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I just read this thread after searching for "hernia." I"m so sorry about your hen. The vet says ours has a hernia as well, and it looks just like yours, and seems to be getting a bit bigger. She has been acting perfectly happy until this morning, when she was kind of lethargic and less...

My hen has a hernia as well. I don't think it has to do with the feed; we actually think she was born with it. She only lays 1 or 2 eggs a week. Up until today, she seemed to be doing perfectly fine. This morning, though, she was lethargic and not as enthusiastic about food as usual. She...

Hmmm..she doesn't have any symptoms of being eggbound (again based on what I have read here on the forums)....perfectly energetic, eating fine. FWIW, my partner says she had a huge poop today, and she appears to be in the nest box tonight, rather than on the roost. Both signs I read...

My Rhode Island Red seems to have stopped laying all together. At first I didn't realize it, because I only have 3 hens, and the Barred Rock, who is younger, also lays brown eggs. I noticed that I only got one brown egg a day, but I just assumed the Rock was not "up to speed." But now that...

Quote: Ha! Yes, one of my friends noted that getting chicks seems to have coincided with the impending empty nest!

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I first got my chickens last June...almost a year now! This is my first time keeping chickens. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? and (3) What breeds do you have? I have 3: Sarah (RIR), Bessie (Barred Rock), and...

My barred rock has the same problem. We had good luck with a blow dryer!