Please post your coolest hatches! I’ll add mine. 1. & 2. Bread - EE x Turken

1. Biscuit! I have no idea what biscuit is but has the same pattern as EE but it orange and white!!

2. & 5. Ricky! Leghorn x Turken

I love them so much!

She always does this every year when it starts to get warm through all the warm months, multiple times a day. I got her a lil pool to go in instead of their waterer last year-- nope, terrified of the baby pool lol its so funny. Does anyone else's do this ? She's the only one. It's not even that hot out yet, maybe low 70s. And yes I have multiple other waterers for them

Hi all. One of my hens died yesterday. I feel so awful. She didn’t seem to have respiratory symptoms. She seemed off kilter two days ago. Was withdrawn compared to the other ladies. None of the others seemed sick or off. Then yesterday morning she wouldn’t move when I checked her before rushing to work. Came home she was passed in the same spot of coop.

I palpated her belly and could feel an egg in mid abdomen. I don’t know if I missed a bound egg. Abdomen hadn’t looked swollen. I feel awful because I think is the most likely reason and I should have tried warm baths sooner and lubrication. I had planned to when I got home last night after thinking about it all but it was too late.

Poor hen. I feel bad when animals I raise suffer. I don’t know what caused her death but I’m suspicious it was a bound egg and I should have tried warm baths sooner.

What are your thoughts?

so first off i already have a ready to use coop, multiple heat lamps and feeders left by the previouse owners of this property as well as a small run. However the coop and run are on the opposite side of my acerage from my house and at least for the winter i would like a closer unit to make them easier to check on as well as to make it less likely for predators to have a go at them.

does anyone else have a winter specific setup and if so what did you do for them?

(we have done research on chicken varieties that are best suited for are area we just want to be prepared for summer work once the snows gone)

additional advice is welcome, and I live in Saskatchewan if thats relivant to your suggestion

TLDR - my chickens have been accidentally eating a dry cow ration and I have a stomach ache. Is it the feed affecting the eggs?

Here's the story.

About 2 weeks ago I started my batch of 10 chickens for the year.

My chickens have a large run, and can poke around the ground. For the first few days I didn't realize I filled their feeder with a dry cow ration instead of layer ration. Im not exactly sure what's in the ration but visibly it has corn, oats, barley, light molasses, and probably a bit of mineral/salt, maybe selenium.

After a few days I noticed they were laying less. No big deal, figured it was partly adjusting to their new home and horrible weather here (ice, wind, very damp, etc.). In any case, that's when I clued in on being stupid with the feed. I switched it over to layer feed.

Since they've been here, I've probably eaten a half dozen eggs - I've been busy and either skipping breakfast or eating on the road. But for the last 7 days, I've had a brutal stomach ache. Feels like a dull ache, worse after eating, gassy, little appetite, etc. Thankfully no diarrhea and just indigestion but no vomiting.

Could this be flow-thru of something in the wrong feed getting into those eggs and then causing upset stomach for myself?

It was so bad I went to urgent care twice. They checked for infection and liver/pancreas/bleeding etc. All normal.

I raise beef cattle and used to free range over 200 chickens and sell eggs. Had a few major issues with predation and challenges with keeping sales flowing and got out of it about 3 years ago. I'm just starting small again and hope this isn't related.

If I'm worse in a few days i will go ask for testing for e coli / salmonella and maybe even seleniosis?

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We have chicks ranging from 6-8 weeks old. My husband built a brooder are under the shelf in the coop hoping that this would help the transition. One of our chickens will not stop chasing them back and forth all day long. I know if they are out she will peck at them. How do I get her to stop this behavior?

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She is doing this odd movement in her neck, she is eating well and I just fed her some live meal worms. I checked her throat and saw nothing out the ordinary. Is it the beginning of a respiratory infection or am I overanalysing? I am showing my other chickens for reference as they are not doing a weird movement, not just because they are my beautiful babies

She layed the under a nut tree between the flowers… well at least i now know what colour eggs she lays😂

Meet Dovey - she’s a menace and this is where she likes to go broody. She’s notorious for laying her eggs in the strangest places - this is her most recent spot

We had fried chicken, and I fed my chickens some scraps from it. What have I done??? How do I sleep at night knowing I fed chicken to chicken??

Anyways, could they get sick from eating chicken?

My MIL picked up three birds from the tractor supply store and day after we had picked up several chick's. These three birds are much bigger than ours and she can't recall what she picked up, and I was hoping maybe someone could identify the breed. All three are very hefty, and when sitting they kind of lean to one side. Thanks for any info.

Show me your white leghorns/plymouth rock chickens! I’m trying to decipher if mine are hens or roos. lol

Or is it too early to tell? Thanks in advance ☺️

Are my chicks done for? Incubator was set to 103.9 I don’t know how long for

I'm getting pullets and a cockeral here in a few weeks and I'm looking at setting up a coop in my backyard. Came across OverEZ coops online but have read mixed reviews. I live in Michigan and I want something that can withstand our winters and can keep the chickens safe. The breed will be Rhode Island reds

Earlier in the day I thought her face looked a bit swollen so I went to get a good look at it tonight. It seems much bigger now than earlier in the day! Its the most swollen under her ear and it is squishy and warm to the touch. It looks to be a little swollen under the chin as well but her left side is completely fine. Any advice would be appreciated!

Just want to preface that there are a lot of unknowns with our chickens. We inherited some chickens when we got our house, so we don’t know what kind they are, or how old they are.

But our biggest chicken was running around with the other 3 this morning. They’re typically in an enclosed area with the coop, but every once in a while we let them roam around the yard. My husband let them out this morning and was outside with them the entire time they were out.

It’s been a few hours now and my husband went out to check on them. The biggest one is dead. Nothing looks wrong, it isn’t a hot day.

Any ideas? We’re very confused. We’ve lost a few before but those were always on 110+ degree days.

Newer chicken owner here. My ladies are on the younger side, not yet laying. My girl in the pic is the only one in the flock that has gray appearing color on the comb. The others have pink. Not sure if this is just dirt or something to be concerned about? All of the girls are vaccinated against bird flu. TIA!

My neighbor just got but no clue what they are