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I hope these are good enough. My 7week old starlight green egger. Just not sure yet. My other two (not the same breed) are much easier to tell if they are girls. When do the tail and saddle feathers start? Does anyone know this breed. She is much longer and skinnier than her sisters. Girl boy?

She keeps getting eggbound. Had an extremely hard time a few weeks ago. She had two eggs blocked. I managed to get her fixed, and had an infection for which I tried Tylan. It worked and she slowly got better. She hasn't laid for about 3 weeks. But her first egg got bound again, I managed to...

Ok, let me explain: I got these two chickens together, they go everywhere and follow one another around all day long. The one has already started laying and was pretty consistent, skipping a day a week. Today is the third day she isn't laying. Her BFF is finally getting ready to lay, and has...

Hey guys! The last two days one of my chickjens suddenly started laying her eggs in a different box than all the rest. She seems fine. So, do the all the others in the other box. Just curious as to whether this could signal a potential problem? Anyone know?

Hey guys! I've got a question or two. I had to do work on my coop yesterday and it involved fumes. I closed them off in their cage portion, (I cannot leave them free range, I have about 20 hawks in the neighboring trees) and left the coop open and the windows open and a fan on it. I am...

Hey guys! This is really no big deal. But I am just curious. My girls seem to not like the sun. In the summer, I thought it was just the heat, but now it is freezing and they still run under the coop and out of the sun. I have to still put my tarp up to block the sun and then they will come out...

Hey guys! I have a brown leghorn and she's been showing signs. today she went into the nestboxes again and was 'singing'. she's been in there for about 3 hours I think, unless she's been hopping out in between me checking on her. She was signing loudly and her birth buddy was signing with her...

Hi, guys! So far my chicks are growing nicely and we should have an egg or two anytime now. That is if they don't wait til spring. As some of you may remember, I have absolutely no shade for the poor things. We managed fine this summer, but I was wanting a fairly quick growing full tree to help...

Hi guys! Had something strange happen last night. When I went out to put the girls to bed and lock their coop up for the night. Ginger (the 10 week old golden comet) wasn't in her usually place on the roost. The Queen was there instead. She was laying in the pine under the roost. This morning...

Hello..my turn! 10 week old, black sexlink. Now, I know these are made to be sexed. I didn't have a question til I saw shin, irredescent feathers on her back down towards her back half. Not sure you can catch it in these shots. The other is a silver laced Wyandotte, same age. Leaning towards...

Hey guys! Thanks for all your help. This site is invaluable for beginners! I just got my 6x9 enclosure, and the grass is almost gone now. the poop is matting on the ground and I have to rake it up. I have wood chips and grass clippings (that are wet today, cuz it finally rained). Is there a...

Hey guys! Last Friday, I noticed that one of my older chicks had some orangey/reddish 'blood' in her poop. It was still formed, so if it was Coccidosis, I caught it early. Not sure it was or if it was intestinal lining. I did not observe any worms in any one's stool. I started them all on...

Hi guys! I have 5 chicks. The two older ones should be laying in about a month. The youngest ones are 3 weeks younger than them. I did have an organic feed I found from new country organics. We have celiac and noticed that my throat is scratchy and I am feeling ickier than normal since I have...

This is Blue. She honks. I was worried at first, but she does it purposely. Is it true it may signal impending egg laying? Whatever it is, it is adorable!

Hey guys! I am anxiously anticipating the delivery of my enclosure and am trying to prepare my home depot list for the other things I will need. I think I would like to have the wood mulch in the run, with my grass clippings and fall leaves. I am raising them organically. Do I have to get...

Hi everyone. This morning I noticed a small handful of feathers. I think they are from from 6 week old Rhode Island Blue. I am not noticing any bare patches, and he gets along well with the brown leghorn. I know young chicks go through a small molt, could this be it? My other concern is that...

Look what I just found! Does anyone have any experiences with any of these people? https://shop.backyardfeedco.com/collections/chicken I am just concerned about the corn in it, with the hot summers here in the south. So I went looking for a corn free option. and found these people. Free...

It's very hot in GA today, the only one that seems to mind it is my brown leghorn. They have a tarp cover pvc tractor wit the ends open in the direction of the wind. every hour i add ice to their water, I put a pan of shallow water with in it for her, I even made a berry smoothie. the leghorn...

Hello, I have pine bedding in my coop and brooder, and I was on another forum and they were saying that pine can cause resp issues in your birds. But no one has answered me as to why and what else I can use? So far they seem fine with the pine bedding, I clean under their roosts every morning...

Hi guys! I just started transitioning my older birds to the coop I built. And behind the curtain is their nestboxes. They are taking to jumping on the curtain/shower rod and roosting too, which means they will poop in the nestboxes if their bums are over it. Should I put a piece of plywood...