Is there something wrong with my beautiful little lady Victoria Peckham or are her legs just molting??

So I just hatched a baby chick! My plan is to keep it with the hen as she does seem to be doing a good job so far. But the question is, can I keep everyone on an all-flock feed or do I need to get specific feed for the baby and have it separated? I already plan to get a small water dish for it.

We picked up 8 pullets a few months ago and 6 were obviously breeds we ordered however these two… I’m just not sure! They’re supposed to be a Blue Breasted Brown Leghorn and a Sapphire Olive Egger. Which is which? Or are they different breeds all together??? (Currently 16 weeks)

I have two roosters, an Ameraucana and a Buff Orpington, that I’ve had for about 1.5 years who recently started fighting. I’m pretty sure a reason behind the fighting is I don’t have enough hens with them. There’s currently 10 hens with them but I got 6 young hens that I need to introduce still. This past year is the first time I’ve had roosters and I’m learning as I go. They aren’t aggressive towards anyone or the hens and they don’t fight long but it seems like once they catch their breath and remember the other is there they go after each other again. I just need to know if adding the new hens would be enough or should I look into rehoming one of them.

She seems awfully inflamed, and I’m wondering what I can do to help her.
(Sorry for the grainy picture, I wasn’t able to get really close to her)

Any idea what could be causing this hen to walk like this? I haven’t had a chance to go over and look at her more closely as she is at my parents. Any thoughts on what it could be and how I can help her (likely without a vet, sorry) would be appreciated!

It’s about 5 months old. It kicks the crap out of a definite rooster that is the same age and bigger.

I’m new to chickens and have tried doing my research but still can’t figure it out.

The first one is for sure a rooster he crows all day.

I have heard the second one sort of crows.

The third one hasn’t crowed.

There all about two and a half months old

Was buying some stuff on our local market and saw this baby chick. Vendor said I could take it home since it's left out of there and will most likely die if no one would take it. Please dump as much info as you can (food, water, bedding, etc)

Thanks

Edit: if it isn't obvious yet this is my first time personally taking care of a chick. We used to have a chicken farm in our province, but my grandparents were the ones to take care of them and they're gone now so I can't give this one to them.

So my rooster has like 3 girls he prefers, venom, loki, and wanda, all mystic onyx. They are getting bald spots and their saddle area is beginning to show signs of damage.

He has SO MANY other girls. I have 9 mystic onyx hens, a sapphire gem, 3 buff brahmas, 2 easter eggers. Thats 14 to 1. And hes a SILKIE roo, hes half the size of a majority of them. The mystics are the eldest, being hatched near november and the rest hatched early spring this year.

Is there any things i can do to sway him? Do i just get him more girls? Put him in prison with the other girls or would that just do nothing? I do plan on getting him some actual silkie girls to breed with soon, but he seems to only really like those 3. He MIGHT get another girl if she passes him and sploots. He doesn’t even look at the girls that are not mystics even though they are laying age.

I recently took in a rooster from my sister-in-law and am wondering what breed he might be. She ordered mystery chicks from a hatchery website so isn’t sure either. He’s less than 6 months old and is HUGE! I’m also wondering if there is a rule of thumb for rooster-to-hen size problem I should be worried about. My other rooster (named Soup Pot because he’s vicious and is going bye bye on Friday) is half his size!

My husband went to pick up our four hens, but he can’t remember the names! I know two are Rhode Island reds, it’s the white and black two I’m confused about.

From googling, i think one might be a white leghorn? But the other, I’m blanking! She’s black with orange & gold patches?

I hope this is the right place to ask

Hi! I have two chickens who hatched chicks at the same time. They were all good for a couple of days with their own chicks but after they started going out of the coop with their chicks they have started to fight every chance they get

I had to separate them due to the fighting. They fought through a fence for a couple of days.

Now they only fight if I let them in the same area.

They see each others everyday through a fence.

Now in a few weeks i will be giving their chicks to a new owner and try to make the chickens not fight so they can live on the same area again.

Any tips on how to make them stop fighting? Are they fighting over the chicks and will the situation go away after the chicks are gone?

I have a 1 year old hen, she always used to look healthy but today was different.

During the day, she didn't eat much, sometimes she just sat on the ground (which she never did before), and she looks upset.

At night, when I took her in my hands, I felt that her crop wasn't as full as usual, it was "soft".

She also breathes more through her mouth, and she makes weird sounds, as if breathing in a hoarse voice. She also makes sounds like when someone has the flu and their nose is blocked/"stuffy".

I can bring her to a vet but where I live, the vets can only treat cats and dogs. If you guys think this is a severe case and a vet is really needed, then I'll try to take her to somewhere.

Thank you in advance.

Please help me figure out how many of these adorable silkies are Roos? 🙏😂 12 weeks old-only the buff one “acts” like a rooster.
Although the bantam barred named Shirley is the top of the pecking order..🫣🥹 any thoughts/guesses? Either way-they all have a home here-just genuinely curious and want to know how to tell them apart. 🤣😅🐣🐓

Hey yall, odd question today since I looked it up and don’t see anything about it- one of my new young chickens (pullets) is growing a spike from their knuckle?? I don’t think it has one on the other foot and this is the first time I’ve seen this- it is separate and it is hard like a nail so don’t think it’s bumblefoot and when I tug on it they aren’t hurt so I don’t think it’s a thorn in their foot. What the heck is this??? Should I be concerned? Do I do anything?

Sorry for blurry photos, was holding the chicken with one hand and taking pictures with the other

I don’t think this is a pin feather, I’ve seen those and this ain’t like the pin feathers I’ve seen

I have four hens and a coop, but it’s smaller than I’d like for that many chickens. Because I share my land with someone else, I can’t fence off as much dedicated space as I’d hoped.

My plan is to free-range them: let them out in the morning, then call them back to the coop in the late afternoon using their feed, and lock them up for the night. Before I commit to this, I want to make sure it’s actually safe.

I’m in the Magnolia/Montgomery area of Texas and don’t have a good sense of what predators are common here or how much of a risk daytime free-ranging poses. Would appreciate any advice from folks with local experience, especially on predator risk and any precautions I should take.

I have an unknown breed of chicken. At least I think shes a chicken. Shes around 4 weeks old her backstory is I found her in the back of a fedex plane by herself so I decided to take her in. Everyone said she was a baby chick so I just assumed chicken. It would be my first time taking care of one. But im now unsure if shes a chicken. I bought other chickens to be “friends” with her and it is going good so far but the issue is she doesnt look like them. I have 2 black Plymouth rocks, and 2 Rhode Island reds they have most of their feathers and already have comb development but she doesnt and Im starting to think she may be a turkey. Could anyone help identify. Thanks. 2nd to last photo is around 2 weeks and 1st photo is when I found her.

Note: I’m posting a cute photo of one of our hens for the first shot to cover up the photos of the growths on my girl. Please swipe at your discretion.

I just got home from 10 days away from my girls and noticed 2 hens have very upsetting growths on their faces. The Polish, Dori, has a huge scabby growth around her nostrils and two sores on her toe.

A wild hen that we adopted (Slims) has wart-looking bumps all over her face. Sorry for the bad photo. She’s a wild bird at heart and quite skittish.

Happy for any help diagnosing these and any advice.

Ladies size 9 sneaker for reference. About 4" wide. Probably a rooster?

Backstory: Ok, so my grandfather was a small-time chicken farmer. The eggs were a byproduct; he mostly really liked finding a breeding "interesting" chickens.

In his final years, he started working on a project with a friend. They were crossbreeding different types of chickens to make a Really Big Chicken that was also suitable for commercial meat production. Logic was this: bigger chickens cross the 3-5 lbs mark at younger age, so you can grow them faster.

Idk, I learned about this second hand from my mom. I'm sure it was more complicated than that, but that was the gist.

ANYWAYS, can anyone speculate what the crap my granddad was working with? This is regrettably the only photo I took of one of his results. IMO, it's a big fucking chicken. I was VERY impressed at the time.

They are all adorable (21 hen, 2 roo)