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Hi there! This was a sexed pullet from Meyer Hatchery, hatch date January 23, so about 10 weeks old. What do you think? Cockerel or pullet? (And I apologize, not amazing pictures I know.)

Hi all. I appreciate this group and how helpful everyone is. I love my flock, and without this community I would be at a loss when one of my birds is sick. I have a two year old easter egger named Madonna. She lays normally, but flock is just starting to come back online after fall molt and...

Hi there! I have chicks that are showing some signs of cocci and so I am planning to treat them. (Two weeks old, one is a little hunched up, drowsy, lethargic, yellow/mucusy poop.). That said, I pulled my corid and it expired January 2022. My local feed supply is out and so I am looking to...

Hi there. I have a week old chick I purchased from a reputable hatchery (along with 16 friends). For the first time my chicks didn’t fare well in shipping and I lost three in the first 72 hours. Last night this chick seemed lower energy (see video: ) and this afternoon/evening she is gaping and...

Hi all! I have 19 new pullets, hatched late January to midFebruary. It has been a super busy Spring, with some work travel, and then one day I looked outside and thought, “omg, how did you two get so big?!” and then a few days ago…”how did I miss it…y’all are dudes” 😂😂😂. So tell me, pullets or...

Hi! I have a mature flock of 16 hens, no roosters. I also have a segregated flock of 19 pullets, age ~10-8 weeks. The pullets are segregated in a separate Coop and run until they are big enough to free range with the bigger girls. They can all see each other, but not touch. Again, no roosters...

Hi all. I live in Phoenix, AZ, metro area, on a large irrigated, grassy, treed lot (.8 acre). Our chickens free range most of the time, and of course over time are digging up our yard. We’d like to incentivize their digging in particular areas, esp the chicken run, where there is already little...

Good morning! I have a flock of 16 chickens, ages 21-26 weeks. As of right now I think I have 7 layers (i am getting 5-7 eggs a day). My coop is 8x8 and the girls free range all day in my grassy, treed yard. We have six nesting boxes and four of them are getting used. There are definitely...

We have 16 pullets and one cockerel. They are between 4.5-3 months old. We only bought sexed pullets, but our one roo is an accidental rooster. Our birds free range on half an acre in a suburban area. We have lots of mature tree cover, an 8’x8’ coop with attached 12’x24’ run (we open the door to...

I have four very similar looking sexed pullets, about 9 weeks old. This one behaves differently that the others, though, with behaviors more like our only other roo. S/He acts as a lookout for our younger flock, is much more assertive and confident, happy to wander off alone. Is this sweetheart...

Hello! We have chicks (we had a mature flock, but all have passed), and this is my first experience raising chicks and integrating flocks. In part because we didn’t know what we didn’t know, we ended up with a 3-5 week age difference between our two groupings, then due to space constraints, we...

Hey folks, I’ve got a sick chicken here and hoping for suggestions. She is my only adult bird left from a flock of four (the last one died over a year ago). She free ranges during the day in our jr acre treed, grass yard. She is and easter egger between 6-7 years old, and was a part of a rehomed...

Our sweet, social, and friendly pullet, Marilyn, is very lethargic. I notcied a difference in her behavior yesterday, and she is much worse today (flopping herself into a pile on the ground). Her poop is watery and white with a little yellow. This afternoon I hand fed her some scrambled eggs...

Hi there! I have 6-7 year old Easter Egger who just started laying again in the past few weeks. She has always been a reliable layer, although she tends to take a fall break (go figure...). In any event, she laid this today. It looks a little goopy because it cracked at the neck. I am assuming...

I ha w three 6-7 week old barred rock chicks, and this one is getting red under her(?) chin, has a more pronounced comb and a few other differences. Think she is a she?

Hi all! We are building an “interim” brooder/coop and run for our 5-7 week old chicks. They are currently in a 5’x2’ livestock feeding trough on the porch (so acclimating to outside), but they will soon outgrow their current digs. We live on .8 acre in the Phoenix, AZ area on a treed, grassy...

Hi there. I have nine chicks who are 4.5-6.5 weeks old. Everyone seems healthy and happy. I was told the chicks had been oreventatively treated for coccidiosis. One of the chicks had a bloody stool (see pic) and another has watery stool (both were yesterday morning...no other meaningful sign...

I recently got black australorp chicks, but this one looks quite different from my others. Is she a black australorp? If not, what os she??? Thank you! (Her name is Merilyn, joining several other musician birds, last name Manson 😂)

I have a gold star that I bought from a feed store about five days ago. She was delivered to the feedstore 12/30 and is just barely starting to sprout her tail feathers. Her respiration looks a little strained (short of breath), and she’ll stand, and rhythmically, every few seconds, tilt her...

I have questions regarding integration...and sorry this is long. Let me start by sharing that I have one beautiful, older easter egger (Mascara). She was part of a flock of four and has been with me for four years. She was with her prior owner for at least a couple of years before that. She...