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Hello! My name is Tux. I am 20 weeks old, aren’t I handsome? I am a very docile boy, and not at all aggressive with the ladies. I have recently started practicing my crow, so my mom says I can’t stay. I only crow during the day (so far), none of this early morning before sunrise stuff for me! If...

TSC told me the three chicks I bought were Calico Princess. From what I’ve read about the bread, they are sex-linked, which would mean that there is almost zero chance a boy would get mixed up with the girls. However, as chicks they all looked identical, almost exactly like my Comet babies. And...

i have a hen who is bullying my two 7 week old chicks. She is not the alpha, and also not the lowest on the ladder, but she won’t let the babies eat. She guards the food dispenser and attacks them if the go near it. I added a second feeder, and she has taken to guarding both. The chicks have...

My 5.5 week old Easter Egger pullet has a wing injury that I can’t identify. She seems to be acting mostly normal, eating chick crumble and drinking ACV treated water, following her hatchmate (cockerel) around everywhere. I haven’t noticed if her droppings have changed at all recently. I...

My wife tells everybody who will listen about Chicken Math. She says, there is no adding or subtracting in Chicken Math, only multiplying. Welp. Chicken Math strikes again. We went to TSC for mouse traps, and #ChickDays got the best of us.... again. We left with week old Calico Princess chicks...

These are my 5 week old EE babies. This one I am certain is a cockerel: This one, I am still undecided. Anyone have an educated guess?

Hello everyone, I’m looking for advice on a broody Mama. Thelma went broody about 10 weeks ago. As we have no rooster, and she was adamant about stealing everyone’s eggs every day, after about two weeks we finally got her some fertilized eggs. She sat very well, and now has a small brood of two...

Ever since hatch day, I have had a suspicion that one of these little babies is a roo. “He” was bigger than the other at hatch, has been far more outgoing and noisy, and definitely instigates mischief by standing up tall, raising his head, and rushing at the smaller one frequently. Is it too...

My wife and I are incubating eggs for the first time, and took a shot at candling after reading about it on here and other sites. The last babies we hatched were done with a broody hen, so we were pretty hands off with the process. This time around we were super excited to candle and see...

Hello BYC friends! I’ve read on here of people sneaking baby chicks under a broody hen at night and the mama adopting the babies. I currently have a Mama who hatched two chicks about three weeks ago. I have 8 eggs in the bator with two weeks to go. So my question is, will I be able to sneak...

Hello all! I have a 14 month old black sexlink that went broody about 7 weeks ago. After two weeks of taking her eggs, we took pity on her and bought some fertilized eggs from a hatchery (we have no roo). Fast forward to today, and I have mama hen with two beautiful baby EEs that are about two...

Hello everyone, I’m fairly new around here. I’ve been lurking as a non-member for almost a year and a half, and finally decided it was time to just jump into it. We live in urban Kansas City, and have a small flock of about 15 chickens (our local legal limit :( ). We started out with our first...