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Single Rouen Drake that lost all his girls to a predator. He's lonely and is looking for a new home. No other ducks are available - he is the last one. Must pick up near Kent/Covington WA. Location is about an hour south of Seattle. Thank you.

My chick is 8 days old and has not shown any interest in learning how to eat. I will give a quick summary of his life so far. He hatched last weekend and had a leg injury. His leg was splinted and he had to spend 4 days in a chick chair so his leg could heal. While he was in the chair he got...

Help! I've never had orpingtons before and I don't know what color to call these chicks. First two are light gray (blue on their chests is food coloring for marking purposes) The second two are black (or dark gray?) with white chests The one on the right is supposed to be from a mottled...

I'm told he came from McMurray hatchery. He is not quite full grown, so he may not have his full plumage yet. I was thinking he could be a wyandotte, but his leg color is dark and not a true yellow. Perhaps an Easter Egger, but he has no beard. Thanks in advance!

Recently when candling eggs I was selling for hatching, I noticed some of my crested cream legbar eggs had air bubbles in them. The bubbles move to the top of the egg as it is rotated. So far I found about four eggs that have these bubbles. The eggs are from my hens and have not been dropped...

Below is my 5 month old Turken cockerel/rooster. He is a huge boy (7 pounds already) and just started crowing and courting the ladies. He tends to go after the more submissive or younger pullets since they are easy targets and are not as likely to fight back. The problem is that he seems to...

My 9 month old Amber link hen started to walk in circles last weekend. She was still eating, drinking, free ranging, and laying eggs almost everyday. After doing some research, it seems like she has wry neck which may be caused by a vitamin deficiency. The recommended treatment (for silkies)...

My super-sweet rooster is very sick this morning and can't lift his head. He has been going to roost at night, but I have not been able to observe the chickens as much as I normally do since our power has been out and it is dark when I get home from work (with no lights). Over the weekend I...

I have a great flock with about 15 hens and one rooster that is 6 months old. He is gentle with the hens and has been fertilizing eggs. A few weeks ago I bought a small flock of cream legbars. The rooster is less than a year old, bit older than my other rooster. Both flocks are separated...

If you have a rumpless chicken, please feel free to share it here. It doesn't matter if it is a purebred, an Araucana, or a barnyard mix. Post photos of them all! Also post concerns, questions, health issues related to being rumpless, etc. I've looked all over the forum and have not been...

Two month old Faverolles x Welsummer cockerel. His sisters left for their new home and he's the only one left that needs a place to land. He's white and black with 5 toes on each foot and nicely feathered shanks. We call him Favio. He was raised by a broody and has been free ranging for the...

This is my 7 week old chick that hatched out of a green egg. To the best of my knowledge the mom was an Easter Egger and the dad is a Faverolles. Is it a cockerel or a pullet? This one really has me stumped. It developed a pink comb pretty early on, but the comb has not grown in size like...

I have a great red sex link hen. She is about 2 years old. In May she laid 29 eggs, which is nearly one everyday. This hen is great in every way. Two weeks ago she became egg bound. She was looking pretty sickly when I gave her calcium to help her along. She laid one broken egg and what...

Yesterday I rescued a pullet that has an old leg injury. The former owner told me she had a cut on it two months ago. She is 4 months old now. He said he wrapped it for a couple of days but was unable to keep it clean enough to heal because of lack of time. The pullet is very small and he...

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find an answer in old posts. We have 8 laying hens and 7 youngsters that are 10 weeks old. For the last 3 weeks the chicks have been free ranging but have been separated from the hens at night so they can eat starter crumbles and not get...

The inevitable happened this morning. My two 6-week old cockerels tried to do each other in. The obvious loser is missing some skin from his head and had bite marks on his comb. The bleeding has stopped, but I'm not sure if there is anything I should be doing with his head after it was...

A month ago I picked up two hens. They are my first chickens so I don't know how much they should weigh. The hens are 2 years old. They were living in a very small yard in the city before I got them When I pick them up, I can feel a prominent breast bone on both hens. Is this normal? I...

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This should be an easy one, I hope. I got this 2-3 year old hen and was told she might be a Rhode Island Red. However, she seems kind of light in color. Is she maybe a Red Sex link? Her tail feathers underneath are very light in color. She lays huge medium brown eggs that weight between 70...

Last night I picked up two older hens from a woman in Seattle. As we were loading them she looked in their coop and says, "Oh, there's an egg in here." She wasn't the best animal owner and you could tell didn't care about the chickens at all. In any event, the egg is not what I would...