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First chick hatched late last night. Is it normal it was on day 19? I have Australorp/Lavender Ameracauna cross chicks that all have pipped and are starting to try to get out of their shell, whereas the other crosses I have (sex link/Australorps mostly) I think I have one out of 6 that has...

Hello, Last night I got home to feed and water my flock, and I found a 6 month old easter egger dead. Her vent was wide open, and she had an egg ready to come out. The other chickens had started pecking at her, so she was a little red on her back side as well. Is it typical that a young hen...

Ugh, I'm so happy and frustrated at the same time. At the beginning of last week, my son ran in with a blue/green egg from the hen house. We have four lavender Ameracaunas, that are seven months old, and two easter eggers that are four months old. I assume the egg came from one of my...

Good afternoon, I have four Lavender Ameracauna hens. I have a Black Australorp rooster that I was thinking of letting breed with them, and incubating the eggs. So, for starters, they would be considered an easter egger, correct? And given that Ameracaunas aren't great layers but Australorps...

I have four roosters; a silkie, we call Mama, (we thought he was a girl at first), a Delaware we call Big Boy, and two Australorps that I don't really have names for. Our silkie crows every morning, and half the day. I think I heard a garbled crow this afternoon from a different bird, and am not...

So the other day I posted about getting no eggs, and wondered if it could be the food that I had switched to. I switched back, and yesterday (a bitterly cold and disgusting day weather wise) I got 6 eggs. We got snow overnight, and today I've only gotten 1 egg (out of 14 layers.) What a tease...

Hello everyone! I have 14 laying hens (more that are almost ready to lay, but 14 that SHOULD be laying.) I was getting 8-10 eggs per day out of them, I installed a light to make sure they are getting at least 14 hours per day, etc. I am now getting 2-4 eggs per day. The only thing that has...

My Ameraucanas are about 7 weeks now, and I'm confused as to what I have. There are a couple of them that I think are definitely roosters, but the others I'm questioning. Can you help me out? Thanks!! This is Tonka, one I'm pretty certain is a roo. Tonka with another baby, I think is a...

I have five tiny Austraulorps, and thought I had read somewhere about tail development being an indication of sex. These guys are a couple of weeks old, and three out of the five have tail feathers and two have tiny little poofs (like a poof ball, just downy stuff.) Does that mean anything in...

Okay, I have looked all over and come up short. When doing your own butchering (obviously for private home use), what do you do with the remains of the chickens that can't be used? I looked up the VT dept of Ag., and it said you must follow the law as to disposal, problem is, I can't find what...

Good morning; I'm new to the forum and love every bit of it. My name is Miranda, and I live in VT. I have two children, Mackie is 7, and Tyler is 10. We have 9 White Silkie chicks, and 6 Lavender Ameracauna's. (We started out with 12 silkies; we gave two to my niece and nephew. Their beagle...

Good morning. I just joined the forum, and wow do I love all the information! That being said, I'm pretty new to having my own chickens. (My mom always had some running around, but never silkies.) Can you help me figure out what I might have in my small flock? I'm not sure how hold they are. I...