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M’y flock is now down to 3 hens and a rooster i used to have a male guinea who basically kept my rooster in check but a Fox got him a couple weeks ago. Holy personality change! The rooster now hops on whichever hen is closest whenever the mood strikes (a little too frequently if you ask me!) and...

Ok I had 2 of each of these kind but the predators this past fall brought my flock from 12 to 6 birds including my favorite girl Kung Fu Chicken 😭 one of each of these kind survived the winter (so far it IS New England after all!) so I know the rest of my flock is Orpington and a guinea cockerel...

I think I have a sick chicken or she’s super stressed. She’s been a bit bullied and today I had to pull her from the coop because her comb was bleeding (someone took a small piece of it) and her comb is more pink than red which I had just assumed was weather related but now I have her in my...

Hey everyone I just found out my landlord has decided to not renew leases for any of their properties which means I’ll be moving out by mid June. I have to move in with family thanks to covid killing my job there’s no way I can save up for a deposit for a new place. Anyways with that being said...

Hey everyone...3am had me outside in my bathrobe cuz one of my chickens was making this god awful dying noise. Found her sitting outside the coop in the snow and both her feet were bleeding! I managed to coax her back inside the coop and when I did all the birds (6 total, I have a teeny flock)...

Pretty sure it’s a boy but the comb hasn’t grown very much so now I’m not sure. I’m also pretty sure it’s a lace wyandotte

I’m sorry this is probably a common problem among northern chickens but my rooster has a blister on the top part of his comb and the entire comb is looking quite pale. We had a night that reached 3F the other day and last night maxed out around 10F. I’m assuming it’s the start of frostbite. What...

So. I’ve had my chickens since March. I had 4 egg laying females and now I’m down to 2. Fox got my big girl and my favorite blonde girl 😭. And now I’m stuck with 2 who just aren’t doing a great job. I’m lucky if I get 2 eggs a day and when I do the yolks taste a bit like dirt. Now I’m just gonna...

I know it’s off their usual season and she is rather young (5 months) but this egg isn’t like the others and up to today I only had 1 egg laying chicken. All the eggs I have are from the chicken but you can see how different this one is.

I have 5 hens originally ID’d as Ameraucana recently ID’d as Orpingtons and only one of them is laying. She started a week/week and a half ago first clutch came with 3 fart eggs (only yolks!) then Almost daily (minus 1 day) she was laying 1 egg (started off with massive double yolked eggs then...

My rooster doesn’t go in the coop at night. He gets picked on by someone and while they get along in the yard stuff goes down in the coop. Now I’m not worried about him at night when it comes to predators but I do worry about him come the winter. Would it be a good idea to bring him in at night...

Is there a way to break this?? I will probably go out there once dark sets and toss them all in but I don’t want this becoming a habit I live in the woods and with winter approaching predators are looking for a extra food! 😬 Side note: the guineas pick and choose when they go in it’s a gf/bf...

I know it’s still kind of early for an actual ID but I’m super curious because they look nothing like the rest of the flock did at that age. I’m also a little concerned because one of the darker chicks has quite a wide spot where the waddle will be...hoping it won’t turn out to be a boy. I’ve...

Ok so my chickens are a couple weeks overdue according to the usual 6 months egg laying age. There’s only one girl with a less predominant waddle but all their waddles are bright red. I have provided them oyster shell grit, regular grit, and egg laying feed. They aren’t hanging in a specific...

I have 3 guineas (2 males—unfortunate luck of the draw—and 1 female) and 6 ameraucana chickens (1 rooster and 5 hens) and they don’t like me lol. They follow me around the yard when I’m outside but anytime they even think my hand is heading toward them they flutter away. I 100% knew the guineas...

Can we tak about the awkward version of puberty my ameraucana cockerel is going through? 🤣 he’s got 2 fully grown tail feathers and the rest still have that shaft cover and are short so he looks like a bit of a derp!

I was wondering if this could actually happen. My young rooster feels my guinea hen is ready to breed and has proceeded to try to mount her multiple times now but he’s so small compared to her that I have a feeling it will never be successful. I tried looking online to see if anyone has had such...

So I have discovered a rooster among the 6 pullets I had purchased. I have also discovered a male guinea of the 3 I have left from the 4 I purchased along side the pullets. The guinea has now taken to attacking the rooster whenever they are in the same section of their confinement (indoor or...

Hi so I bought 6 pullets from tractor supply but I know fully well sometimes it can happen. This is the only chicken that isn’t getting along with my male guinea fowl...they aren’t fighting yet but whenever the guinea fowl gets close to the chicken the chicken scoots as fast as possible to avoid...

My dad said that he was told by someone who keeps chickens that you aren’t supposed to use the first batch of eggs your chickens lay. I have found literally no info to back this up. Is this true? My girls won’t be laying until like end of August or beginning of September but I genuinely need to...