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She is my only white egg layer, and has been laying last year and just started up again. I know Anconas are supposed to have big floppy combs but hers are gimongous with super big wattles(see photo) and she looks like a rooster! She has also started to boss the other chickens around more. She is...

Just posting an update and thought y'all would enjoy some chicken photos. We added 5 to our flock of 3 this spring after losing one to illness over the winter. My 2 1/2 YO are a Cuckoo Marans(Sosgei), Buff Orp(Lemon) and a beloved Buff Brahma(Flossie). Both buffs are currently molting, and the...

Hi all! I am very frustrated with my flock of three freeloaders. They all had a hard molt this winter, but it's nice and warm here in CA and two of them are FINALLY squatting. We lost one chicken several weeks back, they are in a new huge coop with FIVE nest boxes to choose from(I have chicks...

Our sweet buckeye Brownie is on her last little chicken legs. She has always had issues-she was the pasty butt chick but I bathed her and nursed her and she grew strong and started off laying well last year, but her poop was always a little off(with periods of being fine). She is free of worms...

Brownie is a 1.5 yr old Buckeye who has always had pasty butt issues. She looks terrible in general right now because she is dead smack in the middle of a full molt, which makes this extra worse because I have to handle her. She is not standing well, and is very lethargic. Usually she is the...

So...we put our coop in the corner of the yard under the neighbor's huge redwood tree, and it was shady and cooler when the rest of the yard was super hot all last year during the summer. My hens were pullets and not laying yet, so they spent most of their day following the shade around the yard...

My 1 year old Buckeye Brownie was until recently my most reliable layer. She did lay a couple fart/fairy eggs in the last couple months, and then about two weeks ago stopped laying entirely. She doesn’t appear to be molting and is acting completely normal otherwise. Every morning she goes into...

Can anyone else relate? I feel judged. :gig

Our yard guys snuck some fertilizer on our lawn this morning and left before I noticed-and I have no idea what it was! We are long term renters and are allowed to have chickens-the maintenance crew is provided by our management company. I usually let the chickens on the lawn to forage a few...

My 9 month old cuckoo marans is losing feathers. She is too young to moult, correct? I have checked her for signs of mites or lice and she looks clean. She also seems a bit slower and slightly less alert. She is not wheezy or breathing weird, all seems well there. She is still doing all her...

My super sweet and quiet Buff Brahma Flossie Nugget finally laid her first egg yesterday! I can tell she is going to be laying big ones, as her first pullet egg was the size of a regular egg. It felt like forever, but I knew last week when she squatted that the time was finally near. Hopefully...

Yesterday we had what I think is a Sharp Shinned hawk dive for our Brahma! There was a huge racket and they all ran and hid(they have a covered run that is more like a pen with a tarp over the top that is not completely enclosed, but I cover the gaps and it is pretty highly hawk resistant-the...

So I had my first egg ever last Tuesday! I was so happy to see it, and looking forward to getting my Cuckoo Marans eggs! Two days later(Thursday) she laid a soft egg-it was egg shaped and stiff enough that it didn't break until I picked it up and half dropped it trying to get it out of the...

At 19 weeks and 2 days our Cuckoo Marans laid her first little perfect pullet egg(first one ever for us)! She was going in and out of the nesting box yesterday afternoon so I knew it was soon. We have a mixed flock and she is not the first one I thought would lay! Found it in our under-run in...

My 4 girls (18 weeks mixed flock, RIR, Buff Brahma, Buff Orpington, Cuckoo Marans) have been slowly working out their pecking order in our suburban back yard. They all seem to get along fine during the day-while they are out and about, there is no feather picking or major fighting behavior minus...

Greetings and glad to be here! We finally bit the bullet and bought a mixed flock of 4 brown egg layer chicks in early April of this year when it became clear we would be spending a lot of time with our 3 kids(11,7,6) at home in the coming months! We live in the far east bay burbs of SF. It has...