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Went out to collect eggs today and all the eggs that aren’t under a broody hen were cracked open, shells still there, no hurt chickens... what the??? Did a predator do this?? If so what would it be?? We have a livestock guardian dog, four roosters, two broodys in the coop round the clock and...

Hi friends! So we have a real “hippie” homestead situation here at Bamburgh Farms!! Lol We have a flock of about 35 chickens, 5 ducks & 3 Nigerian Dwarf doelings (and previously a goose named Horace as well! ) that all live in harmony, free ranging and eating, drinking and bunking together on...

I couldn’t get a picture bc one of my hens was trying to eat it thinking it was kitchen scraps and I got her away from it and scooped it into a sack with the straw it was in... don’t want ANYONE getting a taste for raw eggs! We don’t know who laid it and we have never had one before. It was laid...

Two Questions from a chicken newbie: - I’m in Ohio, I have six 6 week old chicks inside and want them to go outside when they can but obviously it’s getting cold at night some nights right now here... lower than 20 is normal for this time of year... when can they safely go in with the main...

I noticed this morning that one of our hens has a sore eye. Her other eye is fine and she has no other symptoms but she can’t see out of it. None of the other flock members are sick or injured. We are chicken newbies, can anyone tell us what’s wrong with her eye and what we can do to help her...

Hi chicken friends!! We here are Bamburgh Farms are SUPER excited!! We have successfully hatched our first chicks in our incubator that we traded a rooster for! Lol Out of 12 viable eggs at lockdown, we have 6 happy healthy 3 week old chicks! 4 are EE chicks and 2 are from brown eggs (we think)...

We are hatching our first ever eggs in the incubator right now and our first chick hatched yesterday morning. He was just now fully dry and we have 6 others hatched out into the incubator, one egg with a beak out and chick on the way and 5 unhatched eggs, I had checked him a half hour before and...

It has very tall legs like my young Bielefelder rooster and has long tail feathers. He/She is black and white. Hen or roo?? Breed ideas?? Thanks in advance!!

We are having some abnormalities in our egg shells and are newbie chicken folks, can y’all tell us what we need to be adding to/taking out of their diets and please tell me that weird spider-y looking mark in my EE green egg isn’t a peck mark!!

My hens have stopped letting my rooster mount them!! Much to his dismay!! Lol What could be happening? They have never spurned his advances before!

She wasn’t feeling well so we separated her from the flock a few days ago, in an XL dog crate in a very low lit area of the garage with food and water with Corid etc. Today she seems really improved but her comb has turned a purple-ish tint on its edges? Is it not enough light or something...

As newbies to the crazy chicken world, our question might be stupid and probably is! Lol However, our rooster, Herald, has a naked patch on his chest and we don’t know if that’s okay or normal or what!! We have had to treat him for several issues since he was given to us a little over a month...

Hello Friends!! I recently got an incubator from a guy down the road and I have some questions!! Any help at all is appreciated as this will be my first time trying to hatch chicks!! It is a Farm Innovators Pro Series Digital Incubator Model 4250. It did not come with the two red vent plugs. Can...

How do you tell which hens are laying and which ones are not, without a body examination of the hens in question, because this new poultry Momma isn’t inspecting anyone’s “vent” unless not doing so would result in death!!! Lol

We got 4 White Leghorns from a guy who I think may be even more “green” then we are... and let me tell ya friends that is pretty darn green!! Lol He said all of these are hens but the one is either the most scraggly hen I have ever seen or it’s a young cockerel!! Lol What do you think?

As I stated in our introduction to the group, we are brand new newbies at this chicken raising thing!! Lol So, we need some help with flock integration!! We have two flocks that we are wanting to integrate into one extra large coop. Currently our “main” flock of 5 hens, which consists of 1 Black...

Rob, Tiffany & Lincoln, of Bamburg Farms, located in the mountains of WV., here!! We are happy to introduce ourselves and say hello!!! We are trying our hand at small homesteading on 11 acres in Wayne, WV. and we welcome your input and assistance with all of our new found chicken adventure!!

We are new to the world of keeping chickens and a nice lady gave us 5 “hens” for free to try our hand at it. She gave us 3 currently laying hens and two RIRs that are not yet laying. She said they were both due to lay this fall but one of them is bigger than the other and is starting to act...