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My hen hatched out 5 chicks a bit over a month ago. They have all seemed fine until yesterday. We lost one and another werent looking so great last night. I just went to check on them and thought one was dead so I got somthing to put her in but I came back and she had moved a little and was...

I have 6 new chicks that I bought at a chickenstock this past weekend. My mom was looking at them this evening and noticed something that probably wouldn't have ever caught my eye. They all have big squishy lumps on their chests. My mom noticed it while I was at work, and was afraid it was an...

Last night I lost my 8 chicks and the 2 mother silkies raising them out of a completely enclosed run. It's got solid plywood walls, but there is fencing on the top, and wire on the whole bottom covered with dirt. It looks like something dug under, and somehow got through the wire (which is maybe...

Possible dads: Buff bantam cochin or a Columbian Wyandotte mix Possible moms: Buff Bantam cochin, mille fluer bantam cochin, grey silkie(or blue? I don't know the whole coloring thing), White silkie, black sumatra I haven't seen the standard roo try to breed any of the bantams, but they are all...

I have lost 2 chicks this week, and I'm trying to keep one warm right now in my shirt who I dont think is going to make it. They are in with 3 standard mixes the same age, and 2 silkies and a sumatra a month or 2 older. I have a heat lamp in the coop, and I figured it wasnt cutting it so I...

I came home to a skunk in the coop last night, and in my effort to get it out it sprayed inside the coop. I know there isnt much I can do to get the smell out of the chickens, but what about the floor?

My mom came across a free "chicken tractor" in the classifieds. It's really just a big run. Yesterday on the way home I saw a cute little coop for sale for 50 dollars, and thought "Hey, my bantams would look cute in that." Then I checked my wallet, and for the first time in a long time, I...

It's day 22(soon to be 23. I saw a pip when the mother got off to get a drink, but when she got back on she stepped on the egg! She crushed a side of it, but there is no blood. She is sitting on it now, do you think it'll be fine? I also picked up another one to see hat it appeared crushed on...

I've got "Fergie" the turken on 15 eggs. I candled for the first time yesterday. There are 8 I can definetly tell there is good developement(6 bantam, 2 standard) and 7 where I couldnt tell since I havent done a whole lot of candling(5 standard, 2 bantam)

A couple weeks ago at a chickenstock I bought 5 chicks. 2 of them were sebrights. I brought them home and put them in all together with silkie momma. She happily adopted them and all was well. Earlier this week, some of the wire in the coop had come up, and the babies got out. I wasnt home so my...

I got a brown leghorn on Saturday at the Oxford chickenstock, and I brought her home and put her in a 6x8 encloser with a relitivly calm RIR. I realize that leghorns are not really the kind of chickens that will come running to see you or love being petted, but it's a little rediculous when I...

Anybody have any chicks hatching in the next couple weeks that they want to trade for some laying hens hatched 4/21/08? I have a black sex link hen, a cochin(I think) hen of some sort, a columbian wyandotte hen, and columbian wyandotte roo, a naked neck hen. I also have a young NN/Columbian...

I didn't even know that my broodies got a hold of eggs, I thought they were just being stubborn and not giving up on an empty nest, and I noticed eggs and candled them. They are at least a week in!

I have two hens that are broody and they insist on using the same nesting box, sharing a clutch of eggs. If I were to let them hatch them together, is there a risk of them fighting over the chicks when they hatch?

I've got 7 hens but they all are laying eggs in the woods or something, because I'm not getting any. Nobody is sitting, because I see them all out and about during the day. I have provided various different boxes for them to lay in, and they used to all lay in the coop, but now they are on...

I think s/he is what....3 weeks, a month old?

Alright, im going to try to explain what my coop and run will look like when they are done. I have an 8x8 shed that we turned into a coop. It is white with blue(chipping) paint. Attached is a run. Or at leas I call it a run, it is an 8x16 extention that has a dirt floor and has walls 3/4 of the...

I have a columbian wyandotte roo that was hatched April 21st, 2008. This guy was really sweet but simply does not like my dad, and ever since I chased him off from my dad, he has been bitter towards me. Not sure if he would regain his friendly disposition if he had a new home, but I don't think...

I walked into my coop a couple hours ago and heard chirping! My hen hatched out her first chick! She has been sitting for a long time so I figured the eggs were not fertile, so I was gonna get rid of them this week. Now I'm stumped as to what to do. I moved the bantams to the back part of the...

Such as raising meat birds and selling them processed, selling eggs, or breeding?