This is Pickles, my 13-week-old bantam rooster. I raised him from a chick, and he’s been well cared for with lots of love. Unfortunately, he and my established rooster are not getting along, and my hens have made it clear they won’t accept him. For his safety and happiness, Pickles needs a new...
I’m not sure why. And I’m not sure how to fix it. I have a blue sapphire hen who’s around a year old. She’s not aggressive to any other birds, animals, or people. She just for some reason hates my younger dog. Both my dogs leave the chickens alone and she doesn’t have a problem with my older dog...
Hello all, I am new to this website as well as raising chickens. Recently we got a chicken from a friend (about a month ago) and she seems to be the only one sick in my coop. I previously had cedar shavings in the coop that I switched to pine due to advice from tractor supply. My chicken has...
Hi everyone, I’d like help to identify one of my 17 week old chickens. She’s a girl so I’d just like help with the breed, I know all my chickens breed for a fact but not her. Thank you
If personality traits help: she’s very friendly, the friendliest and very docile but very sassy and vocal
This is just regular yard soil. Following advice I got here, I brought some in from the spot where their future coop will be, so they can get used to it before I start letting them outside for supervised playtime.
But now I am noticing they might be eating it rather than using it for dust...
I am moving and unfortunately can only take 6 hens with me. I have 6 ducks (2 Rouen hens, 2 runner hens, 1 magpie hen, and 1 crested Swedish blue drake), 2 geese (female Toulouse and embden unknown sex), and then 8 hens and 2 roosters (various breeds) that would need a home. All were hatched...
My white Leghorn who is just over a year has been limping. She recently came home with another one of my hens, who is fine, and when we got home she started limping and not walking very much, just laying down and using her wing to help prop her up. We have about a 15 min car ride and I’m not...
I bred a Blue Copper Marans to my flock. I know her mom is one of my pea combed hens, and that leaves me a couple of options;
Buff Brahma
Splash Oliver Egger mixes (2 different hens)
Splash Brahma
Green Queen mix
Lavender Ameraucana
A blue/red Easter Egger (idk how to describe her other than...
I have a small banty coop with only two chickens in it right now, I was wondering what I should think about if trying to get a mixed flock with bantams and pigeons! Would the pigeons need a separate roosting/nesting area? I’m already planning on adding more perches for them that the chickens...
I have a 2 year old female blue australorp that has been losing her feathers. She is not one to be bullied. Does anyone know why this might be happening?
Has anyone bought this Apdoe 12 egg incubator? I’m having issues with humidity I’m just leaving my house for work and for the past hour I’ve been fighting on getting the humidity to come down each day I come back from work I’ll notice it’s at 53-68 but just leaving it kept climbing up to 60 any...
Some updated photos of our flock that includes their age and breed.
Thoughts on hen or rooster for our flock? We're pretty sure Bonbon is a rooster... We're not allowed roosters in the city we live in 😭
Thanks in advance!
I posted last week that I found this olive egger on its side stuck behind the nesting condo. It must have been there for 4 days while I was on vacation and my animal sitter didn't see it. I brought it in and gave vitamins, scrambled eggs etc to make it strong but at this point I don't think it's...
Hello friends,
I need some advice. I have two broody hens sitting on two fertilised eggs each, which I gave them because I don't have the heart to break their brooding, especially because one of them is 10 years old. They still have 10 days to go till the eggs hatch. Problem is the flock has...
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I’ve got a hen with sour crop and we did the 24 hours no food or water and she was still pretty sick. After two doses of Medastatin she seems like 95% better. She’s hard as heck to get meds into so I’m wondering what the minimum duration of treatment. Don’t want to keep stressing her...
Hello, first time chicken owner here! I've tried my very best to sex this chick but I just am not familiar enough with sickle and saddle feathers to see the difference. What do the experts think? Hen or Roo?
3 months old, comb and waddles are bright red and significantly larger than the rest of...
Hello! I have three Polish roosters that were gifted to me.
The one that does not have the best head feathering I believe is a candy corn. Not sure on the other two colors but I believe they are good quality. I think one’s a silver and the lighter candy corn ish color I’m not sure- please tell...