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I lost my flock rooster a couple months ago to a weird, wasting illness. I checked all through these forums and couldn’t find anything described that fit. He was a year old, perfectly healthy and had fathered a clutch of ten eggs that hatched. He suddenly stopped crowing, then seemed lethargic...

My broody hatched 10 chicks and had been a devoted, fierce mother up until today. Chicks are nine weeks old and I’ve been letting Mama Sith and her brood free range successfully with the rest of the flock every day for the past week. They are in their own coop at night. Tonight when I gathered...

Hi all, these chicks are 7 weeks old, all hatched by a broody Orpington. Only one (black and white chick) is her own. My rooster is a Buff Brahma. The other eight chicks are full Brahmas and Easter Egger/Brahma crosses. I’d love to know if any ideas can be made on their sex. Their combs seem to...

I had a big learning curve when a young pullet I had purchased last Fall went super broody. This site has been of course a huge help! The hen is an Orpington and began on two eggs, one not her own. So I moved her to her own condo and gave her those, and nine others I had kept on a counter in the...

There has been a sudden loss of eggs lately in my coop. Chickens are fine, not molting. I have a LGD so predators are staying their distance. And he can’t get into the coop and he isn’t an egg thief anyway. But I have many many squirrels. Can they carry eggs away? No broken shells or any other...

My little holding is four acres named for the frequent and terrifying crashing down of giant pine limbs ( despite loads of $ trimming and outright removing.) My first flock is nearly a year old and is composed of a buff Brahms rooster, three same hens and three Easter Eggers. I just added two...

I picked up two Ayam Cemanis (hatched in November) today. They are both very similar, but the questionable one has a very slightly larger comb. Any thoughts on whether it’s a pullet or cockerel? Thanks!

These two literally wandered up from a swamp across my property, and are hanging with my goats and LGD pup. I’m guessing Turken rooster and Easter Egger hen (green legs.) what do you think? Thanks!

Ive been letting my young flock (12 weeks old) out to free range every evening. There’s a mix of buff brahmas and Easter Eggers. The one cockerel is a Brahma. Tonight I noticed that the cockerel was standing in the pouring rain while all the pullets had retreated to the coop. He was at...

My Easter Eggers and Buff Brahmas, Nine weeks old, enjoy strawberry and watermelon treats. When I don’t bring them that, they check out my painted toes!

Now that it’s spring here, I’m realizing that my property is crawling with ticks. So much so, a trip outside pretty much guarantees a tick or too latched on discovery later. The ticks are “lone star” variety and their bite leaves an intensely itchy welt for days. Kind of like a chigger bite...

Ive posted about this little one before but took a new series of pictures hoping someone might know. It’s six weeks old, from a hatchery order of “rare/standard” assorted, with the rest turning out to be all huge Buff Brahmas (this one is about a fourth their size.) feathered feet, long neck...

I have a lovely lot of five-week-old, mostly Buff Brahmas and Easter Eggers and among them is this tiny...dude? One, does anyone know what it is? And two, do the bright orange shoulder patches indicate it’s a cockerel? I’ve added a solo pic along with next to a Brahma sis for size comparison.

is this a pearl or rose comb? This chick’s comb area has color while siblings’ are colorless and hardly there. Thanks!

Hi all! I have 11 chicks now at 4 weeks of age. Four are Easter Eggers from TSC and the rest are a “rare/standard” shipped mix from the hatchery used by TSC. I’m pretty sure the latter are all brahmas of some sort - they are mostly buff/cream colored with black or gray wings and they all have...

Hi all! I know it’s early - they’re almost a week old - but I thought I’d try to get some educated ideas on what I’m raising. With the exception of the brown/black stripy chick (who came from a mixed pullet bin of EE’s, Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpington at TSC) they are a selection from...

Hi all! I’ve already learned a wealth of important information on this website, so thank you so much! I grew up on a farm with Rhode Island Reds, and now 40 years later I’ve got new chicks in a brooder. Eight are “rare/standard” assortment and four are from TSC bin of pullets that included...