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Hi all: I know the heat is making us all cranky, but one of my hen's has an injury from being pecked (repeatedly?) on her head, now her comb is partially torn and head is bloody. I don't have the ability to separate her, we have only one coop with attached run. I put antibiotic ointment on...

I love the thought of feeding my girls organic. I went to the feed store an bought a mixture of whole grains, in the rations prescribed in a post here. Oats, shelled peanuts, milo, flax, cracked corn, black oiled sunflower seeds, millet, and wheat. They LOVE it! I bought some lentils and...

We took our 15 chicks to a friend's farm today to help with sexing. We can't keep roosters here, so I thought it would be a good time to "make the cut". They were born on May 11th which makes them 7 weeks old today. We came home with 8. It was a 2.5 hour round trip and I'm sure they were...

We have 12 chicks in the same brooder, a rubbermaid 35 gallon. They are 20 days old. I am going today to get two more containers to split them up. Is the overcrowding the reason we woke up this morning to find one with a bloody stump left of a (very small) tail???? Are they turning on each...

5.5wk old Rhode Island. Feathered nicely, very calm and fun bird. The other RIR, same age Old English Game Bantam, hatched April 29th.

what age would you name your chicks im talking anout like knowing what gender and knowing who's who.

i have 30 chicks hatched and they are all in the incubator crowding each other!

i have new baby chicks i dont know what to do help1!!!!!!!!! WE have seven that just hatched two are pecking through ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! when can we take the chicks out of the incubator i mean there are still some eggs that havent hatched what if chicks are in there i dont...

some of my eggs hatched what do i do?????!!!!!! we have seven so far two are just now pecking out what would you do???!!!! HELP!!!!. .

When will the roosters start making noices. i have baby chicks we think one is a rooster and we are going to keep him until he's loud. in my area we aren't aloud to keep roosters. he is the cutest thing alive we hope he's not a rooster. DOES ANYONE KNOW THE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION??????

Our week old RIR chicks are flying to the top of their feeder, and then hop to the edge of their brooder...a large rubbermaid bin. Now what?????? Screen the top???? Stinkers! (Cute stinkers, though.....I'm really kind of proud.....) I just want to keep them safe. I don't want to come home to...

how can you tell wether it's a boy or girl (hen or rooster)?