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I purchased peeps from my local tractor supply on July 27. This one is not growing or developing. All the others have tail feathers and wing feathers, and feathers on their chest. This little girl eats and drinks and poops and tries to keep her self in the middle of her much larger sisters. But...

4 yr old SLW. Her comb and wattles started looking pale a few days ago. Now for the past two days, she has been puffed up like a ball, often her eyes are closed, and she isn't moving around very much. I don't think she has laid an egg in the last two years, I have kept her around because she...

4 yr old red star. Two weeks of poopy butt. I have given her two warm bath/soaks trying to clean her up. She eats a little, but does not get up on the roost at night to sleep. What do you think it is? What else can I do to help her? Or is it time to end her suffering?

I have a four year old red sex link. Her backside has been very poopy, and she walks slow and labored. I have soaked her in a warm tub twice, cleaned her backside but she is not improving. Now her posture seems off; tail very low, almost dragging. I have seen her eat a little. Comb and wattles...

I have a mixed flock of 20 hens and 3 roos, some 2 yr olds and some 1 yr olds. At night they are locked in a run/coop and during the day they free range in my fenced in yard. For months, one of my yr old EEs flies over the fence and lays her eggs in a "hidden nest". One of my 2 yr old BAs...

Ya'll were so kind and helpful to this nervous firstimer yesterday! Momma hen is taking good care of her one chick that hatched. She's still diligently sitting on 3 more eggs. How long should I give them? I never candled, just left things up to nature and the momma hen. Will she just...

this is my first flock (1 yr olds) and first broody (buff orp). I gave her 5 fertile eggs in a dog crate inside the coop. just checked on her and found 3 eggs and 1 wet baby chick! the chick is peeping, but is still on its back. the momma gave it a couple pecks. how do I tell if she's...

I have a mixed flock of 13 hens about 10 months old. Went out to collect eggs, and one of my Red Stars is standing in the nest, and is all puffed up. She did not even move a feather when I picked her up (she's usually quite fiesty) I felt her underside and backside thinking maybe she's...

I shared an order of chicks from McMurray. (my very first chicks ever!) They arrived a week ago Monday, all alive and active. Of the 13 chicks I kept, one Dominique chick seems to be struggling. She is quite a bit smaller than the others, although she was the smallest to begin with. From...

Got my order of fuzzybutts from McMurray this morning. Everyone is healthy...eating, drinking, pooping, napping. Just noticed the tiniest of the Dominiques is a bully! She's going around pecking at the eyeballs of the other chicks. I pick her up for a few minutes, hoping to distract her, but...

We are expecting our very first chicks from McMurray tomorrow. Brooder is all set up and ready. I'll pick them up at the PO early in the morning, get them settled, but then I have to go to work I'll be home around 1:30 pm, so I'm hoping they'll be fine for those 5 1/2 hrs or so. I ordered 2...

Hello! I've been reading posts on this site for months, and scouring all your coop design photos to gather ideas. Visited a local breeder yesterday to gather more info. Hubby has been gathering building supplies for my coop, and we hope to build it and have it occupied by mid spring...