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I had a less than 1 year old pullet pass away ago 4 days ago. She was on a nest, so I assumed it was a laying issue. This morning I found a 6-7 year old dead hen in the coop on the floor. She was of normal weight, and had no visible external parasites. I have 39 total chickens now and 13 ducks...

This guy is 8-9 months old. He's always had some wing/feathering issues. At this point, does this look like a permanent defect?

I finally got my APA SOP (YAY!). I am trying to pick which of my 3 salmon faverolles roosters to put in my breeding pen. What color is "straw"? It's not defined in the definitions section and the colored pictures in the book show it as almost white.

I have a request in to the library to get me a copy of the SOP from other regional libraries, but in the mean time, I really need to pull two of these roosters in a separate pen. I am hoping that I wont have to switch roosters again, so which of these roosters is the "best" to keep with my...

Does anyone know if I can just get a breed description for a single breed without buying the whole book?

I am at my wits end. I have 9 roosters/cockerels and 5 or 6 of them have been crowing in the middle of the night, often. The ones that are crowing don't sleep in the coop, they are under the coop, I went out last night to try to catch them and lock them in, but they were too far back and I didnt...

I have a 6 month old salmon faverolle who had been laying for only a month. She has been glued to the nest for the past 3 days. No eggs are under her. She pancakes, puffs, and growls when I poke under her. When I take her off the nest, she fluffs the bedding in the coop around her. I kick her...

I noticed one of my 4.5 month old pullets has what seems to be a dislocated/swollen foot. There does not seem to be any external injuries, with the exception of a missing scale or two on the top of her foot/ankle. I cleaned her feet off after the photo and confirmed no underlying bumblefoot. She...

I am 3 generations into my brahmacana roooster project. I wanted a pretty bird that doesn't crow often, doesn't crow at 4:30 in the morning, isn't forceful with the ladies, is not aggressive toward us, carries a green egg gene, has a rose comb, feathered feet, muffs, and a beard. Enter this guy:

I butchered 2 - 1.5 year old welsummer roosters today. I am glad I didn't go for all 6 intended targets today. It took me 1.75 hours from start to end of cleanup to do just the two. Hopefully I'll get to the rest tomorrow or Sunday. I skinned the two today instead of scalding/plucking as...

One of salmon faverolles pullets decided to pose for me the other day. She hatched on 3/26, so she is definitely not full grown yet, but I like how she is feathering is so far. She seems "necky" to me, but maybe that's the shorter legged genetics coming in to play?

Help!! I am brooding my chicks in my coop. They are 5 weeks old, not on medicated feed. Found one dead this morning, the chicks have blood on them and I realized that atleast a couple of them out of the 20 had reddish/bloody poo. They were completely fine at last close inspection about 3 days...

I have 3 beautiful salmon faverolles pullets (3.5 months) that seem nearly perfect in every way except their toes. One has 5 perfect separate toes on each foot, but her beard has a couple of black feathers. Another pullet has 5 toes on one foot, but only 4 on the other. The third has 5 toes, but...

I am going to be in the process of getting NPIP certified in the next few months and need to leg band birds in my flock. I know which birds are which currently, but I know I will need an actual system for bird ID on paper. Any recommendations?

I have the permethrin spray (martins 13.3% and I have it diluted to .5oz per gallon per the instructions). Is it enough to spray the bird anywhere, or do I have to get it on the abdomen. I have 3 roosters that I cannot catch and a couple of hens as well. I managed to get close enough to spray...

These two are same chick #1 : pullet? Comb is small and pale, but white patches/coloration is throwing me off Chick #2: all white, large but still pale pea comb. Pullet? Chick #3:all white, pinker, but smaller pea comb. For 6.5 weeks old, seems to be pullet? Chick #4, straight comb, red at...

I was going through photos of my chicks that I took the other day, and realized this one in the corner was giving me the evil eye. 🤣 I hope it's a pullet, but a look like that screams cockerel.

I hatched out 5 olive eggers in which the parents are siblings descended from a brahma/easter egger hen crossed with a welsummer roo. (Those chicks had sex-linked coloration at hatch - males with yellow bellies and females with brown.). The hen has welsummer coloration and the potential...

A few months ago, I had noticed feather lice, so cleaned out the coop, sprinkled permethrin and DE everywhere inside the coop and treated my birds individually with poultry and garden dust (active ingredient permethrin) every week to 10 days for 4 cycles. I have DE in their dust bath areas as...

These two in the foreground are two of my salmon faverolles chicks. They are 2.5 weeks old. I am pretty sure the one on the left is female, and I have two more that are feathering in just like her. The one on the right has me questioning. I thought it was a male, as it is darker as it was the...