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I have a serious dilemma. Here’s the backstory 😂 I currently have 12 chickens in a coop and run with plenty of room for more. I am adopting 2 ducks from a friend, but temporarily watching all 5 for her (one is a drake). We are planning on moving end of April early May. I am taking the ducks...

Hi! I am looking to integrate ducks with my chickens but not sure the best way to go about it (or if this is the right thread?). I have a large coop and large run and I wasn’t sure if the ducks needed their own coop or if they could all share? I do have a kiddie pool for the ducks in the summer.

Hi! I’m looking for some white eggs for my flock and I thought it’d be fun to add some silkies. I am also open to ducks….. I would just need to make adjustments for the ducks (silkies not so much). Thanks!

Does anyone recognize this breed?! They both have Afros and they’re so cute and I love them. I can’t remember what breeds I picked out lol

I am currently dealing with rats in my coop, we have cats to mitigate the issue, but I want to start integrating my baby chicks into the coop. The chicks are in a rat proof brooder in my shed, but I want to move them into the coop and I don’t know if I need to try and fit the brooder into the...

Hello! I have 7 chicks that I will need to integrate into my current flock of 6. I know I need to do the whole see don’t touch deal but I truly cannot think of a way to do that. How could I contain 7 hens among another 6? I have dog crates but they aren’t going to be big enough…. The chicks were...

Ok I just don’t know what to do. I’ve never hatched before and I’ve never dealt with a broody and babies. I ordered fertilized eggs, they were shipped to me and none hatched. I went and got day old chicks and put them under her. She went absolutely ballistic. I did it during the the day but...

I put the baby chicks, one day old, under the broody and the second she saw them she pecked like crazy. I would put them under her from the back, one by one and she would scoot around anytime she heard them chirping and then again if one showed itself she pecked like a psychopath after it...

I had another post talking about how I had shipped fertile eggs underneath my broody and all 8 failed. Ultimately we decided the best bet here was to get day old chicks and make the swap. Now here’s my question… Everyone was saying to make the switch at night BUT I am worried that I can’t keep...

Hi there! I am in Colorado and I bought eggs for my broody hen but I bought them from Washington and I’m worried that they’re not going to hatch because of the altitude change. I’m on day 22 under a broody hen, and still no chicks… Does anyone in Colorado near the Littleton area sell fertilized...

Ugh I am stressing myself out over here! I put my eggs under my broody April 29th around 2:00pm. If that was day 1, today is day 21. If that was day 0, tomorrow is day 21. I have heard zero peeping and there’s zero pipping. She’s very dedicated and only leaves the nest once a day to poop and...

I am so excited, I did it and I ordered my broody hen some fertilized eggs. She chooses to brood in a corner of the coop, no nesting box. I’m wondering if I should bring a box out there, like lay it on its side to give her a more ideal environment but I don’t want to break the brood because my...

For the second year in a row, which is this hen’s whole life, I have a hen that’s gone broody. She’s very dedicated and last year it lasted months. I’ve never hatched eggs before but I want to buy fertilized eggs and put them under her. She’s also the leader of the bunch… am I setting myself up...

I have my first broody hen. She’s been in the nesting box for about a week now and I can’t decide what to do… I have 8 chickens and I don’t have a space where I could separate her to break her and I don’t have a space where I could put her with the new chicks. I am intrigued by putting some...

Hi everyone! First thing I’m look for advice on is a wound. One of my australorps had a cut and the other birds were pecking the blood so I put her in the hospital until it dried up and then released her but kept an eye on her. I just got home from a walk and noticed they were pecking her...

This is my first flock so maybe this is common but… I have 8 chickens, all who hatched in April and there’s only 4 who are laying! I know they sometimes take a break in winter but they never started laying! There are 3 consistently laying and now 1 who I believe just started. I have 2 whiting...

Has anyone tried adding cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes to chicken feed to help boost egg production? Did it work? How much do you add???

…that my current flock will never accept my new chickens? I have 6 chickens, 2 hens that are 24 weeks and 4 pullets 23-24 weeks. The new girls are 13 or 14 week old australorps. I got them September 25th and they’ve been in a crate in the coop with time to free range in the yard with everyone...

So I have 6 chickens, 2 Wyandotte’s, 2 buff rocks, and 2 whiting true blues and they are all about 23-24 weeks old. I just picked up two 13 week Australorps after losing 2 Wyandotte’s. When I first put the new girls in the coop there was some curiosity and they were checking the new girls out...

I went out to the coop this morning and she was fine but I just went out again I saw fresh blood so I found her and brought her inside to keep her from the other chickens. She had an odd poop and I can’t tell what her wound is. She also just “squatted” for me for the first time but still no egg...