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This is Lucy, she was sold as a Salmon Faverolle but I wonder if she truly is, she has no beard, and she's quite "streamlined" in her body with quite a lovely upright fanlike tail. When I've looked at pictures of others they of course have the beard but are "dumpier" in the body and the tails...

I'm looking at getting an Eglu, anyone living in Australia can advise from experience whether they will be ok temperature wise during summer. I'm on the mid-north coast. Thank you!

about half an hour ago I came across a thread for owners of "special needs" chickens, and now I can't for the life of me find it again, can someone post me the link in a reply please

I have a little orpington chick (1 1/2 weeks) with a deformed hock joint, it's in a splint (been on nearly a week) to get it to set in a more "natural" angle. She barely puts any weight on it and hops around on the good leg using the other leg only as a prop on occasion. She doesn't seem to be...

The first lot of chicks I raised absolutely soaked the sawdust of their brooder pretty much hourly. What's the best way to stop this, will raising the waterer do the trick? or am I better to use newspaper flooring for quick changes as this is just what chicks do...?

Has anyone used sudocreme for scaly foot? I don't have any petroleum jelly and thinking it would work as it's a thick barrier cream with antiseptic. Any thoughts would be great :)

I have 4 chickens in a large ish enclosure however now the grass is gone in there they are getting very keen to get out... We don't have fencing on two entry points to our garden one is the with of a standard door, the other is the width of a single driveway. My partner doesn't want to put...

So I have a very confident Australorp puller (roo potential) who very much like to use me as a perch but does not like to be cuddled as such.. I have a shy silkie who I'm getting used to being handled. Today when I picked up the silkie for a cuddle the aussie got very disgruntled and was...

Sorry I'm not sure if I'm putting this in the right place.... out of curiosity how far will chicken's roam from their coop if not contained? Do they stray far and wide or tend to stick close by?

I got a new silkie to add to my little flock two weeks ago, I've noticed she occasionally sneezes with clear discharge, she's otherwise a perfectly happy chicken doing chicken things. Is this something to be worried about, will it clear itself up or do I need to take action? Bedding is...

I asked this same question a few weeks ago, initial think was one boy (white) and one girl (black) people said it would be obvious in a week or two if they were boy or not... Well it's been a few weeks now and I'm still not sure 😂 they're around 10 weeks now.

It's not happened yet but... When/if my Silkie goes Broodies I'd be keen to let her hatch some eggs. Is it generally best practice to separate mum and chicks from the rest of the flock or can you just leave them altogether and mum will protect her babies from the other hens?

Took a growth comparison of my snuggly light Sussex. A month old vs 2.5 months, far too cute not to share. She may be much bigger but she's still a cuddle bum.

Tried to take some pictures.... Silkie has white clumps in its front neck feathers, they're ever so slightly squidgy but don't pull out at least not when doing a solo job. Anyone got any ideas on what it could be and what to do about them?

I would love to hear everyone's top tips for getting good photos of your birds... I just can't seem to get a good photo! I've seen so many great photos on here, would be great to know how everyone does it

I've just noticed two of my pullets have tiny little light brown coloured lice crawling over their skin. The chickens seem to be completely unphased. Is it normal for chickens to have some degree of lice regularly? I've read spraying the chicken's skins with apple cider vinegar with water...

Now I'm a new chicken mum and I've had my little backyard flock for just over a month now, before this I was spending a lot of time learning about chickens, googling anything I thought I could possibly wish to know about them.... so here I was thinking I knew pretty much all the basic standard...

This is my 6 week old silkie, she doesn't look like any photos I've seen of other silkies around the same age... As if she's not really feathering up. She just looks like a big floofy baby. What does everyone reckon?

I've got a mixed flock so I have nothing to compare each bird to so I turn to you guys to ask the dreaded question of sex... Both these birds are extremely docile, lap chickens and will happily cuddle. A fair amount of chest bumping happens in the afternoon but its never more than a quick bump...

I've got a 4 week old silkie that has always had a bit of a tilt neck and been slower, initially gave her vit E which seemed to help along with not stressing her out. She could eat and drink fine so moved to just giving all of them a multi vit in their water. She's been slowly declineing again...