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We bought from a friend these hens as chicks. They certainly turned out to be roosters, but does anyone know what breed they may be? Thanks for your input.

I believe this chicken came from the bantam bin from Atwoods or Tractor Supply. I think it's a hen, but let me know if you think otherwise. Shes probably 4-6 months old. She could possibly have hatched from one of our barnyard mixes, but we don't have anything that looks like her. Thanks for any...

I'm trying to make a post to help me identify a breed, but when I try to upload a photo, I can't select them; they are grayish or not highlighted. I tried closing the browser and reopening, turn off phone and back on, cleared cache on browser, cleaned up space on phone. I'm using an android...

I hatched 20 perfectly healthy baby chicks aside from one with curled toes which appears to be improving without intervention and one with spraddle leg which I have taped with vet wrap and is doing better. One didn't make it out of shell well and died while still in the incubator but it's not...

First time broody hen is hatching out a clutch of eggs on the floor of a nesting coop. No chickens roost in there but the other hens still go in to lay in the nesting boxes on the other side of the coop. There is a piece of wood at the foot of the entrance to prevent the little chicks from...

We have a black americauna rooster who was supposed to be a hen. We have an assortment of hens to include mottled orpinton, gray frizzle (no clue what the actual breed is), leghorn, olive egger, cochin bantam, turken, gold laced cochin/wyandotte crosses, mille fleur barbu d'uccle, black marans...

We bought a model 1270 GQF hatcher secondhand. I'm wondering if we have the vents set ideally. We are getting a decent hatch rate but not quite 80%. Last hatch we had three fully zip but not hatch and die. This time it was 3 on the bottom. It happened to some last time and at least one was on...

I treated chickens with tylan for labored breathing and swollen sinuses. It seemed to be improving. I planned to give follow up dose in about a week. A few of our new birds who also received the tylan started wheezing audibly and sneezing. I'm afraid the tylan is not treating the illness and I...

We received a flock of bantams from a guy who was downsizing (mostly reducing breeds). He said the feather legged hens lay green eggs, and we have indeed gathered some blue/green tinted bantam eggs although I can't confirm which hen(s). This roo has feathered legs, waddles, and a single comb.

Hi, I'm using a new incubator. We had 28 healthy hatches out of 46 viable eggs (identified from candling). One died when it broke out of the shell, it appears. It happened overnight so I didn't see it. I discovered the deceased chick in the morning. It zipped out fine though so I'm wondering if...

I have a little chick I hatched yesterday in our incubator. We bought the eggs at an auction with no indication of what they were. I have one that looks like a macaroni penguin or an old man with bushy, gray eyebrows. Any ideas of what it could be?

I have a 7momth old easter egger rooster who was limping a few weeks ago. We treated him by rubbing oil on his legs for scaly leg mites which we didn't see but thought it could be the problem and he was isolated to limit movement. He seemed to improve dramatically after a few days. We let him...

I put 73 eggs in the incubator and am on day 24 and have 12 chicks hatched. Some of the eggs are bantam so I put them in lockdown on day 16. I candled the eggs too and 47 of the eggs looked promising - mostly dark except for the air cell. But only 12 pipped and hatched. This is the 3rd round...

I started with 11 chicks who appeared very sick when we got them. I made a post about the 2 worst ones which sadly passed. One passed an hour after getting them home and one the next day. Then another 2 days later and at this point, I have 6 left. I've had them for 2 weeks. I immediately started...

Hi, has anyone used dog houses to create chicken coops? I'm attaching pictures of the available dog houses. We currently have an easter egger rooster with a leg injury isolated in a wire dog crate. He is in a fenced backyard with a separate coop for the rest of the flock. His crate was two dog...

I just brought home 11 two-week old chicks (they are separate from my flock). One of them is making a sound I thought was a sneeze but it is not high-pitched like I hear on youtube videos described as a chicken sneeze so maybe it is a cough. It sounds almost like a slurp. This chick also seems...

Hi, I had a one day old chick pass today. This is our second incubator hatch but the first time we only hatched one chick so no issues. This time we had 14 and counting hatch. They all seemed happy and healthy, but I looked into the brooder and a chick was sleeping on its back. She was breathing...

We just hatched a chick from an incubator with a leg/foot that curls in and under. She wont straighten it, but I can hold her and straighten it for her. She doesnt squeak louder when I straighten it. She cant stand or walk. It appears there is some superficial damage to her hock from the plastic...

I have 4 large chickens 8-9 months old, brahma or wyandotte or mixed, 2 roosters, 1 hen, 1 questionable (hen head and hen tail with hackle feathers) who do not roost in a coop. There are 2 coops available to them but they prefer to roost outside on buckets. They originally roosted on an old sink...

Hi, I'm new to chicken herding. We have about 25 chickens since March of this year, 2022. We learn something new EVERY day. It will be our first winter with chickens so we are trying to prepare accordingly. Our 6yearold son showed a hen and a rooster at a couple county fairs and really enjoyed...