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Any chance my 3 1/2 week old BCM is still Henrietta? That comb is lookin awfully prominent!

Hi all, I have a young hen about 1 1/2 yrs old, who I found in the run a few hours ago with a major vent prolapse goin' on. She had a couple of almost egg-sized red blobs hanging out of her vent. She was still walking around the run, but wouldn't come get treats with the rest of the...

Ok I'm stumped. I've been scouring the internet and i cant find anything like it. At first I thought it was a lash egg, but when i drummed up the nerve to open it, it was a totally normal egg inside! On the inside, the shell seems like any other...complete with the shell membrane. But on the...

Ok, so if anyone remembers my Maria/Mario chick question a couple months ago...turns out its Mario. 😏 ...i ended up with 6 out of 7 cockerels in that brood... 😵‍💫🤯 Soooooo...i quickly ordered another dozen eggs and the chickies are now almost 6 weeks old. I've figured most of them out, but...

Hi all, I have a 7 1/2 week old mutt I was hoping to get some help with sex determination. Delilah is 3/4 EE...her father is also her grandfather...he's second Generation EE. Her Mother is half EE and half Buff Orp. She's in with my 8 1/2 week old chicks, and holding her own, but still pretty...

ok...bringin' it to the experts cuz I'm a little confused. I ordered hatching eggs...light brown leghorn. These two chicks are turning out awfully dark! 🤪 Do these look right for light brown leghorns? Anyway...I'm less concerned with the exact breed than I am with what sex they might be...

is it too early to tell? Zelda/Zachary(?) is 4 1/2 weeks old. Hard to see in this photo. But shes got a huge fluffy feathery chest...not sure if that means anything, but I thought i read somewhere that girl chicks feather out softer than boys in this breed? The feathers are super soft. I...

So at 4 1/2 weeks, Maria/Marco is so much farther behind all the other chicks i hatched of various breeds(leghorn, cream legbar, cochin, brahma, and even my little "mutt" who is a WEEK younger!), in feathering out, but is soooo much taller than all of em(shes got this incredibly long...

I have a hen almost 3 yrs old, half buff orp, half EE, who was standing around with her eyes closed, not eating when all the others rushed me for treats...huge crop. So i looked around and saw some info on impacted crops...picked her up to see if i could feel any lumps in there, and she started...

Hi. I havent been here in a long time, so please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong place. 🤔 I have a wonderful 3 year old Roo, his name is Russell Crow, and he's such a good boy...never once challenged me or tried to hurt me. He doesn't love it, but he even tolerates me petting...

Hi All, Hoping someone has an idea as to what's wrong with Blanche. She's almost 4 years old. Hasn't laid an egg in a year and a half, but she was a good layer, so I'm letting her "retire" on her own time. ;-) She was always the fatter of the two BO's I've got...always the first at the...

This morning I took my 5 month old rooster to be processed cuz I dont have enough hens for a second rooster and my 1 1/2 year old roo is a sweetheart, so he stays. When I went into the run to get the extra boy, everyone was fine, healthy, happy, ok...maybe a little freaked out cuz I took the...

Hi All, Blanche hasn't laid since last November...when she was just 2 years old...WAY too young to be "done" laying...and she never "tapered off"...just *quit*. Any ideas? ...some background/circumstances/conditions...She's otherwise totally healthy and acts just like her "twin" sister(our...

Hi there experts! I have three chickies that my broody hen dutifully sat on and then raised. They are now almost 9 weeks old. Each is from a different mommy, but all three have the same daddy. He's an Ameraucana as far as I know. The mommies are one Ameraucana, and two Buff Orps. I'm...

One of my almost two year old Buff Orps has had this lump under her vent. She acts completely normal, comb/wattles bright red, lays eggs, eats, drinks, picks on the one chicken lower in the pecking order, and takes her blows from the higher up girls with dignity(runs away, but goes on about her...

I have a buff orp who goes broody every couple of months, and last year in Oct, I let her have a batch of fertile eggs to sit on, but she gave up 3 days early. I figured it was her youth(only a little over a year), and maybe that it was too cool, and maybe that only one egg had a viable baby in...

Hi All, I've got a broody sitting on a clutch of eggs due April 21ish...and I'd like to add a new variety or two to my flock, but I need them to be very young so I have a better chance of her "adopting" them. Is there a good way to find people with day old chicks for sale? Do folks ever tend...

Hi All, I'm hoping someone can help me here. I have 6 chickens, 5 hens and one rooster. They've just finished their first molt...well...all except one...at least I THINK she's still in molt, unless something else is going on...her new beautiful feathers havent come in yet like all the other...