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In mid May, we'll be picking up 8 Crested Cream Legbar (CCL) pullets and straight-run Black Copper Marans from a breeder, leaving only white and olive to round out our egg rainbow. The week after we pick up the breeder babies, the farmers co-op has Cream Brabanter chicks from Ideal on the...

Our big Brahma cockerel (9 months) is causing feather damage on one of our Easter Egger pullets (6 months). Is this bad enough for her to wear a saddle, or would you wait? Should her back be more bald first? I'd prefer not to make a chicken wear anything other than her own feathers (and this...

I'm so grateful the local veterinary practice was willing to step out of their comfort zone to do a fecal test on my Easter Egger's slightly bloody poop after I thought I maybe saw worm fragments in it. But what on earth are "trica/strongiles"?? The tech pronounced it "trick-a-strong-gillies"...

Will any roosters of the following breeds definitely not get along with other roosters in a bachelor area with no hens in sight? Welsummer Barnevelder Breda Black Copper Marans Ameraucana Silver Gray Dorking Hamburg Silverudd’s Blue Bantam Brahma Barred Rock Salmon Faverolle Brown Leghorn...

Our Brahma cockerel has a distinctive, low-pitched crow. I've not heard another like it...until yesterday, when he crowed, and there was a faint echo of his crow through the woods. It happened a few times, but we're building a little homestead, I'm exhausted, so I chalked it up to losing my...

Does anyone have Langshans from Ideal Poultry of laying age and can share pictures of their eggs? When did they start laying and how much do they lay? We have 3, 19-week old pullets whose combs are barely rosy in comparison to our Brahma pullets that age. Guessing it'll be a bit until they give...

Hi and thanks to everyone for sharing so much information. I was reading posts long before bringing our first 7 chicks home in east Tennessee this winter. They're in the coop now and healthy thanks in part to the wealth of advice and thoughts shared here. We've started with 3 Black Langshan...