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Please if you have experiences with housing and helping your disabled chickens who can’t live outside with the flock, share your stories. How can you let them suffer and slowly die? That’s barbaric. This was intended to be a PET post.

I took in a disabled chick a couple months ago. He had a slipped tendon that couldn’t be fixed. He can’t walk but he gets around by flinging himself with his good leg and flapping. We’ve tried slings, round donut beds, etc but he hadn’t tolerated anything. He’s the most comfortable making...

Can Muscovy be sexed by appearance at 7 weeks old? There’s a big size difference with these two. Their feet are the same size and they are feathering in at about the same rate. The larger one is more friendly and loves to come up to me.

Thank you!

Hello! My hen hatched and raised some babies that are about 5 or 6 weeks old now. They’re very independent and she isn’t calling them over much anymore. The hen started doing the egg song a couple days ago randomly. It’s a few times a day. She just stands in the middle of the yard and sings her...

Here is my yellow EE baby grown up now. She has brown specks in the wings and hackles. Hard to see though.

It’s a pure silkie. All the silkie mixes I’ve seen have smooth feathers, not the regular silkie fluff.

He is definitely a mix. Looks like he has some Wyandotte in him.

If it has a pea comb it’s a dark Brahma.

Easter eggers can come in many colors as they’re a mixed breed. I have an almost pure white one that was very light as a chick, and a blue one.

Yes it appears to be an Ameraucana or at least an Easter Egger if they don’t carry true ameraucanas. It has dark legs and a beard. The baby patterns can vary a little bit.

The blue and white one is my runner. She is molting now so she doesn’t look super great. I have an older pic of her :)

Oh yes she’s definitely a lady. She’s not as loud as the other girls but she does quack. I still need to ask the feed store which hatchery they buy from. Some clearer pics of her face:

She shouldn’t be a mix; she’s from a hatchery.

Here she is about 11-12 weeks old. She’s large compared to the runner and Campbell. She’s honestly about the same size as the pekin girl!

I want to grow out the male chicks I have to butcher. They’re mixed with marans, australorp, and EE. What diet should I feed them and what age is best to butcher?

I’m still trying to figure out if my duck is a buff or Saxony. I’ve had mixed answers. She does quack so I’m certain she’s a girl.

This is how she is looking now! Such a pretty duck. She is just starting to quack a little. One of the Pekins quacks regularly.

She hasn’t budged off her nest since she went back in. Settled down really snug and she won’t move lol I guess this is it! Thanks guys

Her broody behavior is more intense today if that makes sense. She laid an egg a couple hours ago and is now back in the coop in her nest. Extra growls and screeches. I’m guessing if not today then very very soon she’ll set! I have plenty of eggs for her to hatch.. hopefully this year they make it.