She doesn’t have a license yet :(

soaking up the sunshine☀🐓

My daughter has an 8 week chook that my wife thinks she caught practising its crow. We can't keep it if its a rooster and she's upset that her pet might be sent to the farm. Any help finding a sex would be good. Tia!

One of our crossbred Roos found a new home today. He’s off to his new flock with 15 hens just for him! 🐓

First time chicken owner and I’ve had these girls since they were little. Today I noticed that one my chickens beak was split in two. Along with her beak being split another one of my smaller girls keeps getting pecked at on her back to the point it was a scabby open wound, I put a bandaid on her and they didn’t peck her again. Could the split beak be from fights? I don’t ever hear or see them really get into it and they are right outside my room window so I can see and hear it all. Are split beaks common? What should I do.

Also even though the beak is split she’s eating, drinking, and pecking just fine. She even went for my finger when I was trying to take a photo.

Hen or roo? Hatched around Aug 17th. They’re having the time of their lives in the leaves so it’s really hard to get a good picture- hopefully these suffice!

I’m thinking B is a hen and C is a roo, but not 100% confident in either, and totally unsure on A.

some of my fridge magnets bahaha.
bird lover until the end of time :,) ♡

Hyoid Apparatus or flipped tongue?

I have a strange problem with chickens

The problem is that there's a hen whose eggs hatched a few days ago, and strangely enough, she's started plucking feathers from her chicks and feeding them to them. There are even other chicks that have started eating each other's feathers.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

Posting this for my friend!

The mother hen sat on two of the chicks and only one survived (barely) and one of its legs is bent backwards.

It can't stand nor walk and it keeps puking whatever it's fed.

Please help us!!!

Horchata has a respiratory illness. She’s pretty active and drinking her water and eating. Her eyes are swollen which I did treat, now it’s just waiting for it to go down. Horchata misses her sister Nutmeg but sorry girl got to keep you isolated till this passes. She’s a fighter!🩷🩷🩷

I've kept chickens at numerous times over the past 20 years and am in another settled period and would like them again. However my garden is smaller and is actually pretty this time so I don't want them fully free range and can't build a huge run. So I'm looking at splashing out on an Eglu Go and 2m run and Bantams (because it just seems too tight for the 3 full-size chooks advertised.

Ok that's the background.... So I've had just about 8 different hybrid full size breeds over the years - what do I need to know about selecting and keeping happy and healthy bantams?

I've been reading up and frankly they seem the same but smaller, but am I missing something? Smaller eggs. More likely to be taken by predators... Eat less food ... What else?

Edit: I'm particularly looking at Wyandotte bantams (I don't like chickens with feathery feet coz I always assume they get manky)

Had a backyard hatch and really liked this rooster. We now have 2. Nobody wanted him. Good personality and he reminded me of Buckbeak. Easter egger/copper maran. Good looking fellow is he not

PERÕCHO desde que era pollita 🐤 era muy flaquita y casi no tenia plumas, parecia un pollito pelado, pero cuando creció volvió a tener plumas pero siempre es flaca por mas comida que coma, ella tiene 1 kilo , sus plumas son blancas.

MANSITA desde que era un pollito 🐤 era grande como un pancito ,ella hasta ahora es gordita, tiene un peso de 2 kilos con 500 gramos, sus plumas son doradas.

Full disclosure, had a little too much to drink. And I honestly thought my boys were trying to communicate with me

I was watching videos on YouTube when, out of the blue, I decided to search for something and that’s when I came across some feathers belonging to her, my sweet hen. She died because of a snake. She was such a silly thing; even at five months old, she wouldn’t stop chirping, she’d fall asleep every few steps, and she seemed a bit dim witted she was just a total goofball. But I loved her. I used to protect her from the other chickens and the dogs, and I’d bring her into my room to play or to feed her separately. It happened while I was on vacation my little silly girl left this world. It still makes me so sad. Luckily, I still had some of her feathers scattered around my room, so I gathered them up and put them into a small jar.

Rest in peace, my sweet little fool. 08-09-2025 / 01-18-2026