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I know it’s early, but just for fun- this is my EE from Mt Healthy. I only got 2 EE and can only keep one, but I’m hoping to keep this one because I love her poofy cheeks. Last year I had an EE that started getting red shoulders at 3 weeks, but I heard black and white EE get white splotches...

Noir Marans is a Mt healthy hybrid from a cuckoo marans hen and black copper marans rooster. It creates an auto sexing chick. Anyway, my 2 week chick is having some barring coming in on her shoulders. Her wings are fully black with white wing tips. I can’t imagine she’s a cockeral, right?

I got 4 new chicks in the mail from Mt Healthy today. 2 EE and 2 Noir Marans. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to tell the Marans apart, but one is so much more solid black than the other. It has some light on its belly, but its beak and feet are very black, unlike the other one. I haven’t seen...

My 9 month old lavender Orpington has had diarrhea for a few days. She seemed much better after I gave her some electrolytes yesterday and came out of the coop with the other hens this morning. But then this afternoon I checked on her and her butt was all poopy. I washed it off, and her vent...

Wondering about my red Orp, pullet or cockerel? She’s just gotten so big! Wondering if she’s just more English Orpington than my buff? Also this EE. Her tail feather looks a bit shiny. 12 weeks

I’m particularly concerned with the buff Orpington in the front. Their brother is a boy, so I’m super paranoid. Am I in the clear?

My black, white, brown Easter egger has had the color and shape of her comb change this week. It’s pinker and I think it looks like a modified pea comb now? Or still straight comb? I hope she’s still a pullet! My two Easter eggers lead the pack and they came just terrified of everything. I...

As the title says, I live in western Washington, where it rains most of the winter. My run is basically my side yard, it’s long and narrow. Much bigger than it needs to be based on number of chickens I have. Since it has a wood fence on one side and house on the other, I don’t want to put solid...

The first 3 are of the hopeful 4 week 2 day old Easter egger we can keep. Third pic is her body in profile at the bottom of the image. The last is a picture of the one I’m now pretty sure is a cockerel for comparison, tell me if I’m wrong! Also, can you tell if the first one is going to have...

I already have one suspected cockerel in my 4 week old sexed pullets (see EE in background). I feel like my 4 week old lavender Orpington’s comb is awfully big, but it could just be because the color doesn’t blend in with her beak as much as the Buff’s does. Is this amount of comb normal for 4...

I think I have at least one cockerel in my batch of sexed pullets. I’m bummed because the hassle of rehoming is going to be hard. But I think my reddish one with blue tail feathers is having “her” comb that was already a bit wide get more pinkish. Would you still have hope? Her sister is the...

Right now, the battery powered American flag run chicken door is only $152, free shipping with coupon code 4July10 I just ordered one, hopefully it works well!

My chicks are a bit over 3 weeks old, one is getting a wider comb than her sister and is having red patches show up on her shoulders, but she also has salmon colored chest feathers and some wing feathers are gray. With the splotchy pattern, is this chick most likely a cockerel or do some pullets...

Hello! I have a cheap feeder in the brooder, the kind where you screw in a mason jar. They waste so much food! Is there an intermediate feeder where they won’t waste so much? Or do I just suck it up 2-3 more weeks until they can be outside more? Gotta get the run finished! Thanks!

I guess the title says it all. So many choices! Americaunas, Crème legbars, prarie blue bells, Easter Eggers. I’d be fine with green eggs, too. I’m looking for pet like chickens that lay colored eggs, but I want them to be sweet and fairly productive egg layers- don’t have to be superstars...

I’m wondering if these are pea combs? My two baby Easter eggers that I’m hoping are pullets. I read that if they inherited pea combs, they have a better chance of laying blue or green. I hope it’s true! Can you also tell if they have muffs or beards? It’s my first time and I just see fluffy...

Hello, My husband is currently building our chicken coop for 5-6 hens. We’re struggling with ventilation a bit. How far over the roost bar is high enough to put ventilation to not chill the chickens at night? He was really trying to not get the coop to stick too far over the 6 foot fence, but...

Hello! I’m starting my first backyard flock! We live on a fairly small lot in a suburban area. Our city just changed the ordinance from max 3 hens to 1 per 1000 square feet of lot space, so I can have up to 6. I originally ordered 1 red Orpington, 1 buff Orpington, and 1 lavender Orpington...