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Hello BYC! Merry Christmas to everyone! I am sorry I have to ask for help on Christmas but any help at all will be very much appreciated. This morning I went out to our Chicken tractor to go check on the pullets. In the chicken tractor we have 6 smaller pullets and 2 bigger pullets. But this...

Today I noticed on one of our young chickens, Elle, had a weird black scab on her eye. I picked her up and saw that her eye was also swollen and scabbed in two spots. Is this something I should be concerned about? Should I treat her in any specific ways? Is her eye ok? Is there any medicine or a...

Hello BYC! :frow One one of our hens decided to sit on some eggs in our brooding box and successfully hatched one chick.:jumpy I was wondering if there are any special things we need to do for this chick. Thanks, BYC!

Hello everyone :frow , we have a medium flock of 50 chickens but wanted to know what the best dual purpose chicken breed is, but it also has to be able to free range well (we have noticed Easter Eggers don't forage very well) we also need the chickens to be able to handle lots of heat and pretty...

We just got this Easter Egger but we don't know if it is a Hen or Cockerel. The tail feathers are starting to curl but it doesn't have a big comb or waddle. All of our other roos that are the same age have pretty big combs and waddles, I don't know if it is just different with Easter Eggers...

My 5 year old Chicken (Will be 6 in September) Is making really loud gurgling noises. She also has a squishy Crop but her head doesn't smell sour. I already checked down her throat but couldn't see any worms, but what I did see was her tounge, it looks really weird, kinda like it is dried up or...

Hello, I am from Lake City Florida. I love chickens and have a backyard flock of 50 chickens, 15 of them being chicks and 10 of them being pullets. My favorite hobbies are riding horses 🐴 baking 🎂 and of course just being with the chicks 🐓

This is a picture of my female pullet. I have no idea what she is other than her mama being a Dorking, but not a red Dorking a regular one. The roosters it could be mixed with are Delaware, Silkie or of course, Dorking but she doesn't have five toes like Dorkings do. And again the Dorkings we...