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I am stumped! Penguin hatched out of a mystery egg from My Pet Chicken. The egg was blue-green and Penguin hatched looking like, well a Penguin, hence the name. He/She (?) was HUGE when compared to the other hatch mates, all Isabelle Orpingtons. So thoughts on breed and gender? I am leaning...

I have been transitioning my chicks outside for the past week. I have set up a dog crate in the run so everyone can get to know everyone. I have been taking the babies out in the evening and dutifully putting them in a separate section of the coop for the night. It was all going really well so...

Hi all So I have been reading the board but am not sure if this is a slipped tendon. When I try to feel if the tendon has slipped I cannot feel anything that seems out of place. I also cannot push anything back in place. When I run my finger over the flat side of the joint, it feels like the...

Just in case anyone thought (like I did) that these work. I have a new coop that my 4-week old chicks have only spent a few days in. I have been taking them in at night because I do not have the machine cloth fully installed. Last night I added red-blinking predator lights and some motion...

Yeah, I know it's a weird assortment, but I know what I like. Starting a new coop after a couple of big moves where I had to rehome my existing flock. I prefer to hatch my birds so I am looking for eggs only. Must be able to ship to Illinois. Thanks

Hi all I've got a very pretty and very large Lemon Cuckoo Orpington cockerel who has just started crowing. He's got to go. I am in the SF Bay area but will consider shipping him for the right home. Here is a not all that great pic of him. I'll try for a better one today.

My sweet and slightly goofy 6 month old Frizzled Polish Tolbunt cockerel, Rick O'Chicken, has found his lungs. We'd hoped he would have permanently lost them but no, there they are. In the interest of neighborhood peace, I'm going to re-home him. I don't have a recent pic of him but here he is...

Hello all I've got some of the results of my overly enthusiastic testing of my Brinsea incubator. The Silver Campine pullets and the SP Rock cockerel are from DieFly Ranch eggs. Very pretty birds. They were from our this year's NY Eve Hatchathon and are now 22 weeks. No eggs yet from the...

Hi All I'm looking for a new home for my two cockerels: Heloise and Abelard. They are a heritage breed: Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks and are 23 weeks old (almost 6 months). They are friendly and very pretty, but now that they've found their voices, they have got to go! I'm sure my neighbors...

OK, so I have lost my first chicken to a predator. 8(...or I think I have. After making a bullet (and racoon)-proof coop with red, blinking, warning lights; I lost my smallest chicken to a hawk. At least I am pretty sure she was grabbed by a hawk. She is completely AWOL and there were no...

I dunno. I think it may have happened. I looooove my chickens. I Ioooove your chickens...I love them all! I find myself scouring YouTube for chicken videos (Chickens of Fire is definitely my fav). I post hilarious chicken anecdotes to FaceBook...my friends reply..."***, Dude?" But I love...

So, I'm a newbie chicken person but a long time dog owner. When I set up the brooder I wanted to be sure that my dog (an Australian Cattle dog mix) would see the chicks as her herd and not as prey. So I moved her bed next to the brooder and there she has been sleeping for the past 5 weeks. I...

So, I swear we have the Boneless Chicken ranch chick. 8( We've got a chick, the only one that hatched out of our first attempt, that has not stood yet, has curled toes and lies like a Gary Larsen-class boneless chicken. Here is a pic of him today about 30 hrs post-hatch. I figure that the...

Hi All! I am a new chicken wanna-be-owner from the SF Bay area. I dove in to the whole chicken-thing and tomorrow is hatching day! Or maybe it is. 8) I hope that I have not made too many mistakes and the babies are okay. I've two sets of eggs incubating now, an assortment from...