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Just picked up some new birds. They are 3-4 months old so they aren’t molting. But when I got home I noticed this on one of the Easter eggers. As you can see. It looks like Broken and plucked feather above the tail and tail feathers missing under the tail? The tail looks really skimpy to me. Any...

# 1 - #2 - partridge #3 - brown #4 - brown Thank you to anyone who takes the time to help me. I appreciate it. I thought for sure I will hear a crow by now! But nothing.

Hi all!!! I found these bugs a couple months back on the floor of my chicken run and on the outside of my chicken house. Just a few like 5 to 10. I sprayed with some oil solution and they seem to be gone. Until I was cleaning out the chicken house again a couple days ago. Again just a couple on...

Hi everyone, I posted about my silky laying a very strange Eggy stringy thing last week. She was fluffed up and sick that day after laying the strange substance. A little background information- it was her first time laying again after being broody. But since that day she seems normal again but...

Yesterday I got a rather small egg and a little bit of a different shape. Yesterday I suspected one of my other bantams started laying. She was really loud and she never makes a peep usually. And over the last week her comb has gotten bigger and more red. Oh and she also started squatting a...

So this morning, I found my silky in the nesting box with a very small egg next to her and on the egg was a really gooey weird stringy substance. The egg was completely normal just a little small. I’m thinking the normal small egg was a new layer. One of my pullets was really noisy today and...

This strange stringy thing was attached to one of the eggs this morning. I think it might be a new layer. All my hens are bantams and only two started laying the other three are all looking ready. One of my laying hens already laid and the other is in the nesting box. There are two possibilities...

We just made our Bantam chicken flock a new run on the side of our house. It has a roof so little to no rain should get in. I really would like to do the deep litter method so we can use the compost for our gardens. I really am not sure what are the best materials. We live in Northern California...

Hello, two days ago my little alike went broody for the first time. But since yesterday I’ve notice her poops being watery. Some hard normal looking and some watery. Today I saw this under where she slept. Not sure if it’s normal or needs attention. The rest of her poops from last night are...

Just about to order a cage off amazon but want to make sure it’s the right size. I have Batam hens so they are pretty small. Do you think a 22in would be a good size? Here is the one I was looking at. We do have a small coop so want to make sure it’s fits AmazonBasics Single-Door Folding...

Only two hens are laying but the last few days. Everyone is interested. They all follow her in the hen house and the pullets have started getting in the nesting boxes even the one my Laying pullet is in! It’s taking at least 2 hrs for the commotion to die down. I can’t imagine when they are all...

We have five little batams Silkie, frizzled cochin, D ‘Uccle, a cochin cross and a hamburg cross. We have them for two reasons. Pets for the kids and eggs for the family. We have a small space so bantams were our only choice really. We love them small! Just wondering how many eggs everyone here...

Hi all! I have 5 bantams and two started laying 2 weeks ago! It was so exciting!!! But three of them are around 6-8 months old and not laying yet. I’ve notice in the last couple days they have started going in the hen house a lot more during the day. Well today, I find that my nesting boxes were...

I checked one of my birds vent and under the wings during the day and didn’t see anything, but they do have scaley leg mites right now. When I was cleaning out their coop floor I found a couple of these. Some of them were reddish and some this color ranging from skinny to a little bigger. I...

So my poor bantam pullets are Infected with scaley leg mites. Some worse then others. Most of them have feather legs and feet so I didn’t notice right away. I’m very new to chickens. Do I need to burn their bedding and deep clean their coop for scaley leg mites? My coop is pretty small. I just...

I have two bantam crosses (Rosey and Dottie) which I’m not sure at all of their breeds. Any help or opinion would be great. I’m wondering what color eggs they might lay. They are both pullets around 6 months old. Thank you for looking

I have 5 batams that are around 7 months old. We found an egg on the run floor on Sunday!!! Yeah!! So I made up their nesting boxes and put some wood eggs in there. Yesterday we found an egg in The hen house by the nesting box. This morning when we checked and the silky was in the nesting box...

I Know they’re crosses between Cochin and silkies and I’m not sure what the other variables are. The lady who sold them said she was almost certain they were hens. I’m not sure about the white one though. Thank you for your thoughts!

Just want some thoughts on these new chick we got. They are 8 weeks old. They are a mixed breed This one is a this one is a silkie frizzle this is a seabright frizzle thank you for any replies

Can silkie hens have some reddish coloring to their comb? Or is that just Roos? I pick this chick up today thinking probably hen but I notice a reddish hint to her comb?