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I have a 9-week-old Creme Legbar cockerel who's had two toes that are bent 90° sideways since week two or so. At first, I thought "whatever. It's a cockerel. I'll only spare one in the end anyway, I'll just cull the ones with deformities". So I didn't do anything about it. You might already...

A friend of mine found 3 mallard hatchlings by their dead mother and is now raising them, giving them fodder, a heat source, and letting them roam around in an outdoor cage and take the occasional bath. After a very short while they started seeing my friend as their "mother" and follow her...

Hello! I have owned chickens for a decade, and dabbled in muscovy duck keeping. I'm thinking about geese. Now, I know that chickens are highly curious. They hate "boring" runs that only consist of a patch of dirt. Also, chickens have agoraphobia and like to hang out in bushes. Chickens...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/12/chickens-teamed-up-to-kill-fox-at-brittany-farming-school?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR0YSdeTFeZJdY74NEgxasn9RtpdaNnks8qOzCw8sOfwMxJc3bgbSnWIwYo

Jessica Granvik from Sweden just posted this video of her five-day-old chick that... Crows! It's of an autosexing chicken breed (she didn't write which), and if the behavior wasn't enough of a clue, it has the coloration of a little cockerel. There are eleven other siblings in the clutch; three...

Why Roosters Have Wattles Research suggests a rooster’s wattle may help gain a hen’s attention Roosters are funny-looking creatures. They have a red bit that sticks out from the top of their heads—the comb—and another that dangles beneath their chin—the wattle. And then they perform this little...

Experienced chicken-keepers have probably once or twice heard or read that "even a tiny and harmless wound in the comb can bleed a lot", often said as a response to worried chicken-keepers who've had chickens that got their comb caught on a thorn, or perhaps got it cut open during a harmless...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/peacock-crests-are-vibration-sensors/578656/?fbclid=IwAR3VEnPTaxQ-sY1JTBcflqQ_r96kdi0WqROG6BGc5EYRhy-YKhzRtsUyV34

Okay, here's the deal: We've had chickens for years. They were largely free-ranging, but spent a significant amount of time in their run. A fairly "normal" run; mostly soil that was at first covered in grass with the grass later disappearing completely; a few bushes woody enough for the...

NOTE: The chicken in this thread is not mine. A lady on a Swedish chicken forum has for several months continually been posting very interesting images and information about an extremely bad case of scaly leg mite on a hen of hers, which she treated ONLY by applying fat ointment, thereby...

A person on a Swedish chicken forum recently lamented a misfortune that had befallen her, a tragedy which I'm sure a few of you have had the unpleasantness of experiencing: A predator had taken all her chooks but one, a physically healthy albeit as of now completely lonely hen. The owner of said...

In Sweden, we have something we call bruna värphybrider which literally means brown layer hybrids and is a collective term for hybrids such as ISA Brown, Lohmann Brown and Bovan. They all share a number of characteristics: Mid-sized with the exact same shape, size and color; the lay a CRAP-TON...

Since time immemorial, the word "raptor" has - in plain English - been a synonym for "bird of prey". However, it has recently shifted to be mostly a synonym for "dromaeosaur". Before a certain movie came out 1993, when people said "raptors", they meant something like this: However, since a...

This summer, I sold a surplus rooster to an acquaintance who already had chickens. The rooster was young but fully grown, a mix between a Red Sex Link and an Araucana. Out of all the four brothers hatched in that brood, this particular one was the most assertive - he chased his three brothers...

Just imagine how many species they can intebreed with... Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2203061516630474&set=a.1538115776458388&type=3&theater&ifg=1

An acquaintance of mine sent me this. The whole flock was hatched from eggs some months ago, the grey one has always been a good rooster.

In other words, how do I make a lot of money off my passion for chickens? "Start a chicken farm" is perhaps the most obvious answer, but the joy of chickens will probably disappear with a soulless chicken-farm with thousands of birds. Do I sell eggs? Breed breeds? Start a consultant business...

Occasionally one comes across a chicken with one or more toes that are twisted along the toe's length. A bit like this image I found online: Mostly the bending is less extreme. My question is simply whether the chicken in question suffers when they have feet like this? If I were to guess...

A lady from Germany by the name of Kornelia Jochimski posted some images of her Ga Dong Tao chickens in a Swedish chicken group, referring to them as the "less extreme version". As many of you know, Dong Tao is the coolest chicken breed. It's from Vietnam and is bred for eating, particularly...

I found this adorable little article (at least, adorable until the end) in a Swedish magazine and took the liberty of translating it into English. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/a2Q7v7/krakan-asa-flyttade-in-i-honshuset-var-lite-radd-for-andra-krakor Åsa The Crow Moved Into The Hen...