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I have 3 broody hens in nesting boxes that I had marked eggs under. One egg had just hatched under one and she had 2 other under her. Next day no sign of chick anywhere and another egg is gone too. IM having other eggs disappearing too in the past week. No sign of a predator no hurt chickens no...

Any ideas on how to put a removable divider in this brooder we are making?!?!

Finally after raising chickens for 6 years now we processed 4 of extra roosters for the first time. They were smaller, mixed breeds around 6months but I wanted to make use out of them. We ended up cutting the spine out and spatchcock (is that the right way to say that?!) since they were small...

I always have the most trouble with identifying genders on my mixed breeds. I don’t believe I’m seeing any hackle or saddle feathers though???!?! 3 different chickens total I’m trying to identify. Thoughts?

Help! What is this and what can I do? Chick is walking around fine in incubator still.

Coming from polish chickens that were hatched in March…what am I dealing with?

We are building 2 breeding pens that will eventually have attached runs. There are 2 windows that stay open and the top part of the door also stays open. Is this enough ventilation or what do I need to add? The back wall and left wall are the sides the rain comes in and I don’t have an over hang...

This was sold to my daughter at a swap sale as a day old silkie…. I’m guessing male and it’s getting some brown feathers in. What do we have?!

I have a feeling we kept all the boys 😳😭….

Noticed my hens foot was swollen and then she had a scab on the bottom. I pulled the scab part out and then tried squeezing but nothing came out. What should I do? I sprayed it with Vetericyn Plus Antimicrobial Poultry Care Spray and put her on the roost for the night since it was late.

I have an 8 week old Tolbunt Polish that I just noticed today has droopy wings and is acting stand off-ish at the feeder. I’m working on setting her up in an isolation pen but any ideas what’s going on and what I need to do?

Treated entire flock and total clean out and spray down of coop with Permethrin 10 that I mixed using the 1:19 ratio (6.4oz per gallon) a week ago. I had a few that looked pretty rough but not horrible then tonight a week later when treating again they look worse! This was the first time I...

We are converting goat barn (left section) into a coop for 2 separate breeding coops/ pens which we will add outdoor run to and I’d like to have a good brooder area too. Please help with layout and how to section off! Also the ground inside currently stays pretty wet so I have dug it out some...

So the polish breeder I got my hatching eggs from obviously had an oops and said a silkie rooster must have got into her pen, or she may have gotten eggs mixed up or one of the new hens she got carries the Housman gene…some hatched out with 5 toes. I sold all of the ones with 5 toes already as...

This rooster is laying around a lot and limping bad on this leg. We washed his foot and I felt his leg and nothing seemed swollen or warm. Only thing I see is the spot on the end of his toe. We covered the foot in iodine and then sprayed it with vetericyn. Any other suggestions?

This little was born with a cyst type thing right over its eye….it’s about 3 weeks old now and today it looks like this….I have now isolated it because I’m thinking the others got curious and started pecking maybe. It’s never bled before and you could see it’s eyeball. Advice please 😢 Current...

I hatched these from shipped eggs from a breeder… how do they look? I’ve tried looking up pictures of Tolbunt chicks but they are all so different and. Ones coloring looks quite a but different than the others. I’ve never raised polish! @NatJ @nicalandia @MysteryChicken @TheOddOneOut

Is this yolk that’s didn’t get absorbed?? This chick hatched about 8 hours ago. It was the last to hatch by a good 12hrs. What can I do to help it?? It’s still in the incubator.

These both started pip’ing over 12 hours ago and no other progress has been made. All other eggs have hatched. Is it time to assist?

~20 weeks, never crowed but I think I just saw him trying to mount one of my pullets…. Is he 100% cockerel?