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So, I have noticed that 1 of my hens has here feathers gone on her back, and a couple more have some feathers that are going missing. I have deducted that it is my Buckeye Rooster (Tony) who is causing the issues. The rooster is 1 year old, and has almost always had a problem with overbreeding...

I currently have 1 Buckeye rooster, and 7 hens. They have been living peacefully except for the occasional scuffle. Near the end of August 2020 my Dutch Bantam went broody, so we put several eggs under her. She hatched out 3 of them which are Buckeye mixes, 2 are female, and 1 is a male. The...

I have a 46 gallon bowfront tank. The dimensions are 12" deep, 36" wide, and 21" tall. I am just wondering if it is possible to keep anoles and Emerald swifts in this size tank. If so, how many of each lizard? If not what size tank would I need to get?

This has never happened to me before, but I have a flock of 7 hens and 1 rooster unwilling to roost on the roosting bar. The actual structure is 31" tall and 4'x4'

I have 15 chickens, 1 cockerel and 14 pullets, all are Buckeyes. I just want to know the best ways to enrich them without putting them in harms way. I have a 17' by 50' run, that is completely barren, aside from sticks, poop, and a hastily thrown together "playground". I already have plans for...

I was wondering if it is a good idea to put sand under the roosts, so I can just sift out the poop.

I am really new to chickens genetics, and how to breed chickens to get what you want in them. All I have so far, is a goal of what I want. That goal is to "create" a chicken loosely based off of a Crested Cream Legbars. These chickens will: -Lay mint/pastel green eggs (med-large size) -Be a...

I have a desire to keep bantams standards together, so far I have 1 Blue Dutch Bantam and that is all. I used to have 4 other bantams with her, along 7 standard hens and 1 rooster, they were all fine. The rooster would occasionally try and mate with the bantams, but when he realized he could not...

I am looking for one bantam breed and one standard breed of chicken that I can make at least enough money to the point that the chickens can "self sustain" themselves. I have always had a mixed flock of chickens, but I have found it difficult to sell their chicks that I hatch. I will have to...

I have three mixed breed chicks. 2 are Sapphire Gem x Buckeye and 1 is Australorp x Buckeye Here is Joe my 99.99% Cockrel Here is Karen mu 99.99% pullet (the black one) Here is Sarah my 50-50 (the red one)

Is there a way to mass tag a group easily without individually tagging every single person?

I have 7 pullets and 1 cockerel. 4 pullets are 36 weeks old, the cockerel is also 36 weeks old, the other 3 pullets are about 18 weeks old. The cockerel has a favorite which is a 36 week old Australorp pullet. She is slowly loosing feathers at the base of her tail. I was wondering if I should...

I live in NM, and I have a small flock in a horse paddock that the previous owner had put there. I still live with my parents and although they support me with the chickens, they still want to go on trips, and we cannot to that because of the chickens. I currently have 1 cockerel, 7 pullets, 1...

I welcome everyone who has come to either enter this competition or watch this play out. You can have a maximum of 2 entries. You may enter any bird that you own, or previously owned. The winner will be decided in two ways. I will decide a top 3 judged by myself, and another top 3 will be...

I have a 36 week old pullet, I got her and another one from TSC as a Blue Jersey Giant, she is pretty giant and blue, so I thought she was a BJG. I hatched two of her eggs with a Buckeye father and the babies had a chipmunk pattern, which I was told would not come from a BJG. Any help would be...

I currently have 3 chicks, the oldest one is 7 days old and the youngest is 5 days old. I want to be able to know their sex relatively early. In my previous flock of 12 I tried to identify the chicks sex by looking at feather growth and I was 2/3 successful, but it took to long for me to tell...

I have a Dutch Bantam mother, she has 3 chicks, and they are in a barn in a brooder, there is a huge squirrel living in the same barn I am wondering if the squirrel will harm either the mother of the chicks.

I do not know if this is the right thread, but I have been hatching eggs from my mixed flock, and 2 have hatched, and one will be dry by tomorrow morning. I want to have an idea of what the adult color of my chicks will be. A note to keep in mind is that I had a Blue Jeresy Giant cockerel, and...

I have a Blue Jersey Giant pullet who has been iffy on if she is going to be a dedicated mother, but I would like to try. I have heard that Jersey Giants can break eggs, and I will be getting random eggs, so I cannot guarantee shell hardness. What can I do to help her not break the eggs and be a...

I have a Jersey Giant pullet who has gone broody as of today. I May want this, but I do not know yet, but if I do not want her to be broody what are some of the best ways that you people would recommend me to do in order to break her broodiness.