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C What is wrong with my friend's chickens?!?!!?! They are only a year old. I had him dust them and redust about a month ago with permethrin. But they still look awful. The flock he had before this looked that bad too, but he culled them all when he got these new ones last year. Could it be...

I will try to make a long story short. I have 25 chicks, and at 15 days one exhibited sickly-like behavior by not standing well, tipping over, feathers puffed out, and acting cold. It was all the typical signs for Marek's disease. I fed it polyvisol infant vitamins, and scrambled eggs (I had...

I recently acquired two chicks that I (with the help of BYC) have pretty much determined to be male sex-links. I understand that this is a cross between a Rhode Island Red rooster and a Barred Rock hen. I also understand that since this is a hybrid and not a true breed, the offsrping will not...

Currently I have 10 chicks, three Rhode Island Reds, 3 sex link, Three Easter egger, and one red production. I am going to buy two more today. My choices are white leg bar, welsummer, Rhode Island red, or black sexlink (my others are gold). My main goal in having chickens is eggs! But I am very...

In the above picture it's the one on the right. We went to the feed store and picked out four sex link chickens. Only the one chicken they said they weren't sure about, it had speckles on its wings. Not knowing anything about chickens, I took it anyway. But after taking it home and noticing...

I wanted to buy Americauna chicks from the feed store, but unfortunatley they didn't come in. However, they had gotten a shipment of duckling and these little chicks were shipped with them to help keep the ducklings warm. The feed store had no idea what they were or if they are hens or...