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My 6 chickens are approaching 3 months old and are outgrowing the brooder. The coop will be finished this week and I'm eager to put them in there, but is there a specific way to do it? I don't have other chickens, so no one to teach them, and they've been spending the day in the run for the past...

Hello Chicken Hive Mind😀 First off, I'm a new chicken mom. I've got 5 week old chicks and my daughter has been having a reaction to the pine shavings in the brooder. I know pellets are basically crushed pine, but I'm curious if the difference in how it's processed will help my daughter. After...

Out of a batch of 17 chicks, 2 are cockerels. One is a speckled sussex and the other is an australorp. there's a 2 1/2 week age difference between them. The speckled sussex is an absolute A-hole. The Australorp is so gentle with me and the other pullets... for now. I've read that most austalorps...

I've currently got 2, 46 inch, round plastic pools set up as brooders. I also have a critter nation cage being used for a "quarantine" brooder as one of the younger chicks has wry neck that I'm treating. The ages of the chicks range from 2 weeks old to, I'm guessing, almost 5 weeks old. The two...

I've got a 3 week old buckeye chick who walks like a diva on the runway. I'm thinking this isn't a good thing for chicken's though. First, is this normal? If not, do I need to do something to help? Second, this little one had pasty butt when she came to me, and one of the other buckeyes has a...

Hello chicken hive mind ☺️ I recently became the mamma to 16 baby chicks. There are black sex link, speckled sussex buckeye and Australorp babies. We've discovered that one of the Sussex is a cockerel and I think one of the Australorps is a strong possibility for a cockerel as well. We had one...