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I was thinking of getting at least one Silver Laced Polish to go in my new flock but was wondering if it was safe since they’re so skittish? The new flock so far has a Welsummer, a Dominicker, a Rhode Island Red, and an Easter Egger. I don’t want to get a Polish and have it be tortured by the...

I had a flock of seven chickens but today I looked outside and they were all dead. I found five of the bodies and was able to bury them but I’m missing two but I don’t know what would kill the entire flock and leave most of the bodies completely intact? We’ve had a hawk recently going between my...

Sometimes I play with my rooster by trying to get him to crow. I’ll try and make the sound and sometimes it’ll make him crow in response but other times he’ll shake his head back and forth. I call it his little dance but my dad says he’s probably telling me no he doesn’t want to crow. What’s the...

I’ve been struggling a bit with reintroducing one of my hens back into the flock. She was injured by a dog and the wound was made worse by her flock mates that we had to separate her from them but now they won’t allow her back into the flock. We put her in with them today and it seemed to be...

My chicken was attacked by a dog causing a wound on her eye which was then made worse by her flock mates pecking at it. It’s been a few months, it happened in August of last year if I remember correctly, and I just picked her up after her flock mates went after her and I saw an eye where there...

One of my chickens lost an eye to a dog attack followed by her flock mates pecking at it. I put her back in with the others after my mom cleaned out her eye, it was dead and causing an infection, and her eye seemed to be healed. I heard clucking at 1 am tonight so I raced outside worried...

I have a Dominicker rooster that has yet to crow. We bought him in April and it looks like he’s full grown, being that he is only slightly smaller than my older girls, but he hasn’t crowed at all yet? Is it still too early? He had the feathering of a male bird. I’ll attach a photo that was...

One of my chickens was recently attacked by a dog, dog got her head through her fence, which injured the area around her eye. We separated her from the other six but when I came out the next day she was in the main roost and the area around her eye was swollen up so I brought her inside to see...

There’s a small little gap behind my chicken coop and the fence surrounding them that I usually chase the chickens out of of they get stuck but my Welsummer was stuck back there, I think changed by my older hens, and she was laying on her side and when I pulled her out she couldn’t stand. I...

I have a Dominicker named Blueberry Michelle and recently I’ve noticed that her tail feathers have a curl or sickle shape to them. My mom says that some hens can have tail feathers like that and we hope she’s not a rooster cause we planned on only having chickens for eggs not breeding. If she is...

I’ve been trying to introduce my new teen hens (a Dominicker, RIR, and a Welsummer) to my existing adult hens (two black sex links, a red sex link, and an Australorp) but it’s been a bit harder than I expected. I knew there would be fighting but it surprised me how rough they get. I tried...

I’ve noticed that as my Welsummer chicken, Cinnamon aka Cinnie Minnie, has started to look like a Hawk. I just mean her pattern, colors, and even her beak has a black spot reminiscent of a hawk. Were they bred to mimic the appearance of hawks as a way to deter hawks or was this just random?

I recently got a Dominicker, what I’ve been taught to call Dominque chickens, as a replacement for a chick that died. The chick I originally bought was either a Barred Rock or Dominicker. Anyway, my dad raised Dominickers and Rhode Island Reds, so did my mom but she had more variety, and my dad...

I recently got three new baby chicks at Atwood’s and I don’t know what breeds they and I’m hoping they’re all pullets. I think they’re a Rhode Island Red, a Plymouth Rock, and an Easter Egger. I really hope that one is a Rhode Island Red because I specifically asked for one because they are my...

I’m planning on adding two new chicks to my flock of four adult hens and was wondering the best way to do it? I was going to put the chicks in a separate coop close to the adult coop to let them get used to each other. I’m expecting them to fight because the chicks are new and my older hens will...

I’m planning on getting two ducklings in a month or two and want them to get along with my four grown hens. Any tips for the introduction process and how to tell when they’ve gotten used to each other?

Are golden and red sex links the same breed of chicken? I thought I had a red sex link hen but she also matches the picture of a golden sex link hen?

I got all of my current chickens from Atwood’s so I don’t know the breeds, the ages, or the sex of any of them. The one looking at the camera is Midnight who we think is a Black Sex Link pullet This is Jackie and she looked identical to Midnight when we first got them so we assume she is also a...

I’m thinking about getting a guard goose for my chickens but I’m worried that it will attack my 11 yr old niece, 10 yr old niece, and 8 yr old nephew when they visit because it will think they’re intruders. The kids visit, usually, every other weekend but we sometimes get them when their mom...

The biggest one, Oreo, we think is an Austrolrop because her coloring is the same as those chicks. The ginger one, Talulah, is turning golden with reddish brown accents and one of the “twins”, identical ones, Jackie, is also growing reddish brown accents to her black and white feathers. The...