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Hi, I have a small backyard flock of 6 healthy 18 weekolds and 2 1 year olds. My friend went on vacation and is boarding her 2 2 year old hens with me (ee and sebright). I put them in their own isolated run/coop. The EE has developed cocci symptoms after 10 days here. The other one is looking...

~6 weeks ago, I plucked 4 chicks from the "americana pullets" bin at the feed store. We all know that means EEs, and I'm also starting to think the 2nd word was off-base as well. #2 and #3 puff up their chests and fly at each other a lot, but #2 always starts it. #3 has bigger spur buds than...

My full size fluffball 10 month old buff cochin has been laying fairly consistently for three months now. But she's still laying small, narrow, pullet-type eggs. I have a Welsummer who is the same age, and started laying at the same time, and her eggs were only like that for about two weeks, now...

I see a lot of people trying to sex non-sexlink birds at this age around here, and was wondering what the success rate is on guessing/sexing the birds at this age? Last year I had 4 chicks and guessed that 2 were definitely pullets , 1 was probably a pullet and 1 was a cockerel at about 4 weeks...

So today I got 4 ee chicks from the feed store and of course, my family is super excited - especially the 6 year old. We lost her favorite hen last week, so we need replacements. right? or is this how chicken math starts? We also want 4 blue andalusian chicks, but they come in 2 weeks later...

So, my 10 month old blue andalusian hen just died. I have two hens left. The one who died was fine yesterday, and when my daughter and I went to check on the chickens this morning, we found her out of the coop, on the ground (but inside a cage of 1/2" welded wire). I checked for mites and found...

hi everyone. I'm happy to have found this board, I think like 17 of my questions were answered by reading the previous posts. I still have a few, so I can annoy y'all with them later. I have 3 pullets/hens (buff cochin, welsummer, and blue andalusian) - they are now 6 months old and all have...