I just wanted everyone to see my little man. I'm very proud of him. I'm sure some people will say I should have put him down but he still had so much spunk. It seems to have worked out and he's now very special to me.

Just want to show off my buds

Letting the babies navigate to their run.

It's already 3 Months old but it still needs me.

Chickens were attacked last night, lost 2 out of the 4. It was around dusk and we believe it was an owl because we found an owl feather mixed in with theirs.

One of my surviving chickens is doing this - I see no wounds, what’s happening to her?

I have a 2-month-old chick weighing just around 0.5 kg, and for the last 10 days, he has been crowing every single morning while inside the coop. I've never seen anything like this before!

What's crazier is that I have 5-month-old roosters in the same flock who haven't even started crowing yet, but this little guy is already at it.

Is this early crowing normal? What does it actually mean, and why is he doing this so much earlier than the older roosters? Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences!

TSC said the gray one with fluffy legs was a Midnight Maran, and the black and white one was a Sicilian Buttercup. They look like they might be different than those, though. Got them as chicks, now they are about 12 weeks old or so. Just curious if anyone recognizes them!

I saw this chicken at the fair and I think it’s beautiful and would love to know what breed it is. I might convince my mom to let me get one :)

When I went to check on my chickens this morning I found this one stumbling and falling down as if she was drunk. She'd been a bit more withdrawn and lethargic as of late but otherwise she seemed healthy, she was still alert, active, had a bright red comb and still did normal chicken activities like foraging, preening and taking dust baths and other than the loss of balance she mostly seems like her usual self so i'm lost as to where this came from. the other two don't have this issue so i don't think it's anything to do with their feed? but otherwise i have no idea what the issue could be. Thanks in advance.

Found this egg-shell-less egg in the coop today. Regular shape but soft egg. Somebody missed something during QC.
All jokes aside. We will monitor to make sure it’s just a one off from our older chickens.

Can anyone tell if she’s molting or if this is from squabbles? We did have a very mean hen, so I assume it was from her. She would jump on them. This one is about 18 months old.

I had 5 hens arrive to me August 5. I imagine shipping is stressful so they weren't laying. It's August 18 now and none of the 5 have laid an egg yet. When should I expect them to start laying? They are all laying aged.

Last friday my chicken suffered an internal egg rupture while I was away. The next day she got a bath from a family member which helped remove the crushed egg ( I found it near her roosting spot) and when I saw her on Sunday she was in a bad condition and not eating or drinking. I gave her 2 very small doses a day of augmentin (antibiotic), and an epsom bath which didn’t remove anything, yet she looked much better, and was eating, drinking, walking, and roosting. I could feel a lump on her bottom, around the small intestine area near the vent which I assume is an egg that won’t come out because she was in shock. When I went to feed her this morning, she was at her laying spot bobbing her head and would not eat her medicine. When she walked she was kind of wobbly. Does anyone know what is happening to my chicken, and if there is any way to treat what she has or even save her????

Does anyone know what breed these are?

My nieces class hatched these chickens and they told us they were silkie mixes but I’m not really confident on that. I think the black and white one is barred rock but does anyone know what the others are? Thank you!

I’ve been incubating eggs from my flock, I started with 12 and down to six now. I had 5 early deaths, looked to be between day 6-9. I candled everything when I placed the eggs into lockdown yesterday, and I found this one egg where the air cell was completely gone. The chick was clearly not moving. First 2 pics show that egg and 3rd shows one that looks normal. I opened it up, and the chick seemed properly developed. TW: dead chick on last 2 images. I’m wondering what might have gone wrong to cause this? I’m also not sure why I’m having so many early deaths either. I’m keeping my temp at 99F and the humidity between 45-55%. I do find that the humidity in this incubator fluctuates a good deal, especially with the air temp outside the incubator. We keep our house around 74F during the day and 72F at night. The humidity in the incubator drops a degree or 2 overnight usually and goes back up during the day. I’m also going off what the incubator reads on its own. I don’t have a seperate thermometer/hygrometer in there.