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I second selling and not giving him away. I recently posted two free young cockerels, not minding if someone ate them and received a message from a man who wanted them "all any other roosyers I may want to rehome". I asked if he was going to eat them and he said he used them as bait for...

@Texas Kiki I'm totally cracking up at myself right now. I call it EP and wasn't thinking. But no, I didn't investigate. I haven't gotten that far yet being a long time chicken keeper but never a keeper of a sick chicken until these 2.

@Texas Kiki I don't know what EYP is and no, I didn't.

So true about chickens not generally eating things they shouldn't, @Eggcessive. Though I do not know my tulips were eaten and the buttercup patch has been munched on, I can't say for sure that it was from a chicken. I will try to get a necropsy if this happens again for sure. We live pretty...

Unfortunately that looks far beyond saving. And I totally agree that I would leave in the incubator what's in the incubator and under the hen what's under the hen. With that different of a hatch date, you could be jeopardizing that little one's life as well.

Thank you, @Eggcessive. My previous username was aliciaFarmer. I had thought the first hen may have had may have Marek's but it turned out she didn't. A friend of mine who also used to be a vet tech wanted to check her for tumors or any signs because she had gotten several birds from me a couple...

Almost exactly two months ago I lost one of my Olive Eggers to a mystery illness or ailment. At first I thought it was Merek's but it turned out not to be, thank goodness. A friend of a friend who is a veterinarian looked at videos and pictures of her and thought it was egg peritonitis. Fast...

I had a Partridge Cochin a few years ago that used to do that because she was bored. At that point I wasn't allowing my chickens to free-range yet and had 16 in a 2500sf area which they had decimated all the grass and greens from. I didn't realize at that point that they were bored and started...

Definitely a pullet. I've had 3 batches of 3 Orpingtons (Buff and Lavender) and each time I've had one in the bunch that developed a bit more quickly than the other two. That threw me off the first time. If it were a cockerel, you'd definitely be able to tell sometime between 3 and 6 weeks as...