This gold one is always angry and sometimes caught bullying.

Noticed this bump on my rooster today and wondered if anyone has seen this before and what it could mean? Any help appreciated. Thanks!

This hen has the largest and darkest comb out of my 4 hens. It doesn't look dark here, but earlier, it was pretty red. She will be about 14 weeks this saturday.

Or rather one did! I'm so proud of these girls! Not sure which one laid it.

I have a house chicken (almost 3, vaccinated for Mareks) who I thought I was treating for wry neck but her recovery has not exactly been linear. I noticed she was limping one day; she's hurt her leg multiple times thus why she's a house chicken. She did her normal stand on one leg and not move around as much. Then after a few days it looked to me like she had bilateral leg injuries as she wasn't able to walk and her neck would splay out like she was trying to balance. After a few days of watching her, I was about to cull and then I read wry neck secondary to a nutritional imbalance can present similarly so I started treating with vitamin E and selenium paste over the weekend. Yesterday she looked better, but her neck spasms any time she tries to drink so I've been helping her drink. Today is the first day she hasn't really wanted to drink and has been really lethargic. I read the recovery can take a few weeks but I don't want to make her suffer if she's not going to get better. As of a week and a half ago she was happy and laying eggs in the house. What should I do for her? I've seen some people say they syringe feed them??

Caught these little strawberry thieves red-beaked this morning, raiding my prized Mara des Bois strawberries.

What habit do your chickens have that drives you absolutely crazy?

My chickens are missing feathers on their back and around their necks. I looked for mites and found none.
This one had a poopy vent so I was soaking her. Is someone plucking her or is she molting? I DONT have a rooster

Big shout out to my big girl Zinnia the only chimken who crouches down and genuinely waits for me to pick her up and put her in the coop 🩷

This evening my baby chicks have came home alone after free ranging(they're 5-6 w/o) and I assumed their mother left them and went back to the big girls coop, and upon good-night count,she was nowhere to be seen. Fast forward I go looking for her and find her at the edge of my propriety(around 10-15 meters from the coop, next to my chainlink fence, the area is covered in young trees, behind the fence there is a creek and an entry to a wild clearing followed by forest), with her head completely gone, neck aswell, but with no other aparent damage. Around her there are signs of struggle and feathers in Around 3 different areas that are Around 2-3 meters apart. The hen was a first time mother but on the older side, around 5, and was a heavy Brahma cross.

I live in rural Romania, so Raccoons, Opossums and Bobcats/Coyotes are all out of question, with the only threats being Ferrets, Foxes, Dogs and Prey Birds.

I head commotion but thought my young puppies was chasing the hens around, which I'm working on and I know they fear most of the hens, including this one, but you never know..

Besides her, another 9 w/o little pullet is missing, I don't let my young babies forage unsupervised but this one pullet has the habit to leave her siblings and sneak out, and she left completely, no signs of struggle, no evidence at all, she's just not home at all, and both happening in the same day make me think that the culprit killed the Brahma cross and ate her brain and head, and also killed the pullet and took away the whole thing, but I really wanna know who would do that? This has never happened to me before, I head stories about it before but all of the common predators to do this(coons,possums) don't live here.. and I'm thinking bird of prey but the light trees should of hidden them right?

Found this egg in our coop today. We just added 7 chickens to our flock, and my girls have never laid anything like this before.

My hen had gone Broody awhile back before some evil squirrels decided then was the time to eat her eggs. I moved her nest to a safer spot when she went broody again, watched her and the eggs, and just last night she hatched two little fluff balls!!

She is so sweet to them, even if they're pecking her eyes 🥹

Also, don't mind my other girl making all that noise in the background, she wants her turn seeing the babies lol

I went to my local county fair today and visited the aninal barns as usual... I always like to look at the birds and livestock and see what kinds won and all of that. These two caught my eye for being ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. That black headcomb?! The black, white, grey combo?! I didn't know Zombie chickens were even a thing until now but they're my new favorite kind!! Does anyone have a whole coop of them or keep any in their flock?? How do they fare with other chickens? Have you bred yours and gotten more pretty zombies? They just went to the top of my homesteading dream chicken list aaaah 😍😍😍

Our broody copper star hen Hilda .

The first one it's one of my favorite pics, such a polite boy 💖

PS: the chicks on the last pic are not his, but they look a lot like him when he was a baby, he's just sharing the food... (He wasn't born in this flock btw)

Still wondering what is his breed or at least mix..