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2 years ago my husband bought me a bouquet of flowers and in it was this clipping and idk the name of it. I removed the other flowers long ago when they wilted but this one didn't change so I left it in water and after a few months it still looked fresh as if it was just plucked so I've left it...

Since this past Saturday I've collected 3 eggs that have come out with the shell bloody. They've all come from 3 separate hens, 1 white egg and 2 different tan eggs but each only laid the 1 bloody egg and the rest come out clean. I've never seen this before but I wanted to double check if this...

Can someone advise me on what I can safely use around my chicken's to get rid of ants. An ant hill has come up along the fence line of the run right next to the coop and they have been getting inside the coop but most keep swarming around the waterers. Normally when they come up around the yard...

My hen hatched 6 chicks and she's just gone to roost and left them alone and all day kept pecking at them to go away. The chicks are only 2 weeks and 3 days old so I'm concerned they might be too young to be alone. I checked the weather for the next 10 days and we'll be having highs between...

I created a post before to help identify these 3 white pullets and the responses were either white rocks or white leghorns. Today I noticed their earlobes are turning a light blue almost turquoise color. My pictures don't show the color very well but does this help identify which breed they are?

I found a dead chick under my broody and I'm trying to guess how long it's been there. Her chicks just started hatching last night or earlier today and this one looks like it was fully formed but it was flat and dehydrated and barely starting to smell like a dead animal so I know it's been dead...

My eggs are coming from my own flock and they are fine when I put them out under the hen but when I candle them at day 7 some have detached air cells. They aren't fully detached but appear somewhat saddled. Is there any way to tell what's causing this and how to prevent it? Out of about 30 eggs...

I've got a first time broody and she is the most feisty broody I've had yet, she attacks me if I go in the coop so I'm moving her to an isolated coop where she can brood alone in peace. Well today I was trying to get things ready so it'll be easier to mover her and the eggs after dark and I was...

I have 2 broody hens that were sitting on eggs, when I last candled them there were at least 6 eggs that were alive and now all the eggs are gone. The eggs were set on May 12th or 13th so this coming Fri-Sat would have been hatch day, my husband put them out this time instead of me and I forgot...

I have a silver laced wyandotte whose comb is completely smoothe with a indented circle at the top. Neve seen anything like it before and not finding anything online about defects.

All are 3 1/2 months old now, looking for help identifying breed and gender of all of them. 1. I got these 3 white ones and they were labeled as Cornish X but I know they obviously aren't since they never got fat like meat birds are supposed to. 2. This one came with assorted bantams, it's...

So I have 2 broodies in separate coops, 1 hen had 7 eggs starting out and the other had 6 eggs. One hens eggs stopped developing at different times so I removed them 1 by one and she's down to only 1 viable egg now. The other hens eggs have all continued developing normally. I set all the eggs...

We put eggs under a hen 2 weeks ago and I assume we missed an egg cause 1 hatched today. It looks fully grown with no defects so I assume there was a hidden egg. I found the chick away from the nest with the hen trying to push it under her and the chick has a wound on both sides of it's head so...

I've got 5 bantam chicks that are 5 weeks old now and they are the size of 2 week old chicks that are regular standard size breeds. I've never had bantams before so I don't know how small they normally are at this age to tell if they are growing fine. Do you guys have any pictures that show...

My 3 speckled sussex hens are about 1 and 1/2 years old and going through their first molt right now. Since getting their first mature feathers late last year they had very small white spots at the end of their feathers but were mostly mahogany colored. Now as new feathers are growing in they...

I noticed some type of growth on the bottom of my roosters toe and I was hoping someone could help me figure out what's causing it. It's pink all the way around, smooth and fleshy feeling, there is no bumbles on the bottom or wounds on the bottom, feels warm like the other foot but not hotter...

I got my first flock last year, all were 2-3 day old chicks from tractor supply. Their breeds are speckled sussex, blue laced gold wyandottes, blue laced red wyandottes, partridge rock, dark brahma, and blue orpington. The roosters were a speckled sussex and a blue laced red wyandotte. I got rid...

I noticed about 2 weeks ago my rooster had lost all his long tail feathers, it wasn't bald and no skin was visible but it was just sudden they were there one day and gone the next and now new ones are about 3-4 inches long. Now again yesterday he had all his neck feathers and today there's a...

This year we hatched out chicks and when the cockerels from that hatch reached maturity and started harassing the hens, my rooster Jake stopped dancing for his hens. From what I observed, he spent most of the time chasing the cockerels away and protecting his hens cause they were jerks and if...

We've had a very rainy summer and with that came lots of grasshoppers that my chickens have been feasting on when they get a hold of them. My question is if grasshoppers carry any types of parasites that could infect my flock? I've never had an issue with intestinal parasites before and when...