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Wiki says Wyandottes have strawberry combs but I have a couple of black and white hens (from a previous owner so idk the hatchery) with cushion combs. At first I thought they might be Sussex hens but that breed is single comb. Then maybe Brahmans? But no feathered legs and those guys are pea...

If I have a flock of 90 hens and 50 or so are displaying signs of leg mites, do I have to treat all 90 hens for leg mites, or can I get away with only treating the 50 who are displaying signs of leg mites?

I have a flock (gold comets, leg horns, black stars, barred rocks, welsummers, EEs) that's a mix of two year old hens and one year old hens. The gold comets are all the two year old hens I believe and the rest are one year olds. I've noticed that while several of the hens show signs of leg mite...

I've read quite a few articles from pet chicken owners giving advice on how to treat bumble foot. I know it can eventually spread to the bone or the blood or something and make the chicken go lame, so it is a concern that generally can't just be ignored until it goes away. Most articles talk...

I just want to know if this is blood and if I should be concerned. I feel like I've seen their poop look slightly orange before on occasion but I'm on extra alert because we just lost a pullet to some sort of respiratory infection and we have another in sick bay so I'm looking at anything as a...

I am ashamed to say that I only just found out that ISA is an acronym standing for Institut de Sélection Animale and not in fact just a cool name that some people capitalize. Now given, I have only been working with chickens for about a year and a half and I'd only ever heard of ISAs about half...

This guy's eight weeks and was meant to be a leghorn. Obviously not a leghorn. We got him from Hoover's. What breed is he?

Hi all! I'm raising a batch of chicks in a brooder at a farm. We ordered welsummers, easter eggers, isa browns, and leghorns(although the leg horns ended up actually being cornish crosses but that's another story!). When the isa browns and welsummers came, one of the chicks did not look like the...

Hi I'm raising 188 chicks at a farm. They're seven weeks old and we're starting construction on their coops. The plan is to build a millennium feathernet. I don’t know much about the feathernet (I'm not in charge) but my understanding is that it's an open air plan. I've been told we'll be using...

Hello this is my first time raising chicks. I work at a farm and we received a shipment of 300 or so layer chicks five weeks back. Around 70 of them were leghorns, 25 are welsummers, 100 are isa browns, and 100 are various easter eggers. We have been raising them in a brooder inside our...

This is my first time raising chicks; I work at a farm so we're raising around 300 which are about five weeks old now. Some of the chicks have this whitish clumping stuff on their butts. I'm not sure if it's diarrhea or something else or if it's related to feather wounds (we've had some issues...

Hi this is my first time raising chicks and everything has been going okay for the most part but I'm starting to experience issues with pecking since the chicks have begun feathering out. I work at a farm so we're raising around 300 chicks in a big brooder in our greenhouse. Around 70 of them...

Hello all! I am having quite a few issues currently with the health of one of my chickens. She must have been recently attacked by a hawk or something because I found her hunched over in the corner of my coop with a wound in her back. This is going to sound a bit crazy but she has also lost all...