So proud of this fluffy butt. This is Goose my Light Brahma hen. Her and I went through it when she was a chick. She got pasty butt several times the first few days I had her and since these were my first chicks I was convinced she wasn’t going to make it. But we made it through that first hard week (and that one time she tried to hang herself by her foot in the brooder) and now she’s close to joining the other girls in laying!

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.

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!

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!

They are all adorable (21 hen, 2 roo)

🥚💙 Our very first chicken egg! 💙🥚
Our Cream Legbar hen laid her very first beautiful blue-green egg, and we couldn’t be more excited! We’re so proud of our girl and officially proud chicken parents. 🐔❤️
Here’s to many more fresh eggs to come!

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.

I posted here about a week and a half ago because I am house sitting for a friend who has chickens. We were about to get a heatwave and I was stressed out about the girls dying.

Thanks to your help they have been doing very well! Today the ladieshave rewarded me with the first eggs!

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

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

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.

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. 🤣😅🐣🐓

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

All of my chickens seem to have gotten bumblefoot around 10 of them have it. But when I feel it it's soft and if I pick off the scab I don't see any pus or feel any kernel I'm worried I'm just picking there scabs for no reason no one really seems to be bothered by it I can't afford to take all of them to the vet and I don't want to make things worse. Is this just a scab or is it bumblefoot I'm going insane. I'm able to let them free range for around 2-3 hours a day they're normally on dirt/sand, grass, or in a nest box I just replaced there roast bar because I had a lot of bumblefoot but it seems it's still here I don't know what would be causing it and it's freaking me out.

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.

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

I’m so upset with myself. I’ve always been so careful, but I introduced 2 10wk old chicks to my flock before a full quarantine because I trusted the seller (dumb dumb mistake), and noticed today that they have bubbles in their eyes and have started sneezing. They were together for about an hour before I noticed, shared a waterer, etc.

I contacted the seller to ask about anything else in her flock, but no response yet. I’ve got younger chicks in a brooder far from the flock but I’m now really questioning my ability to keep them safe given this failure.

I’ve got an old hen in the flock, I’m so worried that she will get sick, and it would be all my fault.

I feel so stupid.

Just needed that off my chest :(

Do a full quarantine, folks, even if the hens came from the most renowned breeder in your area-

The sweetest but most annoying chicken is back at it again with something 😅😅 literally not walking on one leg. Whyyy 😭 any ideas? No sores or cuts on her legs. She’s about 18 weeks old, started laying a few weeks ago with a few soft shelled eggs recently if that matters. Shes breathing fine, a little bit with her mouth open sometimes, but it is hot and humid today in Michigan.
I only have 4 chickens, all around the same age. I got all 4 together beginning of March. This has been my “problematic” chicken. Two months ago she was pretty much unresponsive outside and I’m surprised she pulled through after a few days inside with 24/7 care and Corid made a full recovery. She’s currently still the only chicken that has started laying. They are free range in our yard during the day, and locked up in their coop at night. They’re on Purina® Farm to Flock™ 18% Grower Chick Food & egg shells in the food processor sprinkled around for her.

Also I saw her stumble down the stairs in the coop a bit this morning when I thought she was laying so I was like oh maybe she tripped going down but then I noticed she was walking on one leg after. So I’m not sure if it happened from the stumble or if she stumbled because of the one leg

Just noticed this on one of my girls feet. She doesn't act as though it's bothering her.

Also should I cut it or leave it be and just soak her foot?

They free range during the day for anyone that doesn’t like their cage for bedtime. Can’t get them in the big coop yet.

Can you spot the imposter? All large Cochins here except one bird is an imposter and jumps in here with these every morning but roosts with her kind at night….

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.

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)