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I have a hen who was produced by my barred rock mix rooster (his dad was pure barred rock, but I don’t know what his mom was) mating with one of my (seemingly) black silkie hens. I’m curious to know what her offspring might look like if she’s currently being bred by my silkie rooster. I acquired...

So I had a hen go broody and gave her two of my porcelain d’uccle’s eggs to hatch because I’ve always been curious about what a cross between a porcelain d’uccle hen and a black silkie roo would look like. Well, one of the chicks came out looking exactly like a regular black silkie, and the...

I was doing a vent check last night of all my chickens, and I noticed my rooster’s butt looked quite red a little bit below his vent area. It doesn’t appear to be red everywhere, just in a few of the spots I checked. I’m wondering if it could be depluming mites. He’s not preening himself more...

Is it normal to find grass in my chickens’ poop? I know they eat it as they free range 90% of the time, but I’ve only just recently been seeing a lot of grass in a few poops here and there.

I have a broody silkie hen that has been laying on eggs for the past four days, and today I noticed this white patch of skin on her face. I think one of my bigger hens was trying to lay in the nesting box she was in, so they took a few of her feathers out in the act of trying to get her to move...

I found a sticktight flea on one of my chickens yesterday evening. I didn’t think much of it because I only saw one, and it couldn’t have been on her longer than two hours since I spend a lot of time with her and would’ve noticed had it been otherwise, but then I found two sticktight fleas on...