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Free floating yolk I have put some eggs under a broody hen on Saturday; I did a quick candling tonight (day 3) to see if I could see anything. Two I can clearly see development (embryo and veins), but one in particular seems to have a freely floating yolk, it’s a tan coloured egg so difficult...

Seems I have this lice situation here - nasty creepy crawly things. I can treat all the birds with Ivermectin, and I am fine with that - most are molting or just coming out of being broody or just old pensioners so they are not laying, thus egg withdrawl is not a problem for me. My question...

I have these two chicks, one is a Polish x Silkie (likely a pullet), and the other a pure Silkie. Both have a bald spot on top of their head with no feathers growing in. This isn’t a case of other pecking them, they have just gone bald. Both were born with baby fuzzies and as they got their...

My nine month old pullet Rose presented with this excessive laboured rattly gurgley breathing at roost time. I did not notice it a few hrs earlier when they were running about. The weather here has been extremely hot and excessively humid, I put the fan on high in the hen house were they roost...

I have four 6-week old chicks that I am trying to guess the gender with. The Daddy is a 'barnyard-mix easter-egger' type. Each chick is from a different hen. I have numbered the chicks in the photos 1 to 4: Chicks 1 & 2 are from Silkie hens Chick 3 is from an Americauna Chick 4 is from a Copper...

This was sent to me by a boss a couple years ago, when just watched it and it reminded me of my silly hens 😄 enjoy!

My Silkie/Cochin X pullet went all broody so I gave her 4 eggs to sit on, meanwhile my other Silkie decided to be broody at the same time; I tried to stop the Silkie from her broody behaviour but not good. So I tolerated her being broody at the same time as the other hen - just in case the other...

Is it normal for chickens to have loose stools while molting? I have a year and half old hen who is going through her first big molt and she is having loose stools. She is eating and pecking around outside but she looks unhappy; of course she generally is shy and goes off on her own and is lower...

My three silkie pullets don't have the common sense to come inside during a storm, they hid under my Blue Spruce about 30' from the barn doorway getting soaked. Meanwhile my 7, 10-week old barnyard mix chicklets came running inside to wait out the storm. This is the second time the Silkies have...

I have three ~20 week old Silkies. The one who is a Silkie/Cochin cross started laying a couple weeks ago, I was sure she was a Rooster till one day about a month ago I went to pick her up and she did this squatting 'thing'. At first it startled me (being new to chickens) but realized it was the...