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sorry for posting early before I finished writing!! Dumb moment. 1.) I found my Americana hen dead this morning and I’m trying to find out cause of death. She was a 3 year old hen who had stopped laying, I think because we are having a extreme heat wave. Yesterday her behavior wasn’t out of the...

I posted last year when my peachick, Rashki, was younger, and I got mixed responses if I remember correctly one or two people said it was a Indian blue male and the other people said it looked like a Spaulding peahen. Just wondering what the verdict is now that he/she is a bit older! Because I...

This is my first peacock, I was wondering what gender he/she looks like to you guys? I was thinking male as he started displaying young, but I've read peahens display too so I'm not certain. He/She is exactly 51 days old today. I can take pictures of different angles/pictures if that is more...

Yeah I don't even know at this point. I posted about this previously, my friend has some very nice chickens and she let me burrow a few eggs to put under my broody buff orpington hen. I grabbed some eggs out of her very tiny, very small little nesting box. I have literally no idea how their...

How this all happened - my friend breeds some very nice chickens and I asked if I could have a few eggs to hatch out under my broody buff orpington (because I do not have a rooster). She said sure, just grab some from the nesting box. So, I went into the nesting box and couldn't find any eggs...

My hen went broody 2 days ago and she is still on the nest, but I won't be able to get a hold of the fertile eggs I want until tomorrow. Will it be too late by then? This is my first time doing this.

I'm moving to a new house in a few months and I'm thinking of adding a rooster to keep the girls safe until I can get a covered run set up. But I have quite a few very nice, show quality hens and would prefer if the rooster didn't claw out all of their feathers from their backs. Apart from...

Here is the chick in question.

Less than 30 minutes ago I went out to my coop to let the chickens out, and one of my hens was laying face down by the door. I think she may have died very recently, maybe only an hour before I opened the coop, but I'm not sure. She showed no signs of being sick or acting ill the day before, and...

I'm the same person who posted about losing a pullet several days ago to an unknown predator. Well today, I think I found the predator. I went out to check on the hens and there was a huge black cat sitting on top of my chicken coop, looking in at my chickens through the window. I scared it off...

After losing a chicken to a predator, I've been considering getting a rooster for extra protection for my hens, and I'm curious if those no-crow rooster collars actually work or not. Roosters are technically legal where I live - but only if they are quiet. I was also wondering if there are any...

Yesterday, I lost a young, seven week old Pullet to an unknown predator. I was letting the chicks out in the middle of the day so they could get some fresh air, and 30 minutes later, I went out to check on them again and there was one chick missing. All the others looked frightened, and were...

Here are some pictures of the chick. Does it look like a rooster or a pullet? It has a bigger comb than the other chicks I bought so I'm a bit worried it might be a rooster. Any help would be very appreciated .

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) This is about a cochin chick, about three or four weeks old. This chick is MUCH lighter and thinner than the other chicks it's age. It's a big difference. This chick looks less than 1/2 the...