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Welcome back to today's episode of The Young and Clucking... Last season saw Bitchena dealing with psychotic behaviors and postpartum broodiness over loss of her clutch and Bielle is simply one of a trio who no one ever rembers. Today we find our leading ladies Bitchena and Bielle have been...

Let me set the stage... I have a hen and for lack of a better word she's a b***h. I thought Buff Orpingtons were supposed to be nice but I digress... Well I got behind collecting eggs a few weeks ago and low and behold this hell hen has taken up residence in a nesting box packed with about 15...

Allow me to set the stage. I had a wonderful roo that was a White Rock BO cross that did the deed with my pure BO hens. Now many weeks down the road I am presented with these offspring who are both 13 weeks old. Then there's this little surprise guy from my broody hen (sorry for the bad pics...

Introducing Ugly! So this little girl/boy?? is a fun little cross between my sneaky American gamebird Elvis and one of my Australorp hens. Its name came from an extremely rough looking feather development. Ugly is about 12 weeks old. Any ideas on if its a boy or a girl?

My Franken babies as I like to call them, are the last offspring of my old roo Mr.Sparkles a Barred Holland over BO, RIR and Australorps. Since they are a barnyard mix I had no idea what the offspring would look like. So I decided to take pictures of them to keep track of their progress and also...

So this little fanken baby is one of 2 that I was able to hatch from my own birds. The dad was a Barred Holland and the mom is a Silver Laced Wyandotte. My other bird I'm almost 100% sure is a boy but this little one has me stumped. They both are 5 weeks old.

So I have a barnyard mix of frankenstien babies. The father was a Barred Holland and the hens were RIR, Buff Orpingtons, Australorps, and a Silver Laced Wyandotte. I know from research that all offspring will have some form of barring. My question is will I be able to feather sex these babies?

Today I woke up to a day with no rooster crow. Through my own lack of attention I left the chicken coop open last night. Today I paid the price for my lack of attention. I walked into our coop to find 3 of our 8 week old littles torn to shreds. Our resident rooster was nowhere in sight, nor did...

I'm trying to find Bielefelders that I can either go pick up as eggs or chicks in VA. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I'm interested in 2 different autosexing breeds, the Bielefelder and the Cream legbar. I was wondering if you were to breed those 2 together would the resulting chicks be able to be auto sexed?

First I would like to say I adore roosters and hope to have one in my flock again in the future. Now to my problem Mr. Sparkles, my barred rooster has turned people aggressive. He's my only roo in a flock of 5 hens, and 9 pullets all are laying. When it comes to his girls he's fantastic I...

Happily 6 of my 9 young pullets are now laying eggs :wee . Now one of my girls a Buff Orpington named Buttercup is staying long periods of time in the nesting box. All the others get in do their egg making magic and exit singing, not Buttercup. I go to collect eggs and she fluffs up her feathers...

So for the longest time I've thought that one of birds was a cockerel. My bird is 24 weeks old has never corowed, shows no aggressive or male behaviors. I originally bought the bird from Tractor Supply from the pullet bin and he/she is supposed to be a RIR. I do have a dominant cockerel that's...

So like many expectant new chicken mama's I've been anxiously awaiting my girls first eggs. All my new girls are 22 weeks old. I have 3 Buff Orpingtons, 4 Rhode Island Reds and one Red Ranger. Today I decided to take a little look around the house where I know my girls like to lurk.... and I...

Back in September I was in Tractor Supply and came across a sale of baby chicks... I was not strong enough to resist. So home came a Red Ranger, 5 RIR and 3 Buff Orpingtons despite my woeful lack of chicken knowledge. Luckily we already had an old coop with 5 hens that are my father in laws...

I was trying to get a good pic of my 13 week old RIR cockerel Scraggles yesterday to document his growth and he decided not to cooperate. Instead one of my RIR girls decided to steal the show.

So I have 2 hens, both are from hatchery stock not sure where but I believe Muarry McMurray. They were my father in laws but now mine. I believed they were both Australorps but in looking at how they're shaped, leg colors and size I'm not sure anymore. They are both 5 years old and still laying...

Hi all this is Mr. Sparkles. I got him from a lady that was rehoming him due to his continued and unwanted advances on their African goose and male duck. He's about 6~7 months old. He's great with my girls and takes his job seriously. I just want to make sure he's actually a Barred Holland as in...

This is Goldilocks. My father in law gave her to me and I haven't been able to figure out what breed she is. I thought she was an EE but I haven't been getting any colored eggs.

I'm a new chicken mama and I have some questions about how an existing flock of adult chickens is supposed to respond to 6 week old baby chicks? I have 5 adult hens and a rooster, my new babies are 8 pullets and 1 cockerel. I did the whole see/no touch pen for about 2 weeks and finally...