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Thanks, Eggcessive! Best pic I have been able to get of her eye today. You can also see that she is a bit scraggly looking. Her wing feathers are coming in oddly for some reason as well She doesn’t appear to be having issues getting enough food and water (I do offer her both when I take her...

I have a 4 week old Salmon Faverolle that arrived through the mail along with other mixed chicks looking and acting a bit "off." She would kind of lurch around and looked unbalanced and had an eye that appeared a bit puffy. I assumed she would improve and it was largely a result of the...

Sadly, I am now down to 1. Chick 2 could not hold water down, could no longer walk properly, etc. and had suffered too much damage to recover. The remaining chick still seems healthy, but I am very concerned about having the hatchery (which is in Iowa, a state dealing with serious health...

Thanks! It doesn't get TERRIBLY cold - I'm in Missouri (barring any additional "it's 2020, so crazy stuff is a thing!") but I am just used to my laying hens at least having the OPTION of kind of piling up on the roosts or all in one laying box inside their coop - not that they ever do this :)...

So my first batch of meat birds arrived a few hours ago and it did not go well....unfortunately all but 2 perished in transport. I wasn't thrilled with the packaging and shipping and am unlikely to purposely purchase from that vendor again. (I have had much better shipment on my laying chicks...