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I ordered a ISA Brown/coloured egg assortment of pullet chicks from a hatchery. Other breeds they suggested would be in the assortment included Ameraucana, cuckoo Marans, French black copper Marans, midnight majesty Marans, Prairie Bluebell Eggers, Olive Eggers, Sapphire Olive Eggers and...

The brooder coop is technically the former coal cellar/root cellar of this old farmhouse, so under the house but with a separate entrance.

She’s in a cage in the brooding coop, closed on 3 sides and with a board overtop so no one can poop on her. She’s been with the rest of the flock in that coop for about 2 months, only caged for a week. I don’t have anywhere else that’s secure I can keep her right now. My dogs and cats would...

Sophie has now had her first cleaning with Veterycin and then had her wound dabbed carefully but thoroughly with plain neosporin. She was up and alert and not very thrilled with my fussing. I’ll make sure she gets a bit of scratch with her feed and grit as a treat for being a good girl.

Sophie is on the small side; she’s one of four chicks I pulled from a bin of straight run bantams late last March. The rooster is 5 mos, Ameraucana/Barred Rock cross, from a clutch hatched by a broody in September. She already had a scabby wound from my Dominique hen who wasn’t thrilled when...

My Silkie girl, Sophie, is isolated in a cage because she had gotten a hard peck last week and I didn’t want the other chickens picking on the scab and making it worse. Unfortunately, one of the roosters got into the cage today - I suspect he wanted her food because I was a little late with the...

Didn’t get a chance to update until now but I did make it out to the coop before sunup the other day and her crop was flat as it should be in the morning. I also observed her poop when I let her out in the run later and it was normal, too. Basically, she seems fine except for the immature pink...

Her feet and legs look great and she doesn’t feel like she has any more prominent of a keel bone than the other chickens. Her pelvic bones feel closer together than the others, though. The chickens have been in bed for three hours now and her crop feels the same as the others - rounded but...

Over the last several of weeks, I’ve noticed that one of my Buff Orpington hens doesn’t seem to have matured? She’s the same age as my other three buff Orps but the others all have bright red combs and full figures. Dumpling, however, still has a small, pinkish comb and appears slimmer. I...

This is Maid Marion’s clutch. I’ll candle them in a couple days.

I can’t hardly believe they are all hers, either, and yet they are all the same beige color and size, just about the diameter of a quarter. Even Sophie’s eggs (Sophie is my Silkie) are twice the size of any of these! I’ll try to get a photo tomorrow. Also, I recounted, and there are 13.

Maid Marion is now settled on her clutch of 13!? eggs in our starter brooder in the basement with food and water. We don’t really *want* more chickens but since she put in so much effort, we’re giving her a shot at chicks. I know a mom who is considering letting her kids raise a couple chicks...

I didn’t realize they could go broody so early either. My neighbor was just saying, “At least you don’t have to worry about broodys yet” so she didn’t seem to know they could go broody so young either. This little lady had a single egg in the coop about two weeks ago and then this! She’s very...

We definitely have too many eggs! But our nearest neighbors have their own flock and the next nearest is half-a-mile distant. Fortunately, my co-worker takes a dozen a week and another friend gets half a dozen every week and a half. Most people in the area that want fresh eggs have their own...

My hens have only been laying a month (first egg appeared on July 14th) and one has already gone broody. Not only did she go broody but she nested out (found herself a quiet little place in ivy along the house) and surprised me with a clutch of 12 eggs when I finally found her two days later...

My hens have only been laying a month (first egg appeared on July 14th) and one has already gone broody. Not only did she go broody but she nested out and surprised me with a clutch of 12 eggs when I finally found her two days later! I’m not even sure how she amassed so many in such a short time...

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Hi, I’m Fowlfiends (which is also the name of my chicken sideblog on Tumblr). I’m relatively new to chickens, having just gotten started with a flock of chicks back in March. I currently have 22 chickens, including 5 buff Orpingtons, 3 Ameraucanas, 2 white Leghorns, 2 light Brahmas, 2 Old...