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My beautiful backyard flock was wiped out by fox in one afternoon when pen was not secured. no hens, no eggs Must be local MA/RI or willing to ship please no hatchery stock, will pay premium

I'm bringing two entries to the agricultural fair tomorrow. .. What do I need to bring? What do I need to do? Are they judged the same day and come home the same day? Do I need to bring them food and water? Help! I have no idea what to expect

Two 6 week old Chicks from show quality lines at Heavenly Feathered Farm for sale. I have too many bantams and have decided to focus on large fowl for my small flock. These Chicks are outdoors without additional heating/lighting. Hand raised and fed an organic diet. They were hatched from eggs...

I have a buff orpington hen set to hatch turkey poults in the next day or two, so my question is, when the hatch should I take them and put them in a brooder or leave them with the chicken hen?

I'd like to enter some of my birds in the local agricultural fair as a learning experience, can you tell me which I should enter? I'm not familiar with standards/colors, are any of these acceptable? Lemonblue cochin bantam Lavender orpington Polish- frizzle blue, wc blue, wc cuckoo

Young roo, born on Valentine's day 2013 F2 Olive Egger- carries olive egg gene put him with your FBCMs/Welsummers/Easter Eggers Gorgeous fully feathered shanks, vibrant coloring, cheek muffs, hand raised, nice temperment Neighbors and Town Ordinance Says No Roos so must go as quickly as...

Young roo, born on Valentine's day 2013 F2 Olive Egger- carries olive egg gene put him with your FBCMs/Welsummers/Easter Eggers Gorgeous fully feathered shanks, vibrant coloring, cheek muffs, hand raised, nice temperment Neighbors and Town Ordinance Says No Roos so must go as quickly as possible

Tell me she's a girl. ..

Was sure it's a pullet, now I'm head scratching

I free range my hens We are a state tested clean flock The girls are fed an organic diet I never use antibiotics or any hormones. I charge $3.50/half dozen or $5/dozen for large/extra large assorted eggs What are your conditions and prices? How do you sell your eggs? I use a cooler at the...

I have a white silkie bantam hen She was fine yesterday, this morning when I opened the hen house one of her eyes was shut. I don't see any sign of external injury and there's no bubbling. I brought her in and wiped it with a warm compress and put some optixcare eye lubricant gel in and it...

I put my hens on countryside organics layer feed, it is organic and soy free. Is it safe to be feeding it to my pekins?

I have a young silkie and a young mille fleur d'uccle both more or less a yr old. Each has laid a single egg this season approximately two weeks ago...and nothing since! What gives? Is this normal? I've checked the yard no eggs stashed anywhere. No signs of egg eating from any of my hens...

I have been feeding Nutrena Naturewise but I'd like to find a commercially available feed that's organic and soy free- can someone recommend?

F2 Olive egger

This chick pipped early yesterday and has been struggling Is the thing attached normal or prolapsed? [/IMG]

A chick hatched in the incubator over night tonight and while banging around in there damaged another egg pretty good. The egg had not pipped externally (too dark to see if it pipped internally) and I didn't hear anything from the damaged egg. Nothing liquid came out of the damage egg. What...

I'm going crazy I clean the brooder and in five minutes it's disgusting. Between the water bowl and poo it's awful. Is there a way to keep the brooder clean for at least the day? The box with shavings is clean and dry for a nesting area, but everything else got disgusting quick

Day 20 Egg 6 at the top- is the beginning of a pip? Can you tell this is my first time hatching eggs? lol