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(This message was added 1/18/2024. Before you vote or comment; please see post #32, which contains the most recent photos.) Before I post photos and information regarding my current androgynous chicken, here is a link to the previous thread that this thread title refers to...

In the first video, the chicks are 7 days old, and I have just put some scrambled egg inside their pen for the very first time. Though their mom does her best to entice them, her chicks are completely clueless. In the second video, these chicks are 14 days old, and this is only the second...

I found a hen inside a nest box a couple of hours ago obviously straining to expel an egg. Picked her up and saw slight prolapse, and yellow egg yolk drained from her vent. Brought her inside and immediately gave calcium citrate tablet and did epsom salts soak. Contractions began just now...

Big Girl is a lavender Orpington. First of all, "she" has extremely shredded feathers due to lavender color genetics. But that's the least of her issues. Big Girl was one of a dozen straight run chicks purchased March 2018. Within a few months, it became obvious that five were males. That...

Matilda Marans had an accident last month during Texas' all-time low record temperatures. I have read threads on frostbite before, & saw the sad photos of poultry losing /having lost their feet. The main thing i made note of after reading those threads was to make sure my chickens couldnt...

Matilda Marans caught her spur on a metal dog cage during a recent prolonged severe freeze. When i let her flock out around 8am, the temperature was 3 degrees. I found her hanging upside down, suspended only by her right spur, around 1pm. By that time the temp was mid-20s. When i found her...