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TSC got me. I don’t have much experience, period, certainly not with bantams. I think I’ve id’ed most of their breeds but can’t figure out a few. The red and black one, the yellow and that black and white turd. The last has been soooo slow to feather in!! They are all around 5 weeks now.

I just cracked open the first of our eggs today. The girls started laying last week. I am only confused as we have 4 supposed pullets together. No one crows, looks like a rooster or does rooster-y things to the others that I've seen. So maybe it isn't fertilized and I'm just imaging things.

I would like to add 2-4 pullets to my flock. I have a chain link 10x10 kennel set up as a run but would need to use this as a coop. We have racoons, coyotes and opossums on/around out property. The main coop is close to the house and has not yet had any predator attempts but with this one...

This silkie is 5 days old and I just noticed her wing looked like this today. Is there something I can do for it? She seems to be eating and drinking and running around the brooder with the other two but if there's a way to "fix" it or if it's a bigger issue than I realize, I'd like to try and...

I have 4 hens, 8-10 weeks old. There are 2 Barred Rock, 1 Red Sexlink and 1 red production, I believe. A few weeks after we got them, I finally found some silkie chicks near me and got three. One didn't make it so now we have just the 2, 4 weeks old so no idea of sex yet. My question: I...

They were both from the same bin at TSC on 4/28. They were labeled just hatched red sex link pullets. I trusted the store too much (I know better now lol) but these chicks look so different from each other. I can't tell if it's due to being different genders or if they're different breeds...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes! Um... April 28th. Haha! That's how new I am, I noted it in my calendar. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Four chicks, 4-5ish weeks from TSC. (3) What breeds do you have? 2 Plymouth Barred Rocks...