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I just signed up for CoopCrate and was wondering if anyone had used them before? I'm a little concerned that there is no "Log-in" to check order status, etc. But I'm excited to try it. I guess if it's a scam, I'll only be taken once and will dispute it with the credit card. But I'm eager to see...

Our 7 month old Australorp pullet, Angelina, hatched several eggs 4 weeks ago. She has been a sweet and dutiful mama, but seems to have lost interest in her chicks - and laid her first egg since being broody today. However, she doesn't watch out for them like she used to and seems to be...

I found a hen in the run with a prolapse vent. I need a sanity check to make sure I've treated her appropriately. For reference, she is a 12 month old Amerecauna named Sweetie. I've done the following: Separated her Soaked her in an Epsom salt bath Pushed the prolapse back in Treated her with...

All the adorable hatchlings from our Silver Bielefelders autosex breed have hatched! 🐣🌟 We've got what we think are 3 sweet girls and two handsome boys strutting their stuff, but we're looking for a bit of confirmation on one of them. Can you lend your expert eye and help us out? 🕵️‍♂️🔍

We are candling eggs - day 14 and came across these two eggs. The first one is a video, so I could try to show the shadowy movement. Is this normal? It doesn't look like the other eggs. Please forgive the music. It was to drown out background music: Has this egg died? I don't see any growth...

We have lots of oyster shell and feed egg shells back. We also feed an all flock due to mixed ages and cockerels. All other eggs are normal - and thick shell. What causes this?

So, I got four chicks from a local feed store. They were all supposed to be sapphire olive eggers. However, this one looks nothing like the other. Any clue as to what she is? I've looked at Hoover's website and am stumped. David thinks Barred Rock? She was hatched in November. We got her in...

A few days ago, I asked about a cream legbar hen and Australorp offspring. Today, a chick hatched that I know is from an Lavender Amerecauna. The father is either a cream legbar rooster or an Australorp rooster. The hatchling is mostly black with a white dot. To my knowledge, neither cross is a...

Our 5 month old broody hatched two chicks. The babies are a cream legbar mother and Australorp father. Are these chicks sex linked? If so, am I right to assume this one is a male? Thanks!

Our broody seems to have hatched out one chick last night. We are super excited about this! It's our very first mama. However, she was sitting on four eggs. At what point do we take the remaining three unhatched eggs from under her?

We recently received 4 female Silver Bielefelders, 2 male from Greenfire Farms. I attached a photo of one of the males holding his wings away from his sides. We noticed that all of the chicks are holding their wings like this at all times. None of our other chicks from other breeds are doing...

We're thrilled to share our first-ever hatch with you! Tonight, we've set 7 beautiful Silver Bielefelder eggs from GreenFire Farms in our incubator, and the excitement is palpable. As beginners, we're eager to learn and share in this journey with the amazing community here at...

We are so excited! We just drove 3 hours to Greenfire Farms to pick up 3 silver girls, a boy, and some hatching eggs. They gave us two extra birds, and an extra egg! Otw home now for them to meet their future flock mates - 4 Marans.

My husband saw one of the other pullets pecked her and picked her up. He noticed this very hard lesion (?) On her back. I soaked her in Epsom salts - which she loved. Treated her with vetricyn and, after it dried, rubbed her with some Vaseline. She is spending some time separated. I'm not sure...

I apologize if this is the wrong thread, but it didn't seem like an emergency and more of a chicken behavior issue. I have a few pullets who are missing feathers on the back of their heads. I know about hen saddles for mating, but that only protects their backs and I'm also concerned about...

We have a broody sitting on four marked eggs. She is on the top nest box of a duplex row. This morning, we found one of marked eggs two boxes away - but still on the top row. Nobody had gathered eggs yet, so people didn't do this. This wasn't on the bottom row - but the top.

We have an Australorp pullet possibly going broody. She opted to sleep in the nesting box last night, and hasn't moved off it today. She was hatched on 31 July 2023. And she started laying eggs in possibly, November. So, my questions: Is she possibly going broody at such a young age? If she is...

One of our pullets died this morning. She seemed fine at 6 am and dead at 11. My husband found her on the PDZ poop board covered in dirt. She was a beautiful 8 month old cream legbar. The weird thing is rigor had already set in. Is that normal? So far, no signs of a struggle. What should I...

This is white Meat. He was hatched on July 31. He is an australorp and one of our backyard chickens. We found his eye like this today. He cannot open it except for a slit and we can see that he is still looking around with it. I have no idea what happened. Is this an injury or illness? All the...

Tomorrow night, we will be in the teens. In Florida, we have been averaging 40s at night. We have 17 australorps born in July and 15 cream leg bars born in June. Obviously, they aren't acclimated to such cold temperatures. We have two coops. One is 8x10. The other is 18x10. They both have...