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Hi! I have 3 mottled bantam Cochin cockerels and 2 serama cockerels looking for a new home! They’re all 6 weeks old and just started living outside full time. Same old story... I would love to keep them all but I already have 2 roosters and not enough girls for all of them. The bantam cochins...

Hi there, I have a 2 week old bantam Cochin who, a couple days ago, suddenly started an off behavior of keeping its head tucked in (beak to chest) when it’s sleeping, and when it starts to awaken it rubs the top of its head on the ground, shaking back and forth, and usually backs up. The night I...

This is a long shot, but I figured I would post here before I take him to the farm store... Same familiar story of a really sweet young cockerel turning into a semi aggressive roo... I have an almost 1 year old rooster needing a new home. He’s some sort of mix and has been a perfect gentleman...

My favorite girl Mamba hasn't laid in about 7 days.. ever since she was 6 months old she's been faithfully laying about 6 days a week. She's usually the first one in and out of the nesting box in the morning, and hasn't had any problems before. I've been watching her pretty closely since I...

Right now she’s sitting on 6 eggs that are on day 17, so we should be expecting some babies any day now. I also have some of her eggs in the incubator which would probably do better hatching under her but I don’t want to overwhelm her by giving her more. My main concern is that this is her...

So, I live in a place where there are a lot of vacation rental houses, which ultimately means a lot of random loose dogs and other things. Also, we have a public access path one yard over which leads to a lot of random people/dogs coming through. Our yard is quite big, and not fenced, and not...

Hi there! Thanks for reading :) Location: Sonoma County CA Roosters name: Bandit Breed: Bantam Cochin Weight: unsure Age: 10 weeks Size: small - like, hold in one hand small About: I absolutely love this little guy but I can’t keep him because I already have two roosters and not enough hens. One...

Hi there! Thanks for reading (: Location: Sonoma County CA Roosters name: Bandit Breed: Bantam Cochin Weight: unsure Age: 10 weeks Size: small About: I absolutely love this little guy but I can’t keep him because I already have two roosters and not enough hens. He was hatched and raised by...

Hi! I hope ya’ll aren’t tired of silkie genders yet haha. This is my first and only silkie, so I’m not super familiar with them other than what I’ve read here. I know that they’re difficult to sex & I likely won’t find out until crowing/egg laying. I don’t need to find out now, but I’m just...

Hi there, This is my first time trying to move around & join groups of chickens. I know theres endless resources on integrating them but I have a little bit of a different situation and no real life chicken friends to ask their opinion. So... I have 2 l.f. pullets (5 months old) that live with...

Not an emergency - just wanting to see if anyone has had experience with this - but I have a 6 week old silkie who has had a curled foot since she was born. I attempted to correct it right after hatch, thinking it was just her toes that were curled. I tried this for a couple weeks but nothing...

Hi, My pullet with a suspected respiratory disease unfortunately died this morning, but I'm glad she's out of her misery. After she died I called an avian vet who would have been able to do a necropsy for her but she won't be back in the office for a few more days. I really want to get her...

I've posted about this before but I have a 12 week-ish old pullet who has been wheezing & sneezing (or coughing?) for almost a week (first noticed last Sunday). When I first noticed her wheeze it was an extreme honking noise and she was sneezing quite a lot. Here's a video...

I have a 12 week pullet who I noticed is wheezing today, so I think she's only been like this for a day or so. It has been very cold and wet for our area the past week or so. I just put down straw a couple days ago that was super dusty so I'm hoping that didn't cause this. Her breathing is...

I just got into crochet and made my own beanie so I figured I would make a tiny one to embarrass the chickens with :) I just had to share a couple of the pictures!

I have this bantam egg approaching day 24 tomorrow morning. This egg was showing movement this morning, but has been moving less throughout the day and isn’t moving very much at all anymore. I have 5 other eggs in the incubator and from day 22 they’ve all moved then quit later on. I don’t hear...

I have 6 shipped silkie & bantam Cochin eggs in the incubator on day 23. I incubated them upright because of wonky air cells. One silkie hatched but was super malpositioned and I had to help, and Cochin hatched perfectly on day 21. I went ahead and candled the 6 mid day 22 and 4 seemed to be...

Well, it’s been a weird day. I had two chicks hatch (yay) but one of my older pullets randomly died. I wanted to reach out to see if anyone might have an idea of what happened or if they’ve had this happen themselves. All my 7 month old chickens were out free ranging as they normally do, and I...

This silkie chick just hatched (with assistance, it was very malpositioned (these were shipped eggs). I waited somewhere between 24-36 hours to help. It tried zipping but was making a vertical line down the shell instead... Anyway, it kicked off the shell on its own but had stringy stuff that...

Hi there, I have 8 eggs on lockdown (temp 99.5 humidity 65%) they’re just entering day 21. These are shipped eggs with wonky air cells so I’ve been following instructions to incubate them upright. I woke up this morning to find one egg had a pip but the pip is just barely above the cut down egg...