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Saw this baby fly out of a nest while feeding my chickens, more like fall but glide, I didn’t touch it and tried not to stress it out but I don’t know much about wild birds and want to know if it’s too young to be out of the nest the parents seem to be “panicking” and one has a worm in its beak...

This is the rooster I’m keeping out of the 5 we have! We’re getting rid of the other four and keeping this boy. He is mixed, family friends hatched them (17) and gave them all to us! They have 2 Roos one Cochin and one Americana They have a LOT of hens lots of different breeds! He is a...

So we decided to keep one of the few roos that came of 17 un-sexed chicks we got, he is currently 5 months and I decided which one I want to keep, any tips on raising them? If possible I want to remain more dominant but I might need to pick him up and if possible have him not totally afraid, if...

I will have pictures tomorrow, i have 1 chicken from a hatchery (sadly all 14 of its lil chicky friends died most from a racooon problem that is now solved) and 14 we got from a friend, whk tried hatching chicks in a new incubator we are getting rid of all but 1 roo but were going to have to see...

A few weeks ago (June 23rd 2018 I think lol) a raccoon ( this raccoon and his “friends” was probably what got into my coop and killed all but 1 of my chickens but we got 17 chicks from a friend and I’m talking about them when they first went outside, not right away but after a few days maybe)...

I allowed myself ONE rooster! How do I choose! They are still young should I see who treats the hens better? Or who is nicer? Or should I just basebit off looks and if they are both very nice and treat the hens great HOW WOULD I DECIDE! How do YOU choose who’s a keeper?

I know you can keep ducks and chickens together but is there anything to be warned about? Do they eat the same feed? Do I need to have a little duck pool IN the run because we are free ranging our chickens and would with ducks. But some days we don’t free range if there was a predator or we were...

This chick is confusing me because a friend who is very experienced with chickens couldn’t figure it out! Can you? I found these pictures but if anyone needs more let me know the breed is part Cochin and part barred Plymouth Rock ( maybe Dominique not 100% sure on the Mom)

My 3 yr old hen is staying in the best box sitting on eggs I would think she’s broody but when I put my haven in she didn’t try to attack me. I’ve never had a chicken go broody she and her flock mates were my first chickens. And if she is broody she’s been doing it for a day or two should I try...

So this isn’t exactly a question but I just want to say what happened, rue ( my current profile picture) and all her flock have been killed by a mountain lion and it was a traumatizing experience because there were some legs we found and one of them were tied and weirdly I was so attached to her...

I have this beautiful little Americana chick, and it might be silly but I’m trying To name all my chickens, I only have layers and show chickens so why not also if you know what color variation she is please help me out because I’m not sure

We are currently repurposing an old shedmy Dad brought home for me into a new chicken coop, we’re moving all of our chickens into the new coop, so the 6 chicken coop we have will be empty, about how many seramas can you keep in a 6 chicken coop? We’re thinking of also getting a serama rooster if...

we want to free range our chickens during the day, but we have hawks, raccoons, foxes, Etc. (a few weeks ago we caught a fox tryna get into our chicken coop) we would obviously provide shelter but idk if that would be enough

I have 13 baby chicks who are 3-4 weeks old, ive seen that the older the chicks get you should decrease the temperature, but our lamp doesn't do that, the five we have outside when they where chicks we just had them in a bigger box so they can regulate their temperature, for our 13 we have a...

i currently have 5 barnyard mixes out side that are about 3yrs old and 13 baby chickens inside along with a friend with 17 newborns that I’m going to get to pick some from, I’m thinking of keeping and breeding seramas each one of my chickens ( other than the 3yr old because they aren’t rlly a...