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She is sitting on three eggs that have yet to pip, I’m waiting a few more days until I give up on them, and two healthy babies that hatched three days ago. Almost every time I lift her up to check that babies and eggs are all accounted for, I see soiled bedding underneath her where she poops...

My very sweet hen Pishy has been dedicated to sitting on a clutch of six eggs. Yesterday, I noticed the first pipping egg. This morning, I awoke to the cutest, fluffiest chick I have ever seen. I already have her a name. Pictured attached. I’ve been so excited, checking on them three times...

I have a flock of 8 hens and one rooster named Birdy. He’s maybe 5 months old, an EE and Cochin or Brahma mix i‘m thinking. All of my girls were hand raised by me and love me, and Birdy was introduced around 2 months later. Although I didn’t raise him, he’s naturally friendly to humans and...

This is Birdie. I’m not sure how old he is, any guesses are welcome. His previous owner only said he was an EE cross, but I’m curious to know what he’s got in him. He has three rows on his comb, but the middle one is much larger than the sides. He has regular sized wattles, and a fair amount of...

These are the first few weeks of the heat of summer, and my pullets can’t seem to figure out that laying apart from each other cools them down. 🙄 It‘s going to continue getting hotter and they already have their mouths wide open panting and their wings lifted. They have adequate shade, damp...

My babies have finally reached the 5 week mark, and they’re fully feathered and gorgeous. I wanted to show them off, get your opinions on sex, and some help deciding on their names. They were all labeled as pullets and I brought them home at a week old. They’ve been feathering up very nicely...

I have a flock of 8 pullets that are all about 2 weeks old. One I suspect is a cockerel. I’ve had them for only a week and because they met me at a week old, they’re still very cautious of me. I have 3 speckled Sussex, 3 EEs, and and 2 buff orpingtons. Of the breeds that would do well in my...

I just got a few more chicks to add to my brooder from our local feed store. They’re all 2 weeks old, but I got most of them when they were one week and I’m pretty sure they’re all from the same batch at the store. They aren't selling out quickly and they looked really crowded, probably super...

Hey everyone! I used to be active on here a couple of years ago when I was raising my very first flock at 13 years old - assorted English orpingtons. We had them for about a year but decided to rehome them when winter came and we discovered that our handmade coop was drafty and failed to keep...

We live in a small town and our vet is closed and is expensive, also our dog Ollie is extremely scared of strangers so we try limit bad experiences as much as possible. He’s been home alone with my dad all day and my dad says that he didn’t notice until I pointed it out. There’s no way they it...

First of all I’m sorry for posting this on a website meant for chickens but I really don’t know who else to get help from and I’m starting to really worry. Heres whats happening and then I’ll give some background. My 3 year old dog Kiro has been extremely itchy around the neck area for about 4...

Just days before today, my rooster would come up to me asking to be pet and held. Now it’s like something switched in his brain and he’s attacked me four times since i went in to feed them and clean out the coop, he would have tried again if I hadn’t locked him up in the run. I hand raised him...

My beautiful rooster recently went to the vet because of a horrible Flystrike wound, they gave us a disinfectant to clean it and an antibiotic to squirt in the wound daily for a month. They said the maggots had made a tunnel all the way from under his butt into his chest, poor thing :( My mom...

I know this is supposed to be about chickens/ranching but I’ve seen some dog experienced people on here and I don’t know where else to ask. One of my dogs has fear based aggression towards people that started at the vet when he was a puppy, he had tons of bad experiences with being held down...

I’ve asked about one squishy egg from and most of you said it was just a random thing that happens to young hens. But recently another of my hens started laying and in the past week I’ve found four squishy eggs, all broken and in their coop. Luckily they only like to go in the coop when they...

There are fires near where my family lives, I’m not worried about the chickens burning because our yard is six acres of green, well-watered grass but the smoke has hit us a couple of hours ago. The fires are going to come closer still so I predict the air won’t be breathable. I’m anxious about...

Later today I came across this squishy, clear-ish egg in my chickens coop. I’ve heard enough to know that it’s because she wasn’t getting enough calcium to form the shell, right? I feed the hens all flock feed because I‘m under the impression that layer feed could be harmful to my rooster in the...

Hi! I‘m a first time chicken owner and I have a flock of 6 pullets and 1 cockerel. At what age should they switch from grower to layer feed? They are multiple ages but the oldest ones are almost 4 months. When they do switch to layer feed, is it okay to feed the rooster the same thing as the...

Hello! I have 1, 4 week old chick and 2, 6 week old chicks that are in an outside brooder inside of our chicken run. Sorry if that’s confusing 😅 I put a door on the brooder and created a miniature run for them inside of the other run so that my older flock and the babies can see each other...

Hi everyone! I need to sell my speckled Sussex pullet, she’s 7 weeks. I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere so the chances that someone would want her and live close enough to get her are slim. I just wanted to ask how much I should sell her for, she’s very beautiful and healthy. I’m...