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Thanks so much for taking time to answer the skin/shank/vent I've read about and seen as a child but I had not heard about the "eye ring test" And honestly I do want meat and eggs but more than that I want this first time having chickens to be good for my family and the chickens! We are very...

Thanks Lazy G., is this a true statement in your experience? Does it take 6 weeks for the first primary feathers (and those that follow "two weeks later") to return? And when a chick first gets it's primary wing feathers if they come in 1 at a time vs. 2 at a time can that help determine which...

Well after all the reading on other threads I thought I'd get more than one opinion, lol :) No offense to you Life in my home area Chicago land (born in Elgin).

Hi, I've been reading up on of all things chicken :) And in a book by Jay Rossier he states that by observing a chickens wing feathers during the molt one can determine if a hen will be a "soft" or "hard" molter. He says that fast molters will have more than 1 wing feather at a time lost and...