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Hello. I’m not sure if all the particulars in our situation have been covered so I’m going to lay them all out. We have 11 hens and 1 rooster in our flock and 1 of the hens became broody, sat on eggs and hatched 5 chicks on 10/21. The chicks are now 2 weeks old and thriving. We have left them...

Hello! I recently added 4 hens and 1 rooster to an existing flock of 7 hens. I left them in a dog crate for a day inside the run and put them in the coop at night. The next morning they were free to roam the run with the older hens and at dusk, we watched to see if they’d return to the coop...

I took a visit down to the run an hour before sunset where the flock has been kept without free ranging for a few days after a loss to a predictor last week. To set the picture of this evening, the temperature was in the 20’s and winds were sustained 15-20 with gusts up to 30, setting the wind...

A weird egg showed up in the nest box this afternoon. It was soft to the squeeze, but yet still kind of fine sandpaper like on the outside. It also looked like it wasn’t formed into a circle and frankly, looked like an organ of some sort. When we cut it open it was a normal egg yolk inside just...

New to chicken raising, in June I purchased what were sold as two ameraucana pullets from a May hatch aged approximately 6 weeks. Now they are about 16 weeks, I assume. Clearly at least one of these is an Easter egger. There are clear differences in tail feathers and feather color/pattern...

I’m sure this has been covered in some way on here, but I haven’t been able to find an exact scenario I am in and could use some tips from more experienced chicken folk. I purchased my first chickens from TSC without doing much research. I got 3 ISA Browns and 3 White Leghorns. I kept them in...