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I have a 7 month rooster that was fine until yesterday. He couldn't stand up and would fall to the back or side. I noticed a lump on the top of his head on one side of his comb. He will drink when I bring water to him and eat treats if placed in front of him but otherwise flops around to...

We have 3 original hens that are 2 years old and introduced new chickens this spring. The new chickens are 2 hens and 3 roosters (did not intend to keep extra roosters)The new ones are 12 weeks old. We just rehomed the two extra roosters and kept the least dominant one that lets us hold him...

We got 6 hatching eggs. 3 hatched the gold color and 3 hatched lemon. I am not sure the feather color is coming out sex linked but can anyone tell from comb and wattles what these are? I am suspecting that gold #2 is a female. Thanks! They all seem to be quite bold and independent. A few...

I candled my eggs today since I had them out to weigh them to confirm correct humidity. These are shipped eggs and my first time incubating eggs so I'm not sure what to expect. There is veining on all of them but I'm not sure it is in the correct spot and is it suppose to be darker on the...

I find ordering new chicks so much fun. I have a small backyard (front yard) flock and just ordered 4 new chicks for the spring. I am excited to learn what you ordered/plan to order or are excited for the 2023 year. I ordered a salmon faverolle, a bielefeder, a buff orpington and a lakeside...

I went to collect eggs this morning and found this strange think in with the eggs. My chickens are a year old and have been laying since January. I had a couple of broody chickens this spring but all are broken and I have been waiting for one to begin laying again. I have attached a picture...

My wyandotte has been laying for about a month. And her eggs have always been small. They have also had that opaque white film (calcium deposit) occasionally. She also has a roughness to her shells on most but not all of her eggs. The roughness is from dark brown spots on light brown eggs...

I am a new chicken owner and thought that Ameraucana's layed blue eggs. Our Ameraucana that we got as a chick from Meyer's just laid it's first egg and it is pretty solid green. Does anyone have any experience with this? We love the chicken, she is very cute and spunky but I was surprised...

We were so excited to get our first egg today until we picked it up and found that there was a hole in it (what a disappointment). I have read that it is really hard to break the habit of chickens pecking their eggs and I'm hoping that we are not going in that direction. Could it be that she...

I am a new chicken owner. We have 6 chickens of mixed breeds (polish, wyandotte, ameracuana, marans, barnevelder, orpington) all female and 2.5 months old. About 2 weeks ago we noticed that the polish chicken was missing some feathers on her head. We thought that she had injured it by running...

I am a new chicken owner (chicks not quite here yet) and have a question about my coop/run setup. My coop/run is located at the edge of our woods and is covered. During construction we had leveled the land with topsoil and it became compacted. I had heard that chickens do best in their natural...

I'm getting my first chicks next week from Meyer's Hatchery. We are getting 6: white crested polish, barnevelder, ameracuana, lavender orpington, black copper marans, blue laced red wyandotte. We have been looking forward to and planning this since last year (like many others I'm sure :) We...