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How can one differentiate between a wellsummer rooster and a rhode island red rooster? I'm searching online and they seem too similar for me to differentiate. Are their any stark difference you could point out?

My BRLW (or is it BLRW) hen is a roo! I had my very old Easter Egger hen in the separate pen with my future breeding project blue laced Wyandotte hen and on Father's Day she surprised us with an egg (she stopped laying in the winter). Anywho my 6 yr old said "let's try to hatch it". I figured it...

I've got a mixed flock in my chicken run. Juvenile chickens, bantam juveniles, chicks, ducklings & turkeys. I have a shallow kiddie pool with water in it that everyone does fine with. My ducks really try to dive and get fully under water but they can't in the shallow pool. I dug out a deep hole...

I have three very handsome Silver Duckwing roosters that I can't keep, will sell them for $10 each. We only have 2 duckwing hens so I'm doing them a favor and getting rid of the extra roosters. These are young and just starting to crow. Would make a great, rare 4H bird! We are located in the...

This listing is a for 5 hatched Blue Red Laced Wyandotte chicks, these will be sold as straight run (not sexed) for pickup in Southern Illinois. I'm breeding my full blooded 1 yr old Blue Red Laced Wyandotte pair and hatching the eggs this spring so you can add them to your flock! When you pay...

I can't seem to tell if the feathers are curling or not. These are my first silkie/ possible frizzle chicks. They are a barnyard mix so traits are really undetermined. They do all have feathered legs/ feet. The dark ones in the background are puffy cheeked. The dark one with the white face came...

Please ignore the little poop chunk on it :/ Chick is about 9 days old. What do you think?

It's got clean legs and an unusual coloring. Can anyone identify it?

Gah! My shipped bantam silkie eggs hatched, had 5 happy chicks and a kitten got in the brooder and bit the back of a chick. It appears to just be a flesh wound. I bandaged it up and it's resting and probably hurting like mad. Ideas for how I can help?

I won an egg auction last week. Then we had a spell of single digit temps. The seller kindly held the eggs for me so they wouldn't freeze and crack. We'd discussed that some would be older but that they would throw in extras too. I got them today via priority mail 3 day. I paid for 10 and they...

I was gifted an incubator, this isn't my first hatch though ;) However, this will be my first shipped eggs hatch! I bought Silkie eggs, they came 3 day insured, priority mail. A few were cracked. I filed a claim on them. Anyway, I candled them all right away. 4 seem to have detached air cells...

I'm not sure if this is spraddle leg. First I was treating the toes- they curled under and backwards but we got them straightened pretty good with taping them for a few days. When the foot tape came off the leg thing became obvious and I don't know if it's spraddle leg because it's sort of...

Yesterday it all began at about 1pm. We heard cheeping from one egg, then it pipped and later zipped around the egg. While zipping another egg began peeping. This seemed right because out of 7 incubated eggs (this was our first casual attempt) 4 of the eggs weren't optimally stored and they were...

I've been calling meat processors here in southern Illinois all day trying to find someone that will process 40 chickens for me to serve at an upcoming farm event. Initially we had planned to slaughter the birds ourselves and we still could... However, I'm not finding any information regarding...

First, we have 4 very juvenile roosters that are integrating with our existing flock. The 4 roosters are the same age as the 8 hens we also added to the flock. The hens aren't laying but the same aged roosters are crowing and mounting my older laying ladies... So there is that to consider. For...

I have a flock of 6 young broad-breasted turkeys... I believe 4 of them are toms. This week we had a terrible head pecking ordeal that resulted in a badly injured hens? head: http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/updates-on-the-massive-poultry-flock-in-the-tiny-suburban-backyard Anyway, the injury...