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Hello ya'll, I am a new chicken momma located in Quincy ca. Ive been following on fb for a while now and you all have convinced me to go all in 🤣. Just throw any important information my way that you wish you had known as a first time chicken parent 🐔 🐥

I was wondering if frathers like this are normal or should i look into it? She has just got done hatching 14 eggs and has been about 2 days since last one came out. She seems normal other than have lost weight. She used to have really smooth feathers though not like this condition.

2 of my 3 hens went broody and now co-raise 5 chicks. All my hens are different breeds and so I can see which chick biological belongs to who. All the chicks belong to the 2 parenting hens, who both lay white eggs. However, the other hen's brown eggs were in the nest too, in fact two hatched but...