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Hi, I have a very stubborn broody hen. She's an easter egger and isn't a year old yet, but has decided that she is going to lay imaginary eggs on the nesting box. I caught her her first day doing it (I only have 4 chickens so it's pretty easy to catch different behavior!) and immediately...

Hi, I have two easter eggers that I bought last August. The owner felt sure that the girls would both start laying by fall, and assumed they were 10-12 weeks when purchased. However, neither have started yet, and they're nearing 40 weeks! It seems like a really long time to me, but I've no...

I have a 2 1/2 year old red sex link who has always laid rather large and interesting shaped eggs. She has been a good layer until this spring. Her egg laying has become more sporadic-every other day to every three days, and the eggs have been soft, hard, bumpy, and sometimes all three at once...

wonder if anyone can help-- I have a one year old hen going through the world's longest molt. She has been slowly losing feathers for at least 6 months now. She has had a thumb-sized bald patch on the side of her neck for the past few months, and now has a similar-sized one on the other...

Hi all, I have 3 hens who are just over a year old. They went through a big molt in december/jan/feb, and lost lots of feathers, stopped laying, were generally ornery, etc. Two of the three have bounced back really nicely. However, the leader of the pack, still has a lot of bald spots...

Hi, I have 3 chickens, all of whom will be 1 yr old in March. We're in Canada and to say it's been cold, even for us, would be an understatement! We've had so much snow and freezing temperatures, it's been a little frustrating! But through it all, my hens have been laying faithfully daily...

didn't want to post this in the emergencies forum, since I don't think it's really an "emergency"... my three, ordinarily VERY tidy chickens, have over the past few weeks, developed very poopy undersides. Their poop is normal, no diarrhea or anything, but I'm a bit concerned. Of course...

I have 3 hens. Two have fairly large combs. Today I noticed that both girls with larger combs have small patchy marks (a sort of light swollen area with some dark marks) toward the back of their combs. It looks the same as the little wounds they get when they're out foraging in the summer, but...

This might be a dumb question but as a new chicken owner approaching my first winter with the girls I find myself with all these random questions that I can't always find answers for (maybe because they're so obvious no one would ever actually ask them!) my question is: how do chickens get...

Hi all, My husband recently added an addition to our coop, adding a few feet to it in order to make our 3 hens a little more comfortable this winter. He made the overall structure into a 6x4 box. The addition involved moving the nesting box from its original location to the end wall(same...

I have 3 chickens who free range most of the day. In their coop they have a 1 gall waterer that I fill every day. The thing is, it never really looks like any water is being drunk. I've left it for a few days as a test but it still hovers at relatively the same spot. Since they're free ranged...

Hi all, I have 3 red star chickens--about 22 weeks now. All three have been laying for the past few weeks. Yesterday, I only got two eggs. I wasn't too worried as I had read somewhere that chickens lays on average every 25 hours or so. Today, though, same thing, only two eggs! Now, all...

hi all, I've had three red star chickens now for 6 weeks or so. I kept them in their henhouse, as I read in other threads for a week before letting them have roam of my backyard. Up until last week, they had faithfully returned to their house, every night at dusk. Last week, however, they...

Hi all, I have 3 young chickens and would like to have them free range in my backyard. However, I am also an avid gardner and love my ornamental gardens. I've done lots of reading about making the two compatible, but I can't seem to find a clear answer on just how much damage 3 chickens can...

Hi all, I'm a first timer and have recently been gifted three, two month old red sex links. I've had them now for over a week, and although I give them full time access to the pop door to the run, only one has ever come down the ramp, and I think it was by accident, because she's never made...

Hi all, I have recently adopted three 2 month old chickens. The girls had been raised on a farm and had only been exposed to big hanging waterers, not nipples. Based on some other info I read, I got a small pet waterer (the kind that hangs on the wall, and has a spout with metal ball) for...

Hi all, Hope someone can help. I just became the proud owner of three 2 month old red star chickens. They've been all huddled up inside the coop for 36 hours or so. I've left the pop door open so they can access the run. I have a waterer in the run and a small pet waterer in the coop (the...

Hi all, I'm new to all this chicken stuff and am about to embark on a pretty exciting journey, complete with two hens, one 2 year old little girl, a very nosy dog, and a particularly handy husband (who will be doing most of the grunt building work). I've read so much about chicken care that I...