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I have a beautiful Light Brahma Cockerel (Baron), just under 5 mo., that needs a good home. I'm keeping his brother Bruiser who is already the dominant and figured 1 cockerel was enough. They are 2 of 7 from my March hatch. I live near Frederick, MD. If someone decides they want him I could...

I decided to compare Bruiser at 2 weeks and Bruiser at just under 5 months. The only difference is he got bigger. 😂

I have a 1 year old rooster that is too aggressive with my hens. He won't dance or call them for food, he just sneaks up and jumps on them as they scream. I know this is unacceptable but I raised him and we are both still attached to each other. I've become so desperate that I got him the...

I have always had Light Brahmas and normally incubate and hatch my own eggs. Since most of my adult hens are just over 3 years old, and there is no way I’m getting rid of them when they stop laying, I decided to start a second flock so I decided to incubate my own eggs and got a few pullets from...

I just noticed one of my 12 week old pullets has a jaw or overextended beak problem. The lower part of the beak extends further out and is also crooked. I don't know if she had it when she hatched and I never noticed it before or not. My biggest concern right now is that she'll start having...

I have 7 newly hatched chicks. I had already prepared myself for not all of them to hatch so I was really excited when they did. They all hatched yesterday with the last 3 last night. This mornining I found one of them upsidedown, flailing it's little legs. It couldn't turn right side up. I...

I've been meaning to ask about this since last year. I've had broody and mother hens before who would growl at certain times so I recognize the sound. But I also consider this totally normal for them during these times. But then something happened that surprised me. I have a hen, Kotàra, who...

I noticed 2 of my hens with sunken eyes a few days ago but since they were going through severe molting I decided to just keep an eye on them. (No pun intended.) As they started growing their new coats Kotàra's eyes looked much brighter but Grouchy's eyes remained sunken. Yesterday Grouchy's...

One of my 2 week old chicks bullies her way to her chosen nap spot.

It's the first time one of my hen's hatched eggs. She laid on about 12 eggs but left the nest box after only 2 hatched with only those chicks leaving the rest of the eggs and it's definitely too high for them to get back to the nest. (I'm guessing she's not going back to sit on those eggs so I'm...

I only had 3 brahma chicks hatch after incubation with two turning out to be cockerels. At 6 weeks the boys had already start fighting with one having had feathers pulled out. Since I had one cockerel and one pullet that did great together last year, I went ahead and gave one of the cockerels...

I don't know what happened but my 2 Day old brahma chick either broke or dislocated it's leg. It's 11 pm where I live and there were no emergency vets I could find that currently had the chicken Vet on hand. Is there anything I can do for it? Also, her pain is around the hock or just above...

I have a single brahma chick that hatched late Friday. (FYI eggs are from my own flock.) I was hoping to have one more at least for company but things didn't workout that way. I have 2 more due this Saturday (🤞) and plan to house them with this one. I'm hopeful that the older chick will accept...

My Brahmas are 2 years old and this is only my third hen to become broody. This time I thought I would let her hatch them herself hoping not all her motherly behaviors were bred out especially since she's from a hatchery. Anyway, it was a few days after she started incubatint when we finally...

Yes, it's me again. This is my egg C. It was looking really good and growing. But I'm now seeing a red circle around it. I'm hoping you guys tell me it's my imagination or something and it can't be bacteria.

One of my hatchlings last year happened to be a cockerel I named Muffin. I went ahead and gave him to my neighbors. The only concern I had is they only had 2 average sized hens and Muffin is a Light Brahma. Since they free ranged I wanted my cockerel to be at least 5 months. That seemed to...

I'm going to show you two pictures of 2 different chicken eggs at day 3, D and E. I have 5 eggs incubating right now and all but E look the same. I candled my batch from last year but still never noticed anything like E is showing. My worry is contamination. Is this anything to worry about?

Here are 2 of my 4 light brahma eggs at Day 18 getting ready for Incubator Lockdown. (I candled them earlier in the day and everyone seemed to be doing fine.) I put the top down on the incubator to get more water since I was having a problem with humidity. When I came back they looked like...

Maybe 4 or 5 months ago I thought I noticed a chicken behavior that I had not heard of before. My girls would use their beaks and open and close them repeatedly at one time very quickly. I knew they did this while eating but began noticing they did the same thing when submitting or greeting a...

I haven't been on here lately because I'd been taking care of my mother. Within the last few weeks we found out she had pancreatic cancer that had metastasized so I brought her to my house to take care of her while she was in Hospice. She finally passed away last week in her sleep. She lived a...