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This is my first Silkie ever, didn't get my hopes up in it being a female so it's name is Sullivan! Super gentle and sweet, often falls asleep in my arms and enjoys my company! From a straight run bin of "bantams" at TSC, although it's much larger than my other bantams. I've read a lot about...

My Silver Duckwing bantam has always had this little piece sticking out of it's wing. It was purchased with many others all different ages from TSC roughly 6 weeks ago, so I'd age it at about 6-7 weeks. It never seems distressed, in pain, and can "fly" just fine. I thought it would molt out, but...

Took in a few new laying birds on Monday and this lady has been laying me beautiful green eggs every single day! I'd love to know what breed(s?) she is so that I can make sure to get more in the future. She has white earlobes as well!

This is our Sweetie- 12 weeks old and we still have no idea if it's a pullet or cockerel. I've looked for pointed saddle feathers and haven't found any, but it's got an attitude for sure! Just looking for opinions and hoping we can cross it off of the "to be processed" list!

Yesterday evening I introduced 8 laying hens into my younger flock. All is going well and everyone is learning their new pecking order, but I do have some small "issues" I need some advice with! My older hens will not go in the coop on their own so I make sure I put them in at night, and today...

I'm a new turkey owner to these sweet little guys- a blue slate tom and a royal palm hen. These two are in rough shape. Their feathers are in terrible condition, they do not roost at night so their breast feathers are basically gone. They came from basically a mud pit. Despite the poor...

Our new run will be accessible to both our chickens and our turkeys (blackhead lecture not necessary)- we recently got a lot of free 5' chain link fence in and would hate for it to go to waste. I don't really want to enclose the top with the fencing since the run is going to be fairly large and...

New turkey owner here- I currently have two poults that are roughly a month old and are still in their brooder. We are taking two older turkeys from my in laws, a Royal Palm Hen and a Blue Slate(?) Tom. My first concern is their enclosure- should I be worried about them flying over fencing? I...

My sister in law is rehoming several of her laying chickens and I'd love to help her out and add to my pullet/rooster ratio but my flock is much younger and not laying or ready to be processed yet. This Wednesday they will be 10 weeks old- I currently have 13-15 cockerels and 5-7 pullets. I plan...

Out of my 20 assorted chickens that I received, roughly 15 out of 20 are cockerels! I am fine with this, because all except 1 or 2 are going to the freezer. With that being said, I'm trying to find out which ones to keep that will (hopefully) breed with my pullets and give me decent meat or egg...

I have some aged poop- it sat under our coop for a year prior to us buying our house and we don't know what to do with it. I have read that putting it into the run with some dirt and straw is an option? We haven't built our compost pile yet, so we're not quite ready to compost. The poop is very...

I have four Pekin ducks which are currently on the front of my property in our barn with an enclosed run throughout the day. We have a large pond on the back part of our property and feel the ducks would really enjoy it down there, but I'm concerned about their safety and housing at night. I do...

I have two white wyandottes, I absolutely adore both of them. Both are 7 weeks old. They are both have some significant differences as far as size, feather growth, and tail shape but their comb/wattle development seems to be around the same. I'm hoping for a male and female pair! The obviously...

My brother-in-law gave my daughter these two turkey poults that he was given the same day and had no desire to keep them. He has no idea how old they are and neither do I, I am totally new to turkeys! I was assuming roughly a week-ish? They are active little guys, always running around, don't...

I'm having trouble sexing this little one-it's 7 weeks. Any suggestions or tips to help me figure it out would be appreciated!

Fairly sure this one is an Easter Egger, but confused on the sex! My other Easter Egger roo has a much more pink comb and is huge compared to my other chickens. This one is still bigger compared to my other chickens. All of them are 5 1/2 weeks old. I've heard you can go off coloring on Easter...

I'm a new member here and have posted a few threads already, all of which I have gotten great advice and information from. I am having a lot of trouble figuring out what breed some of my chickens are. Also, if comb development is something that I can lean on for determining sex (looking like a...

Sorry if this doesn't fall into the right category, but it seems fitting! I have (maybe) ten cockerals in my flock- I will be processing most of them but I'm not sure which one(s) I should keep for my ten ladies. There is an assortment, so I will list the breeds I have that are cockerals and...

Not sure that it takes an expert here, but I'm not very well seasoned in this area! New to the chicken game, so bare with me here- I have a few chickens that I'm not sure what the breeds are (they came from Murray McMurray's straight run assortment). They are all about 4 1/2 weeks old! The...

Would it be un-wise to process unwanted roosters regardless of breed? We purchased a large order of straight run assorted chicks hoping to process the roosters that were troublesome or if we had too many. After discovering some of the breeds, I've read that they fall under the "poor" category of...