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Just interested on which is the best pick ingredient wise ( mixed flock, mixed breeds, mostly for eggs ). 1.) 2.) 3.)

Tater Tot is a 1yr old BBRed OEGB It’s been 3 days since i first noticed his eye was shut and the swelling. I think he got into a fight as that side of his face was a little bloody. It has progressively gotten worse but he has started to opened his eye. There’s pus and a clear, gel-type...

Anybody know what these belong to? It looks like feathers from under fluff or from near the legs and I highly doubt it’s from any of my chickens. The ones that are that color don’t have spotted feathers.

So, Tilly here is easily one of my biggest chickens. Though, I don’t know by how much this girl actually weights but I’m planning on doing just that after I go around re-filling feeders. Supposed to be a black australorp but you can see she isn’t that. Figured a black sex-link but she has the...

So, yeah, Tater Tot isn’t going after the chicks; he’s going after the momma hen, Nelly. Yes, she fights back. Why is he doing this, exactly? I know broodies kind of get bullied but I figured it was only by the other hens and roosters ignore them altogether. However, it seems like Tater has a...

I was really hesitant to post this but I got an egg out from under one of my broody hens that was due to hatch any day ( they were put under her the 6th ) last night. All of the other eggs under her were duds and I figured this one was too ( it was a blue egg and even the brightest flashlight I...

They have officially taken all of the nesting boxes in this coop. The broodies are multiplying; their numbers grow stronger everyday. ‘Tis the season

My 1yr old lavender orpington, Audrey, is limping and has a swollen foot. Bumblefoot came to mind but when I caught her, I couldn’t see the typical scab I did on some of my other hens. It was hard to find, but the scab is like a little pinprick and I’m not sure how that’s going to change the...

Buckle up, kids, this is gonna be a doozy. I’ll start by introducing the star of the show: Oppy, the chick that’s missing some toes and has the 5 toe gene, ironically. Hatched the 17th by a kindergarten class and sadly was the only one to make it ( power kept going out during incubation ). They...

So, for the past few days I noticed Pumpkin ( a year old or close to it ) was not acting herself and I don’t think she’s been laying either. She’s lost some weight and holds one of her legs up when she stands in place but will walk on it. Her poop is getting stuck to her fuzz ( could be from...

Hubble here was hatched April 26th, so that makes them 3 weeks old. I know it’s almost impossible to tell this early, but I was wanting to get the ball rolling on this little poll. They’re a mix breed that came from a blue egg, so their mom is either one of my Easter Eggers or Crean Legbar and...

I have two broody hens and I don’t know what happened, but I guess they got too close to each other and one of them was able to get ahold of the other’s chick. It has a wound on its back which ive doctored but my main concern is it’s leg. You can tell it’s bruised and it doesn’t want to put it...

I have two duck eggs under my broody hen and they started hatching early ( they were due to 22nd ). I noticed the one started on the wrong end, but it obviously getting enough air now. However, does it look like it needs help? The second egg also pipped on the wrong end.

So, I do have oyster shells on the side for my hens but some their shells are weak. I don’t know if they’re just not eating the shells or it’s not enough. I feed them Purina Flock Raiser because I have a mixed flock, but I was wondering if I could mix in a layer feed to give the girls something...

I have some broody hens that all decided they wanted babies at the same time. Nala ( some kind of designer hatchery mix breed ), Cookie ( another designer mix breed ) & Mumble ( blue Ameraucana ). They were broodermates and aren’t even a year old yet, but I decided to give Cookie and Mumble some...

So, I let everyone out a little bit ago and noticed Pumpkin’s chest was covered in blood. Thankfully, the blood wasn’t coming from her chest but from the tip of her nail. She somehow broke some of it off and I know there isn’t a whole lot to do, but it’s still actively bleeding and it seems to...

he’s the king cock of the flock! Anyways, this is just to offload various media of my favorite boy. He’s an almost 2yrs old Easter egger ( that was meant to be a pullet hence his name lol ).

Maude is my 2yr old EE roo and he’s constantly making these quick clucking noises. It seems like a personality quirk as none of the other roos do it to the same frequency as he does. I can only guess it’s some kind of “POSSIBLE DANGER?!” sound but I am really at a loss. He’ll even do it while...

I got home from work today to see Milly, who will be 2 in March, hunched in the middle of the yard by the waterer. She wouldn’t move and let me pick her up ( not typical ) and her crop was like a water balloon. I gave her a tablespoon of coconut oil and massaged her crop, brought her inside &...

So, this deals with the rooster side of chicken keeping and today there was a major shift in attitudes between my 2yr EE & 34 week old blue cochin. Maude, the EE, has always gotten along with other roosters and is very mild mannered, but he seemed to tolerate Blueberry, the cochin, less so than...