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Hey All. I am planning to raise a larger batch of meat birds this year and am looking for inspiration on where/how to rest them. I usually raise 30 and use my ducks pool and a couple of coolers but I am going to need more room this year. So what do you use to rest your chickens after processing...

Hello. I have the opposite problem of most guinea owners, I can't get them to leave my backyard. I want them to free range over my property, eat ticks and in the spring eat my garden bugs but all they do is sit next to my chickens and turkeys and eat feed all day. They pick on my chickens...

Hello, New to raising ducks. I have 4 Pekins, 3 which are proving to be drakes. I am planning on putting the extra males in the freezer. My question is can I have a pair of Pekins or will the female be over mated by the drake? Thank you! Angie

Hello, One of my hens laid a perfectly round egg today, a small one. I have never seen anything like this, have you?

Hello, I would like to get some geese but am wondering if it's a good idea considering that I my house is located on a large river. Will the geese go to the river and leave? I have a fenced in back yard but they will be able to see the river. Also there are lots of wild Canadian Geese that...

Our hen is still raising her chicks and they are 13 weeks old! In the past she only raised her chicks for 6 weeks or so. I am not sure why she has decided to hang onto these babies for so long? They are almost the same size as her but she still finds food for them and covers them when they are...

Hello. I an ordering some meaties from Welp and was thinking of adding some Speckled Sussex and New Hampshire's onto my order. Has anyone had any experience with these breeds from here? I am not looking for show quality chickens, just healthy good egg layers who pretty up my yard. Thanks, Angie

Hello. My flock has Infectious Bronchitis, I finally got the call from the pathologist today and it's confirmed. I had 5 chickens who died, the chickens who made it through are now starting to show improvement. I'm not sure what to do now though? Should flocks with Infectious Bronchitis be...

I have a chicken that is sneezing and breathing loudly with rattling. She has no other symptoms, no discharge or lethargy she is eating and drinking and acting alright. A couple of weeks ago I had another chicken come down with these symptoms and within a couple hours she was so bad we put her...

Hello All. I am raising some Cornish X's for the first time, I picked them up at my local feed store several days ago. They were supposedly just a few days old but their feathering looked more like a 1 + week old chick. Do the Cornish feather out quicker then the DP chicks or are they just older...

I had a mink kill my pet rabbit and it is now stocking my chickens, the mink needs to go down but I'm not having any luck trapping it. Need some advice, badly! My rabbits have always had free roam of our yard that happens to be on the river, a couple of days ago I was outside and heard blood...

Hi All. I have been reading about worming and my mind is over loaded and I'm more confused then ever! It all seems like foreign language to me and for some reason I can't seem to wrap my mind around any of it. My chickens are a little over 5 months old and I'm planning on bringing in some...

Hello! I want to buy some Ameraucana's off of Craig's List but need some expert advice- my last buy off CL was a bit of a regret because I had no clue what I was doing. The chickens that I want to buy are described as from show stock, they are aprox 6 months old and I am buying a breeding...

Hello, My 21 week old Light Brahma Tulip is sick, I think? The past several days I have noticed a couple of the girls kind of sneezing, but it was high pitched (almost the sound they make when another chicken pecks their butt) and I wasn't sure if was an actual sneeze or not. I've been keeping a...

Please share your pain, I know I'm not the only one hosing down the patio everyday! The girls share our back yard which includes our brick patio with our nice patio furniture. I knew they pooped a lot but it's hard to actually prepare for just how much poop and that they poop everywhere! It's...

Hi All. I have 2 splash Cochins that are 14 weeks old and can not tell if they are pullets or cockerels. I have 2 blue Cochins from the same hatch and it is so obvious which is a pullet and which is a cockerel but the splash are right in the middle and I am just not sure what they are? I had...

Hello! I am just curious of others that have ordered Light Brahma's through My Pet Chicken and what your chicks/chickens look like? Mine look nothing like Light Brahma's and was wondering whom else has experienced this? Did yours ended up being light? Will you post pics of your chicks and...

Hello! My Light Brahma's are going to be 9 weeks old in a couple of days and I am so confused about their gender. Our LB Tulip has feathered in super slow compared to her/his sister making me think Tulip was a roo? But now I am not so sure because he/she is not getting a red comb or wattles...

Hi All! Can you help me figure out the sex of my Cochins? I have four and they are 8 weeks old. The Blue Cochin's I am pretty sure I have a pair- pretty obvious one is a cockeral but please correct me if I am wrong. But the Splash Cochins I am having trouble with They are so much smaller then...

Hello! Question? We are planning to process our roo's, (they are dual purpose birds that are 8 weeks old now) will they be big enough to process about the time they start crowing? Should I be doing something different with them to get them to a better weight? A couple breeds I'm still not...