or still air incubators but it's what has worked for me, and I can do an abundance of eggs in a cheap setup. I got my first one the summer of 2018. Since then I've bought two...

So, I have a coop of assorted chickens where I keep my bantams. It's got 2 d'uccle and/or d'anvers hens, 3 silkie hens, 1 sebright cross hen, 3 BLRW hens, 1 EE hen, 1 silkie rooster, and 2 sebright cross roos(I know, too many roosters, not enough hens, it's what I'm working with right now, and...

So I have this EE hen who's coming up to about a year old. About 3 weeks ago I found her lying on her side in the coop. I picked her back up on her feet and she seemed fine. The next day the same thing happened, except she wouldn't stand up at all. So I brought her inside, pumped her full of...

So, I've got 10 Coturnix quail chicks that I hatched, and most of them look like the typical white chicks(yellow body, most of them have a dark brown spot on their head). A few are all yellow, and there's 1 that's all white. They're starting to get their feathers in(1 week old), and those all...

Buttless(he's an ameraucana and has almost always been very close to the bottom of the hierarchy(in whatever flock he was in) and therefore has very rarely ever had tail feathers and we've never seen what his full tail feathers would look like) has been quarantined for a little over a month now...

I have a rooster who's been hobbling around on one foot for weeks now. We could see that it was swollen and figured that it was bumble but kept forgetting to catch him(he doesn't really love humans). Tonight we grabbed him, and he still doesn't have the typical scab but his foot is starting to...

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I haven't been able to get my silkies to go broody... I have 3 silkie hens and 3 other hens in a coop, and I left them to do their thing, just checking in on them in the coop, long enough for them to accumulate 20 eggs(that's like a week and a half of...

I know this question has been asked many times over the years, but I really think that the answer depends on a particular situation. I was planning on putting my 6 & 7 week old chicks outside today. It's been staying in the high 50s/low 60s at night, and they've been off the heat lamp for 3 or 4...

At this point, I've just accepted that Little Fire's personality lives up to his name even if his body doesn't. He is one of my first BLRWs and was my first rooster. But there are plenty more roosters now, and he's coming up on 3 years old. He's not the most human-friendly roo, but he's never...

Okay, so the last 2 years I've hatched BLRWs from my aunt's flock. Hers are all average/standard size. Last year I hatched out only 1, and she was tiny, not quite as small as a bantam, and she was normal size when she hatched out. I believe she is actually crossed with ameraucana during a...

We've had chickens for a few years now, and we have a lot of them(100+ constantly). We have hens who might go broody for a day or two, but nothing more than that. We got lucky and had a guinea hen who went broody for about a week... but that's the longest anyone has ever gone broody. I can't...

We've had problems with a fox walking through our yard occasionally for the last few months, but it's never gone after the chickens(we figured it was only a matter of time but we weren't going to do anything about it until it became a real problem). Today a hen came screaming up the hill and...

My chicks are 5 days old, they've been doing great. No overheating, I pushed the electrolytes at first, they've all been eating and drinking just fine. I had a chick with spraddle leg that fixed itself... I've been very surprised, to say the least. Everyone has been doing fine. 20 minutes ago...

The only blue-skinned adults that I have are my silkies, but this chick most definitely didn't come from them. Otherwise, I have plenty of blue legged chickens between EEs, a blue Andalusian, and crosses, but none of them are blue-skinned. Now in my 7-week old chicks, I have one chick(I think...

Last year we brought home 15 light brahmas... about half of them were roosters. They were about 15 weeks old, and we put them in with 12-week old barred rocks. We quickly separated the two after we found the barred rocks attack them. Approximately 4 dead roosters later, we realized that they...

When I came home last night there was a silkie egg that was zipped(although not completely around). It's still kicking and squirming but hasn't made it's way out yet and it's been a little over 24 hours(that I know of). Should I be worried? Thanks, Madie