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My broody had two eggs under her, the other hens kept laying in here nest so I had them marked. This morning I went to collect the other eggs from her and noticed broken eggshell! My first thought was "oh no, she got too hungry and ate an egg! ". Haha, I didn't think it had been long enough...

I just noticed these black/blue and some white bumps/spots on my roo's comb and wattle. Then I checked the ladies and a couple of them have some too. They are all acting fine. What are these? Should I be concerned? Thanks.

I have two 7 month olds that I got 2.5 weeks ago to add to our 3 month olds(replacing the roos). One of them has laid an egg almost every day since then. The other one laid one or two at first and hasn't laid any since. Is this normal when they first start laying or is something wrong with her...

I have 8 week old chicks, with 4 suspect roos (out of 7! great odds, huh? ). One is crowing, so I am pretty sure he is a roo! lol Another one is behaving very badly...very aggressive toward the other chickens and he is trying to mount them already! Then I have two others that might be roos...

We went out of town this weekend and had to leave our 3week old chickens by themselves. My DH asked a friend to check on them and to make sure they had food and fresh water. Well we got home late last night and the first thing I did was go to check on the chicks...they had absolutely NO food, my...

I have seven 2 week old chicks that I don't know the sex of. I know it's still way early to tell if (or more Like how many) I haves any roos. But the one pictured below already has a comb way bigger and redder than the rest. What is your opinion? It's supposed to be a sex link chick, which I...

I got 7 baby chicks on Monday from a local "farm" and they are oh so cute! They are probably about 5 days old now. I got 2 BR, 1 RIR, 2 BR/RIR crosses and 2 sex link chicks (are these BRs? I got them b/c she said they were for sure females!) All is going well so far, I just have a few...

I have been wanting to have chickens for a while but my husband didn't go for it until now! I would like to get about six chicks but I live in Florida and am worried it is too hot for chicks right now. It has been in the upper 80's or 90's during the day. Our friend is letting us borrow a...