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I wouldn’t worry too much. I have a hen that lays brown eggs with white speckles all over the outside, which, according to the article, is caused by excess calcium. However, she eats all flock feed with free-choice calcium on the side. It’s been over a year and she still lays the same speckled...

The hen is definitely black with a green iridescence. I have Blue Ameraucanas and they are a noticeably different color than her.

I just recently hatched out my first chicks from my own flock and I got some that were a different color than I expected. I have a Splash Ameraucana rooster (he’s my only rooster) and I hatched out three chicks from my Black Copper Marans eggs (I only have one Marans hen) in order to get some...

I live in Southern Idaho and I look at the KSL classifieds frequently and I’ve seen people selling silkie hatching eggs before in different parts of Utah. Silkies seem to be in high demand this year and a lot of them aren’t the best layers, so that could be one factor in why it’s so hard to find...

I have a Splash Ameraucana rooster that I really like. He was raised up under a flock led by an Old English Game bantam rooster and a bunch of mature hens. He does a great job of watching out for the flock, calls the ladies over for treats, and dances for them when he wants to mate. All of my...

I had a lavender Orpington that got a prolapsed vent last year and I tried the warm soak, cleaning it, pushing it back in, etc. and nothing was working. She would push it back out the second I let her go. I was feeling pretty overwhelmed at the time and decided to do one last attempt and if she...

I have a Black Australorp and I love her to pieces. She is the friendliest of my flock, great layer, and never gets into any fights with the other chickens. I would say they are a great choice for any flock!

I ordered some blue ameraucana from Cackle last year and yours actually looks a lot like mine if they didn’t have the beard and muffs. Yours is quite a bit lighter than mine as well. The muff and beard are what make ameraucana’s so cute, so I can completely understand why you would be upset! I...

So I don’t have even a smidgen of knowledge that a lot of others have on this site, however, I recently lost one of my little bantams to a similar problem. In my case, a family member was feeding a lot of scratch grains and food scraps to my chickens daily and I think it led to a vitamin...

I live at high elevation and we get really cold in the winter. Last winter we had -30 degree days and some bitter cold wind chill on top of that. I use a 5 gallon bucket with a lid on it, nipple waterers all around the bottom, and then I stick a submersible heater in the bucket. I never had any...

So cute! It does look like you have one of each color.

I have some some splash and blue Ameraucanas that are almost 8 weeks old and they are all beautiful little chickens except this one…I think she is an “extra” Blue Ameraucana that the hatchery threw in. She was noticeably smaller as a chick and is still runty looking compared to the others. She...

I have 13 straight run Splash Ameraucana from Cackle and I’m having a hard time figuring out the gender of two. They’re 6 weeks old. I’m leaning towards cockerels on both, but I’m not sure. They aren’t quite as red as the other cockerels, but they also are pinker than the obvious pullets that...

I have an Easter egger, an Olive Egger, and a Cream Legbar. The Olive Egger is the flightiest chicken by far out of my entire flock. The Cream Legbar will run to greet me but she is NOISY! Constantly making loud chicken noises. I don’t know if all Legbars are like that, but she is a talker!

I just found this egg, which I’m pretty sure is the first egg from one of my younger chickens. I’ve never seen anything like it before. I’ve heard of brown and green eggs with brown speckles, but never a brown egg with white speckles…does this indicate a problem with the hen? Some kind of...

Can anyone tell me if this is a Crele Old English Game Bantam? That’s the closest guess I can come up with but I can’t find many juvenile pictures of that breed online to compare him with. He’s 8 weeks old and teeny tiny. He came from an assorted bantam bin at the feed store.

where did you get her from?

Almost two weeks ago I purchased these two chicks from the Black Copper Marans bin at C-A-L Ranch (I’ve heard they source their chicks from Welp?). I’ve never had this breed before, but one of the chicks looks like a different kind of Marans than the other. I was wondering if anyone could tell...

I was wondering if anyone could tell me what breeds these bantams are? From C-A-L Ranch assorted bantam bin. #1 #2

I live in a pretty cold, harsh climate and I usually move my Cornish X out of the brooder at 3 weeks. If temperatures are going to be cold at night then I put them in the brooder for the night. I do this until they are fully feathered, then they stay outside permanently. In my experience they...