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Help! I've got a call to the chicken vet but its Christmas Eve... 6 month old pullet. Seemed fine at head count last night. This AM has clear drainage from her eyes, holding eyes clear, lethargic and not eating. Left eye is a little swollen. I do have new chickens but they are isolated on...

Hello fellow chicken peeps! ( pun intended ) This will be my first winter with my chickens! They are between 8 and 10 months old. My coop is made of recycled wood so I have gone thru and made sure there are no huge gaps that would let drafty winds through. Some of them I had to caulk over...

So I lost my 4 month old hen last week. Necropsy showed roundworms, evidence of a previous infection with coccidia, and nephrotoxic infectious bronchitis. I have dewormed with panacur per the vets instructions. We are going to wait a week then treat for coccidia just in case, then wait 10...

Omg I got my first two eggs! One yesterday and one today! I'm 100 percent sure its my olive egger Anna! The eggs are pretty mint green! Pictures don't do it justice! I had to share with people who would understand! Jaybyrd!

Ugh. I mainly just need to vent about the heat. I'm in NC and the heat index is pushing 110 today. I've got 2.fans on the coop, 2 fans on the run, tarps hung to block what sun there is ( luckily their castle is build under 3 old oak trees). They have flat dishes with cold water bottles and a...

Not sure if this is the right category to post in but for those of yall who have egg stamps, what size do you get? I have found someone who can put my logo on the stamp but not sure what size to get. This is all premature because none of my girls are laying yet! I have 2 Wyandotte, a...

So chicken math struck. I currently have 1 confirmed rooster and 11 other chickens, one may be a rooster, waiting on that. I am currently enlarging the run from 10 x 10 to 10 x 20. They get out in the backyard every night when I'm home from work. My concern is that if I have 2 roosters, they...

Got this chick from a pullet run of Anconas. She is about 8 weeks old. Im worried the picking up of her comb ( just a bit) is meaning she is a he and then I have 2 roosters for only 10 hens :( Thoughts? Pics are from about a week ago so she would have been about 7 weeks. Comb looks the same...

So chicken math has struck me. I started with 5. Now I have 12. So I want to enlarge my run. I'm thinking of making a second run and then connecting them with a chicken tunnel. Or would it be better to just make the existing run bigger? My chickens age between 6 weeks and 15 weeks. No one...

Question regarding feeding and if I have done my research correctly. I currently have 9 pullets and one little roo that is learning how to crow. They range in age from 10 weeks to 14 weeks. I am almost to the end of my bag of baby chick feed. From what I have researched, it will be best to...

So out of my 8 original chicks, 1 is a confirmed rooster. Im starting to see some red in the comb of "MJ" and wondered what yall thought?

I went to tractor supply. I saw baby chickies. Breeds I do not have And I managed to come out without any chickens. Do I get a cookie? I feel like I need a reward ! Just had to share somewhere where people would understand! Jaybyrd

So the coop ( made from salvaged materials) and the run (reinforced old dog run) are complete and the girls (and possibly one that may be a roo) are loving life! They are figuring out how to go to bed at night! They have an old dog house with sand and dirt for dust baths. An old branch that...

So I'm quickly trying to get my coop down as my girls are out growing their brooder! I have windows on both sides of my coop, covered in hardware cloth. The winters don't get HORRIBLE here ( Raleigh NC) but we can get some nasty wind and sometimes ice and snow. I was trying to think of ways...

Approximately 4 week old Cuckoo Maran.... I know it is so early but I'm worried she is a he... Anyone have a guess? Jaybyrd

Help! First time chicken Mom. All my chicks had silicon ID bands on. I removed all of them but apparently this girl had two and one of them is above her hock ( horse person here...) and it started to grow in! Wasn't swollen 3 hours ago but I noticed lameness snd swelling and that's when I...

So I'm basically in Raleigh NC. Summers are hot humid and miserable some days. My coop is in progress and i want to make sure I have enough ventilation. I'm thinking of making the entire front wall or most of the front wall (that will face the dog kennel that is their run) out of hardware...

Hello everyone! I'm going to be a new chicken Momma! I have an old 10 x 10 x 6 dog kennel that has two doors. The kennel itself has an aluminum roof over half of it and is set on railway ties that are buried about 8 inches into the ground. I'm trying to decide on if I should build their house...

Hi! My name is Jackie and I live near Raleigh NC. I have decided after many years of thinking about it that I want to have a small back yard flock of chickens. I have an old 10 x 10 dog kennel that I am planning on transforming into their house! I do look forward to getting fresh eggs as a...