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late this fall one of our Golden Buffs went broody and hatched 2 chicks by way of our Australorp roo. To my surprise their feathers have come in and they are white! I know golden buff roosters are white so does this mean they are roosters? Some what else related, we had a barred rock hatch and...

I have a batch of red rangers that are just 2 weeks old. 4 nights a go I woke up to find 4 dead chicks with 2 of them tore up cause the others were pecking / eating it. since then every morning I find 1 more dead and mulated. I don't believe they were sick as I don't notice any acting funny...

so last night I notice many of my 24 rangers 4-5 week olds had what looked like enlarged crops (looked like golf balls hanging off some!) so I of course freaked out and came to BYC and thought it was impacted crop. I noticed it mainly because I just moved them out of the brooder to the tractor...

I have a chick (out of 31) that is not moving and seems like it can't stand up and when I pick it up the feet automatically curl up instead of being all sprawled out. It is 2-3 weeks old, red ranger. I didn't notice anythign this morning before I left for work but found it when I got...

I have a chick (1 week old or less) that is noticable slower and not moving much at all so I gave a look over and seen there was some poop on its butt. Would that cause it to be acting lethargic? I cleaned it off, is there anything else I should/can do for it? When cleaning it off I noticed...

I am supposed to get red ranger meat chicks this Friday (was supposed to be last week but hatchery had to push me back a week). I just finally did the math for temperatures to start them at 95 degrees and then decreasing 5 degrees each week, to get them to approx 70 degrees would take 5 weeks...

I have read a couple different things about adding something to the water when getting new chicks: I am getting 25 red rangers and 6 layers on Friday and am trying to decide what to add to their water molasses or acv. I know the benefits of adding ACV, is the molasses added just to encourage...

I have a 2 yr old hen that is bleeding. 3 or 4 of the points on her comb look to be rubbed raw and one is has a fairly steady drip to it and also she has a poke on her breast that is bleeding. It doesn't seem to be actively bleeding. Today was their first day in a new coop. She is currently...

I have 11 golden buff hens (6 1yr olds , 5 2 yr olds). about 3 times a week one of my nesting boxes and other eggs in the box are super messy and once in a while a small piece of shell stuck on one of the other eggs in the box. So I am assuming an egg was broken in there. What would you guess...

So I recently started making my own feed from a mixture of whole grains and field peas were one of the grains that I bought a 50# bag of. The recipe called for them whole so the first batch I made I mixed them in whole. The girls were not impressed.. at all...they left them in the feed pan and...

so I decided to sprout some field peas because they weren't eating them otherwise, this is going on the 3rd day and they have sprouted but they have also started drawing gnats. did I do something wrong? I soaked overnight so for about 10 hours and then have rinsed about every 1/2 day...