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Hi, Chickenhivemind. Since going broody, setting a clutch near to hatching, then having said clutch destroyed by another vengeful velociraptor approximately two days before hatch day, my French copper maran has been laying nothing but witch/fairy eggs. I’ve attached a photo of the last two, with...

Heard the first peep from the incubator this afternoon (day 20), but I don’t see any eggs that have pipped (incubator has windows). How long can the chick survive before suffocating?

Has anyone ever seen feathers like these? Do they come from a particular breed? They’ve grown out of both the tail and wings of a few of my five week old silkies...

Hi! I recently purchased a batch of silkies of various colors (now 5 weeks old), and the two black ones have these unusual feathers! Has anyone ever seen this? Will they stay, or fall out? They're really cool!

I could really use everyone’s expertise here. Lots of backstory, so please bear with me! I had a chicken, Alice, who got attacked by a hawk, based on the giant bald patch that appeared on her back between the hours of noon and five (we have turkeys who usually keep them away, and I’m guessing...

Hi! I recently ran across a hatchery site selling sexed turkey poults, Valley of the Moon Turkeys. It is the ONLY site I have seen offering heritage breeds sexed. Is there any other company that does? My difficulty is that I need more hens, not toms, and by the time I am able to identify their...

I got four black Spanish poults in July, unsexed, and I’m pretty sure now that three are toms and only one is a hen (I was REALLY hoping for the opposite distribution!). Today, two of the toms, Boz and Elvis, got in their first fight, and the third, who I had been hoping beyond hope was a girl...

Hello, chicken people! I am very new to raising chickens, and have been lurking on this site for about a year now. I raised a batch of 26 meat bird and they are now in my freezer, and I have finally gotten going with my layers and four turkeys. They’re all little bitty birds still, about 3 weeks...