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I'm still learning about broody hens and this one's been hard to describe in a way that brings up any search results. I have a hen - a pullet, really, about 10 months old, but I thought I'd indulge her in brooding. I put four eggs from mature hens known to have high fertility and healthy hatches...

I wanted to share this unique looking chick I hatched a couple of months ago. She (we hope - all signs are good so far) is the offspring of my blue Orpington rooster and his daughter, who is black and from a Buff Orpington hen. Where on earth did this pied/mottled coloration come from? I don't...

Hello BYC - I'm treating a duck for an infection and have seen conflicting advice. I'm using the 10% enrofloxacin and she's 8 lbs - would be grateful for confirmation on dosage and schedule as I calculated it at 0.4ml but am not sure if that's once or twice daily. I'm giving it to her orally...

For those successfully keeping a bachelor flock - how tolerant do you find you need to be of fighting? My three boys are going through a phase where they want to (and often have) beat each other bloody. Just comb and wattle wounds, but we all know how those bleed! I don't see a defined bully in...

Our dear Shirley will likely pass in the next few days, but I'd like to hear any opinions for my ongoing education. Shirley is a Mystic Marans from Tractor Supply hatched in March 2022. Here's a photo of the lump on her face from mid-October, when she was still fairly well: Symptoms: Large...

My 2-year-old White Crested duck seems to have injured her left wing yesterday morning. I haven't found any wounds, but she's carrying the wing lower and held out from her side. When she walks, the wing tip jiggles. She's eating, drinking, acting normal except that she's much more willing to...

Tuesday afternoon I went to check on my birds and found my Silver Appleyard hen down - unable to walk, neck twisting strangely, flipping over, etc. She'd been a little slow for a few days, and I'd been worried she was having trouble laying, but this was clearly more. My daughter and I took her...

Again I write to you, oh wise BYC friends, looking for answers to a chicken puzzle. My 2-year-old hatchery stock Barred Rock hen, Blaze, looks like a battery hen. She dropped many of her feathers last fall but never fully molted (nor stopped laying, as far as I could tell). She was injured by...

I haven't had much luck finding answers via search so I hope no one minds me asking here. I hatched a batch of chicks yesterday, and have some unexpected colors in the bunch, based on what the Chicken Genetics calculator predicted. I'm very much a newbie when it comes to chicken colors...

I've got various links bookmarked and will read up on treatment - I just need a more experienced duck keeper to weigh in. Is this bumblefoot? Looking at the photos I feel like I see a bad spot on each foot. She's limping more on the foot with the possible iffy spot on the toe (first photo) but...

Just need to vent! I have a Barred Rock hen who has refused to molt and has just gotten more and more threadbare as time goes on - bare elbows, mostly bare back, only lightly feathered anywhere else and with ragged, sunbleached feathers. Now as if it isn't bad enough that she's half naked in the...

I got a White Layer hybrid as an "assorted duck" in this spring's order. She arrived yellow, turned pure snow white, and has been a steady and reliable layer, if not the most people-friendly. I noticed this week that she appears to have molted and grown in a bunch of golden feathers. It's quite...

Who else has a Hentronix door with wi-fi app? I'd like to hear from others to understand whether I just have an unusually quirky individual door or there is a larger issue. I have the large side-opening door with wi-fi app. I installed it in April 2022. Within a few weeks I started seeing issues...

We have bought a larger property (hooray!) and will be moving this week. I've read many moving threads but would still like to hear any tips, tricks, advice, or reassurance. For context, I have 17 chickens and 9 ducks and we're moving about 30 minutes away. Our 10x14 chicken coop will be moved...

I've only raised ducks from day-old so far, and my six older girls, while not exactly human-cuddly, are not remotely frightened of me. However, a neighbor came by last week with three 4-week-old ducklings that he needed to rehome. The farm dog had gotten into the ducklings and these were the...

With the latest heat waves I'm sure this question is top of mind for many. This is my first summer having chickens in a hot, humid environment (have had them in southern CA, but the Northeast summers are a different thing entirely). Saturday was sweltering hot with a heat index in the 90s. Our...

Looking for reassurance here, I guess. I've got a Brahma hen, first time broody, setting on two eggs. We candled them at day 10 and day 18 and have confirmed they're looking good. Today is day 21 - cue the holding of the breath! Now here's my question - what are the chances they don't hatch...

Hi all - my three cockerels, who had lived peacefully til now, had a big fight. I blame avian flu lockdown combined with youth and spring hormones. In the course of the fight the gentlest of the three, a young Dark Brahma named Janet, suffered a leg injury of some kind in addition to the usual...

I have a White Crested duck whose crest feathers have broken off over the course of winter. I think they've frozen and broken off. She now has one exposed fleshy spot and another that is slightly bloody as if one of the chickens or other (female) ducks has pecked it. Have others run into this...

Every day is a great day with ducks. Even the ones like yesterday where you wake up to find it's 8 degrees and the crested duck has covered her head in (now frozen) mud... I knew it wasn't hurting her, but it was encouraging the other ducks and the chickens to try to pull her feathers. The duck...