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Right now we are down to a single peahen so we have been keeping a couple chickens in with her in her run to keep her company. Right now we have a standard cochin hen and roo in there and I've been leaving the eggs so the hen will hopefully go broody. Today we found this egg on the ground in...

This particular chick hatched out yesterday and seemed fine. This afternoon I found him in the brooder stuck on his back. At first I just thought his equilibrium was a little off from being stuck upside down, but after holding him upright for about an hour he still wants to tuck his head up...

Hubby and I came home from the store to find our black standard cochin roo hiding in the corner of the barn in kinda bad shape. He had obviously been in a fight with our white cochin roo (he has only a few scratches and is currently in "chicken jail") The black roo has a few places on his comb...

My biddies are due today so I went out to peek under mama broody to see if there had been any progress. What I found was an egg that she had obviously stepped on. The membrane was still intact, but the shell was all broken and had some missing. I really expected it to be dead, then I saw it...

My neighbor just gave me this pair of bantams. I'd love to know what kind they are. Thanks, Jess

We had the chickens out free ranging while we were out in the yard working today and this is what started circling overhead. A couple swooped in close enough to see that they're red tails. We counted 16, only managed to get 15 in a picture. Needless to say, the chickens got put up REAL...

One of my peahens that just turned a year old in May layed her first egg yesterday. I know it didn't come from any of my chickens because there is NO way they could have gotten into the peafowl coop (not to mention none of my chickens lay eggs that big ) I know it had to be her because my only...

I had been feeding my hens a combo of wild game scratch, oyster shells, boiled eggs, and everything else they find while they free-range from dawn till dusk. I have fed them layer pellets in the past, before I had a surplus of eggs to feed them and they acted just fine. I decided about a month...

A couple days ago my husband found one of our 5 day old cochin chicks sitting in the food bowl flailing it's head. Assuming it was choking he rubbed it's neck and got it chirping again. It held its head to the right side and wouldn't hold it up straight, though if you pushed it up it didn't...