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I got two poults thursday morning from the feed store. Tossed them in the brooder with my chicks (various ages 1 day to 4 weeks). Thursday evening, one's dead. Friday morning, the other's dead. Feed store says they'll let me bring them back. Got two more friday evening. Now saturday evening...

Anyone have luck with mail order Bresse eggs? I'm thinking of a meat flock and wondering how they'll travel. I have an incubator from hatching my last few birds

I've got a rooster i need to separate because I don't have enough hens to support two roosters. I'll keep two of the hens with him but this is my chance for a meat flock. My normal coop is stationary with a fenced in run. This one would be mobile and I've thought about it a lot and settled on...

I took in a rooster rescue and it became my big alpha male (only had a silkie roo before) and lately i see more hens sleeping on the nesting boxes and the other night i put them back on the pole and he immedieately pecked the hell out of one (who also has her back feathers missing so she's being...

I went out to cut the hens nails today for the first time ever because i noticed one was limping. Didn't even know cutting nails was a thing. My 7 yr old buff is the one that caught my attention. this to me looks like dried poop but i couldn't remove it with the hose wetting it. never had...

just check on my chicks who are still kept away from the adults and i found one dead. No idea why. no shortage of food or water. Just so happns she was the one had a hard spot when they were newborns from the incubator (the belly closure? was enlarged and hard for about 3 weeks as their feathers...

Background: buff orpington and welsummer x 7 yrs old silkie rooster, americauna, black australorp, plymouth rock x 4 yrs old Silkie rooster + americauna hybrid (hatched in coop x 2 yr) Recently obtained rooster of something, don't know (previous thread on it) black with gold specks, maybe a...

I was given a chicken by a patient from my clinic. She was basically given this rooster from someone else who was raising chicks and didn't want a rooster. The foster mom tried finding a place and a rooster farm said they'd take him but fell through so she randomly asked and I said sure I have 9...

Today I found my lead hen dead in the nesting box. She was fine yesterday, no blood or anything but there was yellowish "vomit" on the nesting box material with her. I don't know what to think about this, very random. She's one of 4 that were hatched in the spring of 2016. Last year one of them...

I have one pullet and 9 hens. I couldn't stop one from brooding so i let her have one. She's now 12 weeks old and she and her mother are caged off in a corner of the coop with their own food and water. Space is getting smaller and I feel like it might be ok to incorporate her now. Traditionally...

A few weeks ago my Australorp went broody. I did the usual removal, then resorting to the wire cage, then after a week I said screw it. I marked two eggs with a sharpie so I knew which ones they were, gave them to her to nest on, and since have been removing other eggs, leaving her those two...

I took down my old "Little Giant" because they were finnicky and spilling food everywhere. I made one of those brute trash cans with the PVC elbows going in it. While I don't stand out there all day, I've never seen them eat from it. I even go in and take food, let them eat out of my hand, then...

One of our silkies has been hiding behind our food him in the coop. It's almost like she's broody bit not really bc she isn't irritable and I move her our and she'll hang out outside after. But today another one was sitting on her as she was sitting on an egg. What the hell?

I have the bucket and nipple system and have had for years. But now that they have a bigger coop and more chickens, I want a bigger system. I have a 30 gallon rain barrel I plan to put into a PVC pipe with nipples, fed by the rainwater off their coop roof. I was wondering about a few things: If...

Came home today to find one of our hens dead in the nesting box. My wife found her earlier in the day. She was one of our favorites so of course we were sad. I did an autopsy and didn't notice anything weird inside. No enlarged organs, stuck egg, normal looking internal organs other than some...

One of my 5 month old birds crowed this morning! This was a surprised as I expected all 6 to be hens. He/she is a silkie so they were straight run. I don't really want a rooster because I don't want him to harass the hens and mate with them. We're connected to this one more because it had pasty...

We've got 6 little chicks and I noticed today that the Americauna has a weird looking growth over her chest, just off to the right where her crop would be as an adult. They're only 2 weeks old this Friday. This weird growth I swear was on her back shoulder the other day. I was telling my wife...

I'm thinking of a couple kunekunes to raise in the back (different containment than chickens of course). I'm mainly curious about how much manure one would make. I would have to compost the manure somewhere on the property (we only have an acre) so if I got let's say 2 or 3 at first, what am I...

My current setup is a 8 x 8 coop with an attached 6x12 run. I want to expand the run since we're adding more chicks to the flock (going to get 6 new ones, will have 10 total). The costco canopy is 10x20 and comes with the tarp roof and roll-down sides (which I like for rainy weather). The...

I've noticed a drop off entirely for my 4 hens in the last two weeks. We have had increasing temps, but yesterday was the hottest day of the new year at 82. That's not hot enough to cause egg laying cessation is it? Their food and water is fine, no molting evidence, etc. I worm every fall just...