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Yesterday, we noticed our 2 year old brahma hen was sneezing quite a bit. We thought maybe she just had some dust in her lungs or something. But she is sneezing again today. I picked her up to check her over. Her breathing sounds raspy but other than that she seems fine. Her comb & face are...

I know it's really early, but wondered if anyone wants to take a guess at the gender of my Lavender Orp chicks. They are almost 3 weeks old, we are rehoming 3 of them this weekend so trying to decide which one to keep (hoping for a girl). Which would you keep? Right now we are telling them...

We are on year 2 of our chicken raising adventure. We started out with 5 girls - they had a 100 square foot secure run that is 6 feet tall - hardware cloth buried 18 inches down and on bottom 2 ft of run, and 1 in poultry wire on top 4 ft and "roof"of run. So totally safe. This year we ended...

so we have a broody hen sitting on some Lavender Orpington eggs we got off ebay. This is our first time hatching eggs, it's been fun! so they should be ready to hatch in about 4 days (this Friday) soooooo excited!!! She has 10 eggs - we have candled them a couple times, but being newbies we...

This little one is about 8 weeks old. We had 3 silver polish, when they were 2 weeks old we sold 2 of them. We kept this one because of the 3 "she" had the least tail feather development and was the most docile (this is our first polish so not sure what to look for!) But now "she" is looking...

4 Baby Chicks looking for a new home! hatched April 1st, all hatchery sexed female One Blue Silkie Two Silver Laced Polish One Easter Egger local pickup only - upper Cape area, MA $5 each

So excited! This was our first experience ordering chicks in the mail, and they all arrived just fine this afternoon :D we got 3 blue Silkies 3 Easter Eggers and 3 silver laced Polish one problem though - we only intended to keep 1 of each breed (I didn't want to only order 1 of...

I have 4 pullets that will be 26 weeks tomorrow and one that is about 22 weeks - two of the 26 week girls started laying about a month ago (barred rock & red star) but two still have not (buff orpington and light brahma). Is that usual for these breeds to be such late layers? Their faces are...

We got this chick about a week ago during a trip to the feed store for some feed The lady at the store said it was an Ameraucana but she seemed unsure. She said she was about 2 months old. There were at least a dozen others of the same coloring and size so I am assuming they were all from...

So we are 3 whole months into our chicken raising adventure. We got our 4 girls when they were a day old and things have been going great. Over the weekend we went to the feedstore to get some food. Of course we stopped to admire all the cute little chicks running around. This sweet little girl...

Do you have to put feed out in the run or are they smart enough to go inside the coop if they are hungry? We do have water inside and outside for them. They are 5 weeks old and they have just moved out to the coop and the feed doesn't seem to be going as fast as when they were in the brooder

New to raising chickens with so many questions! We have been thinking about getting some chicks for awhile, and I guess we thought too long. At this point, most suppliers can't get our chicks to us until the end of July. We live in the northeast so by the end of October/early November it's...