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So about a month ago our white Chinese weeder goose hatched out about 8 goslings. 2 of the goslings took a long time hatching (as in half the shell was off and they just wouldn’t come out of the egg). I went back the next morning and the one was dead and the other was near death. As I was...

Does anyone have any idea what this is? It's like a hole but is solid like sand or gravel. It feels granular but is clearly an indentation. It was laid sometime today in the nest box, so it's not old. There's no leaking or anything.

We had a fox issue a few weeks back. One evening when we went to lock everyone up we found our americauna rooster laying in front of the coop with his feet in the air missing feathers and generally not looking good. There were no obvious wounds so my husband put him in the coop. He spent the...

We got 5 ducks from a family who were not allowed to keep them any more. They did not know anything about what breeds they were. We assume the giant white one is a Pekin. We are guessing the middle one with the color on its wing is a Rouen? And are unsure about the all brown one. Could it be a...

We have one lone guinea (a male) who wandered down from the neighbors and decided he'd rather live with us. We've had him for about 4 months happily coliving with all of our other poultry (15 chickens, a turkey hen and a tom turkey). About 3 weeks ago we got 6 1 week old keets and moved them...

We have both our tom and our hen sitting on eggs in our coop. Today the tom came running from the coop with an egg in his mouth (already broken). He took it pretty far from the coop and then tried to eat it before I could get it from him. As soon as I got back to the coop the hen came bolting...

Our turkey hen is currently sitting on a clutch of eggs - 7 turkey, 12 guinea fowl, and a duck. She's bee on them for about 2 weeks now. Our Tom sleeps in the same coop at night, usually on the roost keeping an eye on her. 2 Days ago, however, he started sitting in her nest box with her. This...

We recently lost 4 of our 5 chickens to a fox attack. The remaining chicken tried to coop up with a turkey hen on her nest after the attack and was packed pretty badly. She had roughly a half dollar sized hole in her skin (you could see muscle). We brought her into our screened off back porch...

We're getting some day olds in next weekend. We recently lost a bunch of hens to a fox attack and now have only one lonely and traumatized hen left. Would it be possible to have her raise the day olds or is it better to just raise them ourselves?

We have a turkey who just started to sit on her nest the day we got some guinea eggs in to hatch. I was just wondering if it's ok to let her hatch out the guineas along with her turkey eggs? We currently only have one guinea fowl (a male). Will he raise the keets when they hatch? We also have a...

So we just had a horrific murder in our coop last night (before we could lock it up for the evening). All but one of our chickens gone from a fox. Needless to say the one remaining chicken is quite traumatized and sits in a corner of the coop in fear jumping at the slightest disturbance (she...

We have a pair of Royal Palm turkeys that are getting ready to lay eggs. While we have a very lovely strawy nest area set up for her in a safe location, she seems to be building her own nest in some brambles by our creek. Is it ok to move the eggs back into a sheltered area after she lays...

We have 4 chickens and a semi-portable coop. We're going to be moving soon to a place with much more land and more of an ability to free range our girls. When we move should we keep the girls locked in their coop for a few days again to ensure they go back to the coop at night or is this not...

Hi all, We dove in to backyard flock a little over a year ago and absolutely love our chickens. We decided we wanted to start raising some Standard Bronze turkeys this year. Can any one recommend a good book for a turkey newbie and/or good online resources? Thanks!

We had an issue yesterday with one of our chickens and one of our dogs. Somehow one of the girls got out and my dog was the first to discover. We heard the chicken squawk and ran outside right away and rescued her and promptly returned her to her fenced area. While there were no bites or...

We have 4 Ameraucana hens that are all about 4-5 months old. They recently started laying. Earlier this week we noticed that one of our chickens, Billie, was developing a bald spot directly under her beak. The rest of her feathers are full and fluffy. The skin has never looked red or bloody...

We just got our first egg from one of our Ameraucanas. It's light blue and oh so very exciting. I know the size of the eggs will get bigger but does color become deeper the older they get or is it going to stay pretty much the same?

Hello. We just started the awesome experience of keeping chickens about a month ago. We started out with two hens and then decided to get 2 more this past weekend. When we designed the coop we designed it to be big enough for 4 hens to sleep in (they have a large free range section of the yard...

Just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks. We're new to chickens and this site/forum was very helpful in our decision to make the jump. We're still in the process of building our coop but hope to have a couple of hens before too long.