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The chicks are 8wks old and have half a bag of medicated starter I also have half a bag of layer feed. The Cockrell is a chick. I've been mixing the food until it's gone. My next food do I go ahead and get all flock? I don't want to hurt my little guy. The ladies have oyster shell...

Tonight was the first night the babies and the ladies were together without a barrier in the coop. The babies are 7 wks old and have been in the coop with a barrier for two weeks. This morning after the ladies had left the run into the yard we took the barrier down. It took a little while but...

5 wks old, bought at feed store as a pullet. These are my first little chicks bought and I've read americana are very hard to sex. This one stands tall and has crazy long legs.

I was out feeding and watering around 645 I was talking to the babies in the coop and the ladies were out in the chicken yard. All of a sudden the crows start going off. I look around and there is the biggest owl I've ever seen in a tree about 30 yards away! That thing was ginormous! I do a...

So I've been brooding my first chicks in my spare bedroom for almost 5 wks now. Everything had gone well so far. The plan is to move them to the coop this weekend. I'm currently weaning them off the heat light. It's 73 degrees in my house and everyone is almost fully feathered. The first...

My 7 chicks are growing fast and I'm starting my plan for their integration into my now small flock of 5 ladies. I got the babies the same day but I believe they range in age from 3-6 wks old. The bigger babies are starting to get bored with the whole brooder thing. The question is this...

So this happened. I have hawk string over my entire huge chicken yard. The other day my husband looked out and saw a hawk on the ground in the chicken yard. The girls were just standing together in a group looking at it. Like, what ya gonna do now hawk? You gonna try and eat us all hawk...

Yall I need some help. I just got some chicks for the first time! I got the chick starter kit they had at the store and 7 precious peeps. 1 buff orby 1 partridge rock 1 splash gem 2 mystic marans and 2 ee. The splash has dried poo on her butt. What do I do? She is so so tiny I'm afraid...

Hello fellow chicken folks. Can I just brag on my good hen for a sec. I have a 3 yr old Black Australorp named Ruth and she is second in command. Ive always known she is a good hen from how she was a couple of years ago when I had another hen that we suspected to have had a stroke. She had...

Ya'll I need your advice. I have a flock of 9 ladies ages 3 yrs old and 1 yr old. My neighbor across the street has bantams. They are the cutest things and I decided I wanted some too. Of course he has several roosters he can't get rehomed but only 2 hens he would give me. The only time I...

So I have 9 girls. 2 of which are white leghorns 3 yrs old. Betty and Rose. A couple of months ago Rose was feeling poorly and started laying soft shell and fairy eggs. Betty started eating said eggs. Nobody else's just Rose. Well after a couple of weeks she started feeling better but had...

OK so out of sheer desperation I had to change out my pine shavings for pine pellets in my coop and it is working fantastic so far. I'm a scooper and that was causing a huge problem with my over flowing compost pile. I don't have acres and acres of land. I have a good size yard but ran out of...

So Mother nature decided my run didn't need a roof. Standing at the kitchen window I watch the wind lift the roof off. The girls are fine, scared but fine. The run is completely enclosed over the top to the bottom with HWC so no worry about predators. I'm thankful we went to the time and...

So I stepped outside minute ago and saw what I think was a flock , 70 or so hawks I think. It was getting dark so I could not see very well but the size and shape were about right. We live in a very popular area for migrating birds of all kinds. I've even seen the Sandhill cranes! But I've...

I have 2 Delaware that will be laying at any day now. The past couple of days I have been finding egg yolk in the nest box and once under the roost bars. No shells like a broken egg, just yellow yolk. Yesterday Jenny had yellow on her side and breast. Not a lot, but enough to notice. Do...

Someone on the sight had a great idea for how to rake up feathers by spritzing them with water so they don't fly around so much. I got the idea to put a few sprigs of fresh rosemary in the bottle. I've used it a few times and it smells amazing. But is it OK to do? Guess I should have asked...

First night of integration done. With 1 unexpected result. We moved the babies, 2 Delaware and 2 Saphire gems 15 wks old into the coop last night after dark and put them on the roost next to one of the nicer hens. I didn't know what to expect as i have never done this before and we were out of...

OK my hens are 2 and a half yrs. old. I got 4 pullets a couple weeks ago. They are 10 weeks old. The hens eat layer feed and I put the chicks on medicated starter. I would like to start integrating the pullets soon but I can't have everyone eating everyone else's food. Right now I hang the...

I took my 18 month old SLW to the vet yesterday for suspected water belly. She had a mass the size of a baseball that was red and squishy. The vet said the reason could be one of four things, none of them good or fixable. Whinnie is not used to being physically handled a lot so she got very...

Guys my coop as gone crazy. 1 lady as taken to sleeping in a bare floor nesting box. 1 lady is in a hard, HARD molt. She is practically nekid. This morning I go out to the run and one of my leghorns head is covered in blood. We caught her up, cleaned her up and patched her up. I didnt...