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Hi everybody, I had a flock of three, but something has killed two of my birds. Whatever it was tore holes in my coop to get to them. I don't have the know-how or money to fix my coop and make it saf . Plus health problems have been making it harder to do things like clean the coop. So I'd...

Hi all, About two months ago, one of my chickens started limping badly on her left foot and didn't want to move at all. There was no sign of injury or bumblefoot. I searched online for possible causes and ruled out being eggbound. I thought maybe she had a stroke based on what I read on this...

I've had my chickens five years, and we've always had rat problems. But in the last couple of months, the rats are eating so much food that I'm going through twice as much feed. They come out early in the day and empty the feeder by the afternoon. We aren't keen on trying to poison the rats...

Here's Toast Princess, in the All other breeds category. This is the worst she's ever personally looked.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1096655/the-time-i-tried-to-train-my-chickens-to-be-pokemon 7/01/2016 4:00 pm

There's chicken pokemon, and my chickens are super cute and smart, just like pokemon, so I figured I'd try a training session. Our first hurdle was the fact that they wouldn't get in the pokeball. So we tried our first battle. But a flying pokemon was too intimidating to them...

Thank you for the feedback! Today I looked her over carefully, and couldn't see any signs of mites or lice. She was still laying eggs as of a few days ago (since all four of them laid that day). Of all the chickens, she lays the most. Like nine out of ten days she lays an egg. I worry...

Hi everyone, My 18 month old red star has always looked a little ratty. She's at the bottom of the pecking order of four chickens, so she gets picked on. But they have a lot of space (100+ square feet normally, plus they get to explore a 2000 square foot yard when the weather is good). It...

One of my girls definitely has bumblefoot and went to the vet yesterday. I check all their feet regularly, but missed the fact that another one of my chickens (a barred rock) had round black scabs on her toes (instead of where I expected the scabs to be). I washed her feet and cleaned the scab...

Actually, we have a big enough garage that's going to be empty for a few days, so we can put them in there! We had been thinking of doing that anyway (we don't know what the larger predator situation in that area is yet). Now we just have to figure out if we can dismantle the coop to move...

We're moving in a few days, and due to unforeseen circumstances, we may not have a coop for a couple nights (we thought we could move their coop, but it's much heavier than we thought, and we don't have the man power we thought we'd have either). They are mostly free range, but have an 4 x 8...

Hi all. One of my girls cut/scraped her legs while she was free ranging today. Here's a picture after I had her soak her feet in some warm water for a bit to get the mud off: I washed the injuries off and applied neosporin, then bandaged them. So far, neither she nor the other chickens...

We get these tiny black ants all over our garden and yard, but we don't mind them. They don't bite, they don't get in the house, and they don't bug our plants. But now they're all over the chicken coop, in the pine shavings and crawling on the walls. The girls eat some of them, but not many...

Hi all. Along with learning about raising chickens, I'm also learning about gardening (I recently moved into my grandpa' sold house which is on some farm land). I had only ever grown plants in containers on my apartment patio before now. We had an old willow tree that had to be taken down...

Here are my first two babies! We totally changed what breeds we wanted to get after I read a bunch more stuff on here. The first two are a banded rook and buff orpington. next week we plan to get a gold and a black sexlink. These two are doing well so far. The orpington (named Princess...