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I received a bunch of chicks today and in the mix were some bantams. One chick (I believe is a Mille Fluer duccle) seems to have a broken leg. It doesn’t like to our pressure in that leg and will hold it out. It doesn’t have curled toes and doesn’t appear to have splay leg. How can I splint it...

My hen has her second little clutch of chicks that she has raised and they are about 4 weeks old now. Yesterday I went to check on her and the chicks and I found that she has laid an egg. It seems pretty early to start laying again. Last time she didn’t lay for months after hatching and raising...

Last year I had just a couple pullets show signs of cocci. I immediately put them and my mature flock on Corid. I didn’t lose a single chicken. This year it got my flock hard. I lost five pullets/cockerels, even after treatment. I’m devastated! I have more chicks coming tomorrow and I’m...

Hey everyone, Does anyone know of a good hatchery that carries Lavender Marans? I recently lost one and I am devastated. The hatchery where I got her from is out of stock currently.

Currently treating my entires flock with Corid. I’ve lost three young birds, and another is dying. I don’t know what else to do.

I have a well-established flock of chickens and four runner ducks. Two are fully feathered and spend all day outside with the chickens. I started by having them outside of the the chicken run while the chickens stayed enclosed but now they are all free ranging together. Tonight the ducks walked...

I crossed a Silked EE rooster over white Leghorn hens and I got some cute babies. All have darker skin but some have even darker, which I assumed were female. There is only one that has only a slate green shank color. When I crossed this same rooster over other hens with yellow shanks I had...

I got two new runner ducklings on Sunday from a local breeder. Is her mouth okay? The corner where the bill meets the cheek looks a little crusty.

Looking for duck house/run ideas. Currently I’m rebuilding the coop for my chickens and I’ve decided not to keep my runner ducks with them. Does the duck house door have to be closed or can there be an opening for them to come and go as they please? Mine are currently in a brooder but are almost...

I’ve crossed my roo with a few different hens to get very sweet little sex-links. It’s been pretty consistent and reliable. I finally hatched some chicks crossed with my fibro roo over white leghorn hens. The result consfused me. The chicks are very sweet, white with black spots, but the...

I have a blue runner and a fawn/white runner (pictured). I was looking to add another couple so that their flock wouldn’t be so little. I found a breeder locally that has some mixed. Are there any sex-linking or auto-sexing traits in ducks like there are in chickens? The breeder says the Drake...

If my breeding pair of chickens are both homozygous for blue eggs, does that mean their offspring are as well? I had assumed my hen was because she lays blue eggs (but that’s not guaranteed, right?) and my rooster’s offspring have laid green eggs because their mothers are brown layers. I guess I...

I’ve been seeing growing popularity with zombie chickens. I was hoping to hatch some Leghorn x Silked EE chicks in hopes for prolific blue layers, but now I’m thinking they’d also be considered “zombie” chickens. Would it have to be Stan cemani x Leghorn for that particular breed?

I only have one chick who had pasty butt. I cleaned her up, got her mostly dry and put her back in the brooder. Her crop looked a little unusual but it seemed fine and now it’s back to normal. She’s still active but now stands with her eyes closed. Her vent is leaking white and is constantly wet...

I bathed this chick a couple of times for leaky butt but her rear never dries. It’s constantly wet and dirty even after I bathe and dry her. I have chick probiotics. Would this help? She walks around just as well as the others and is not picked on. None of the other chicks have this problem...

I had to bathe this one because it had pasty butt and another one had pooped on it too… but then as I was checking her crop seems large. I didn’t notice when she was dry so maybe being wet pronounces it more. What are your thoughts?

This is my second time ordering live chicks but this time seems like shipping is a lot slower. I’ve ordered from MPC and got 8 beautiful chicks and they arrived within 2 days of hatching. These ones shipped from Ohio and I’m all the way in Oregon. This time I ordered ducklings and they will...

Looking at my 3 week old silkie mix babies and I’m noticing a difference in tail plumage and shape. The first one is looking very rooster-like to me. The feathers are in an upside down V shape, while the second one has a very round, poofy look. I’ll try to update this as they mature so someone...

Hello, I’m getting a couple of runner ducklings in a few days. My feed stores don’t have anything specific to ducks, but the All Purpouse poultry feed seems to fit their dietary needs best. What kind and where does everyone find feed for ducklings?

I hatched two salmon faverolles. They are three weeks old. The first two pictures are of my suspected boy. He definitely looks like a cockerel and has red on his wattle and comb, the second doesn’t show red but the feathering looks dark, but almost lighter than the other in the wings. Second...