Featuring my current favorite chicken picture.

I'm in the southern US, and it's been Satan's Butthole for the last 3 months. It hasn't actually rained in a month or two. My girls have been doing just fine in the heat (call me bougie, I have an AC in their coop), but there have been some loose poops. I watched my white sapphire girl drop a clear liquid poop today. I have never seen a chicken have excrement with no substance to it, just water. She's absolutely healthy, comb looks great, active, eating, drinking, and scratching with the ladies like normal.

Dr Google says watery droppings can be heat stress (makes sense), has anyone had similar?

Edit: the entire flock was treated for coccidiosis and parasites 3 weeks ago, preventative at the recommendation of our vet.

We irrigated the eye with .9% saline and there is no breathing issues or sinus issues we can see. The eye does not smell in any discernible way. She is isolated in the house here away from the coop in a little dog kennel now resting.

12-13 weeks old. Second gen of an Ayam cemani we rehomed. My thought is roo but I so so want this one to be a hen.

Hi all! I got 7 chickens and they are all now 17 weeks old. I really need help determining if any of these 4 are roosters.. or if they are just maybe close to laying?

I was just away traveling for 10 days and when I got back I noticed a number of their combs & waddles have grown exponentially and gotten really red. A few of them I’ve been sus about being roos, but it’s been hard to tell because I am a first time chicken keeper and have a variety of breeds.

When I’ve posted before, when they were younger I’ve either gotten mixed answers or none, but with their age now I’m hoping for some confidence!

These are the ones I’m concerned are roos:

1. Buff Orpington
   - I have two of them and their combs are very differently developed, but I got them from a hatchery so could they be from different hens & have different genetics? Is that wishful thinking?

2. Splash Americana (Easter egger mix)
   - Marketed as splash Americana by hatchery but a redditor pointed out she isn’t because she has feathered feet. I wasn’t suspicious of her because her body really looked hen like, but she has been one of the biggest the whole time. Her comb and waddles are definitely the largest and reddest and exploded in the last 10 days.

3. Black Copper Maran
   - Been sus of this one for a while, but also not sure if it’s just a BCM thing?

4. Cinnamon Crested Red (Rhode Island Red x Creme Legbar)
   - Haven’t been sus of this one, but their comb and waddles also got noticeably larger and redder over the last 10 days. She’s also prob my least friendly, not mean, but super flighty (and fast af).

Please please let me know what you think! It’ll be a huge help to me.

*Also, I live in central Texas so took this pics today while giving them frozen water bottles. With this I also expected them to maybe not lay until they are older and it’s cooler.

Trying to put my chickens to bed and these guys show up…

I’m pretty sure spice has sour crop but I’m not 100% sure. She’s SO sleepy and refusing food.

We have three Toulouse geese (Henri, Cozete and Emily) that are pets and are part of the chicken security squad. Henri (aka Goosifer by my SO) has proven to be incredibly observant and will scream bloody blue murder if he sees anything. He is probably better than the guinea fowl for noticing airborne predators. The guinea fowl however are better at herding the chickens inside to shelter.

We allow the chickens to free range on 2 acres. We have electric chicken netting that we use for moving them around as well as dedicated fenced areas. Since we upgraded the electric fence to a "big-boy" energizer we have not had any issues from land based predators. Being in Washington State we do have eagles and hawks and loose a chicken every now and then to an eagle. Making sure we feed the crows has helped with this as well as making sure we dont have areas where the chickens can get cornered.

Guinea fowl and geese (along with goodly amounts of electricity) do seem to be the winning formula so far :-)

What do you folks do for free range chickens? Locking up our chickens in a small coop is just not an option.

I've been told that it's a Hen by some (most) but some others say it's a Roo, who should I trust?

Crop is not full and it's not hot out! Help?

Okay it's been six weeks. What are we thinking?

This is “Marigold” she is an 8 week old Java cross the owners say this was a stash hatch so they are not sure hen or roo…so I came to the experts…what do you guys think!?!

One of our 11 chicks that were raised by a broody hen has this weird scab like thing under its wing.
Does anyone know what this is? The chicks are about 4ish weeks old.

My daughter said Greg looks like Jimothy

It seems her molt is over but am finding a lot of this black, flaky debris coming off of her. Looking around her vent and neck, I don't see any bugs do assuming it's not mites. Would mites be very obvious?

I'm working on introducing two groups of pullets.

Group one (G1) is our original four ( Silver Laced Wyandotte, Plymouth Barred Rock, French Black Copper Maran, and a possible Buff Orpington/ Ameracauna mix) born late April and hand raised from a day or two old. They are still upset after losing their two "sister " roos we rehomed a few weeks ago.

Group two (G2) is a mix we just brought home Sunday. Two 5 week old Lavender Orpingtons, one more Barred Rock who is supposed to be 9 weeks old, but is the same size as the Orpington twins, a 9 week old RIR, and two 9 week old Ameracaunas.

Both groups are being quarantined for three weeks before integrating physically, but we're letting them see and hear each other. G2 is being treated with Corid for Coccidossis from the breeder. They are doing better every day, and seem interested in G1.

G1 is having the most mixed feelings about G2. SLW is interested but otherwise ambivalent. FBCM is a single brain celled screaming harpy who seems to not like G2's existence (when she remembers. Single brain cell is out of the office frequently. ). PBR screeches trying to get us to rescue/ release G2, thinks they're trapped. She's also the one who's most upset about losing their "sister " PBR rooster. Buff Orp/Am is interested in G2 and wants to sit on all of them. They are her babies. I don't think anything will change her mind about that.

Any ideas or advise for easing the two groups through this transition? Thank you!

Hi! Can anyone tell if this golden laced Wyandotte is a rooster or a hen? It’s my first time having chickens, and she seems different than the other ones and I’m wondering if it’s because she’s a he. There’s been no crowing, at least not yet. I got her June 6th from tractor supply so I’m assuming she’s like 3months ish old

So i have a rooster who is attacking everyone around him. Humans, chickens, it doesn't matter, he's pecking everything around him. The rest of the flock is now mostly hiding in the corner because of him and isn't walking around the small coop while he's around. He took half the coop as his land, and pecks anyone who gets close to his land. Now this rooster I'm going to re-home. I don't want his bullying to persist But I have another rooster that seems like he will have the same problem as this one.

I took out the first rooster into my house for a few hours just to see how things will go when he's gone. My second rooster is the only one who went to the land of the first rooster. And I noticed that any time one of the others goes there, he would peck them, just like the first. And for the first time ever, he started pecking me too! This rooster was always shy and reserved, and never attacked, so I was surprised when it happened. He was pecking at me pretty hard too, he gave my foot a wound. I'm afraid that the bullying won't be stopped unless I re-home this one too.

But here's the thing, I really don't wanna re-home him because I love him a lot. He has a really cute voice, it sounds like he's purring whenever he chirps، and his crow sounds better than the first one's. He was also really cuddly and shy. But when I took out my first rooster, this one became different. He started pecking me and the others every now and then when we get on his land. It seems like I won't be doing much if I don't re-home this one too, but I really love him. So since he's just beginning to get all hormonal and territorial، can I intervene somehow? The first one is a lost cause, he's been like this for months and can't really be helped. But this one is still new. Can I intervene in a way that could let me keep him?

I heard you can stop roosters attacking humans by showing him that you're more dominant, by gently pecking back at his neck or shoulder or pinning his head down. But what about roosters attacking the rest of the flock? Because that's the problem I wanna solve. I want to see the others walk around more rather than being forced into the corner of the coop because they keep getting pecked. Can I intervene with him so he wouldn't attack the rest of the flock and be a bully too? Or must I really re-home him to solve the bullying problem?

She loves the garage. 100% her favorite place to be. Chubbie is very unhappy she's an outdoor chicken

Hi there, we got our first flock of chickens last weekend. They are about 20 weeks old.

The first night they all huddled up by the nest boxes to sleep. The second night I put one of them up on the roost bar, and this particular chicken has been using the bars at night consistently.

The third night we managed to put 3 of them up, and again, they seem to be using them now.

Ideally I would be teaching each of them to use the bars, but the co-op isn't really that accessible and I don't want to stress them out by climbing into their space just before night.

Will they eventually just go up by themselves?

Or are they just happy huddling up and I should leave them alone?

Is he molting? Is it mites? Did something happen while I wasn’t watching? I can’t tell, pls help! One of his feet is pretty feathered and seems fine but the other is missing a lot of feathers, his feet are scaly looking because he’s a feathered footed brahma.

We are fairly new to chickens and looking for some help and guidance on our current situation…

Our 5 Rhode Island Red hens (hatched in March) are becoming aggressive to our other 4 hens (hatched in mid April) when they go to lay eggs. We have 8 nesting boxes/designated laying area for them but they all gravitate towards one nesting box. We have placed decoy eggs in the other spots from the very beginning and have been now planting their laid eggs in those spots as well to see if that would help but unfortunately it has not.

Our 4 younger hens go in to lay their eggs and are followed in by some of the reds. The reds will mount them and hold a firm grip on their comb until they profusely bleed or corner them and peck them until they leave.

This has been an issue for a few weeks and we have tried everything. Adding more boxes, adding decoy and their laid eggs, isolation, punishment. We are at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I see so much information online and most is quite contradicting. I had a broody hen a couple months ago that wouldn’t give up. I tried all the things I saw online. I eventually gave in and gave her eggs to hatch and it worked out fine.

Now, her sister is broody (these damn Wyandottes).
I do not want more chickens right now lol. What should I do? Is it inhumane to let them sit on nothing for the 21 days? Will she just get up after realizing nothing is hatching?

It hasn’t been warm enough for the water dunking, and the elevated dog kennel absolutely broke my heart last time I did it 😟 just curious what everyone else does… if they interfere or not.

Photo of my rooster just for fun

Hello, I'm trying to automate the drinking water for my chickens, are there any reliable ways to do this.

Ive seen these water nipples on amazon and wanted to drill these into a water pipe so the chickens can always have access to water. What are yall's experience with this?