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For a few weeks now my Jap BTB Cock's comb has been looking sad. I went out tonight to see his comb very shriveled and purple. His is also rather cold and shivering. His feet are very pale...not close to the beautiful yellow they used to be/are supposed to be. What do I do? I have no clue what...

Does anyone have White bearded Japanese bantams??? If so, are any for sale???

My Little Japaneses Bantam Rooster had a beautiful bright red comb about a week ago. I've noticed his personality has one from lively and cocky to boring and slow in the past few days. Now this morning his comb is all droopy and discolored. The picture below actually makes it look better than...

Hello, I have been battling mites on my three Japanese bantams for about 2 weeks now. I have been spraying them with Adams Plus spray stuff for dogs which I was told to use by a fellow 4-H'er. It has not worked. One of the hens has recently hatched out 5 beautiful peeps and they have the mites...

My now 2 year old Rhode Island Red has begun to act like a Rooster. Sounds crazy right?! Well, within the past 2 weeks or so i've noticed her beginning to attack me when going in the coop to collect eggs(spuring, pecking, etc.). I just figured she was being a hostile mother over her eggs. Until...

I will be recieving a breeding trio of Japanese Bantams in about a week and I am trying to figure out different ways to create their run so that their wing tips and other feathers do not get dirty. I was thinking about a syntheitc grass which will be easy to hose down and clean, and keep the mud...

I've recently removed my Silver Gray Dorking from the flock of 9 hens and 2 other roosters. The hens(not the rooster) viciously attacked Alvins tail to the point where he had no pin feathers and exposed flesh. I was mortified by what his bottom looked like. Luckily it did not effect him using...

I went out to close my coop up tonight and found a RIR hen sitting in the corner of the run laying down, wings slightly/lazily opened. She did not bock, or move the slightest bit when i went to pick her up. I noticed that something was coming or something that was previously coming from her...

i don't have names for them yet but they hatched under their broody momma today while i was at school. I couldn't believe it when i came home and there were 3 baby chickies in my coop!!!!!!!! i am soo excited... does anyone know if i should remove the egg shells from under the broody mom...

So i've been reading on cannibalism and i'm pretty sure thats the problem in my coop right now.*** My broody is sitting on eggs that will hatch in 3 days. Simce Cannibalism is the problem will the other chickens eat the chicks? Or peck them to death??? HELP!!! *** I know Casnnibalism is the...

What makes Silver gray dorkings so rare????

Let's just start off by saying that i ABSOLUTLY LOVE this website. It has helped me out sooo much and all of the people are ahhmazing. I'm glad i found it!!!! Thanks to all you fellow chicken lovers out there!!!!

I went to school yesterday leaving my 2 broodies to sit on their eggs all day without me checking on them every hour to make sure that they were doing and sitting where they were supposed to be. So i came home yesterday and my one broody chenged nests therefore pretty much committing murder on...

My silkie has bee sitting on this assortment of eggs for about 3 days now... this is my first time candling and i'm not sure exactly what i'm seeing. Can anyone tell if there is a chicken developing in one of these eggs? Egg #1...

What all is involved when you are letting a broody silkie sit on 4 eggs... if they hatch will UI have to change the feeed in the coop??? will she protect them from the rooster?? or do i have to seperate them once they hatch???

So check this out... do you think its strange for a silkie hen to have 5 toes on one foot and 4 on the other?????

I posted my problem yesterday and someone told me that it is bumblefoot i'm dealing with. I'm just not sure yet. I need someone with experience or maybe a vet. ~Two days ago i noticed my Silver Dorking Rooster laying down alot. I didn't think much of it other than maybe he was hot from the...

When I woke up nthis morning, my rooster came out of the coop limping. I examined his foot and it appears that he has some kind of growth on it. It's the same color of his skin and it doesn't look sore, but it appears that he is in pain so i'm not sure... I think it looks like a wart almost...

i went down to my coop the other day only to find a small silkie sitting on an egg. 15 min later i go and check on her and i find my fluffy cochin sitting on top of the silkie. they both seemed quite content. thesilkie actually had her head poked through the cochin's wing. anyone witness this...

My hens continuously refuse to lay in the egg boxes!!!!! the boxes have been attached about 6 in from the bottom of the coop to the side andthey didn't lay in them then. I took it out and they would lay on the floor,they lay in their feces, they lay in the mud, outside, in gras, in flower pots...