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[/IMG] We woke up to this today. Haven't dealt with it before. What do we do to help her? There is plenty of room for her to escape during the day. I think we need to open the coop doors earlier in the morning now that it's lighter earlier.

This is our second time with baby chicks. First time we had a separate room for the chicks but it is now occupied by my son. I had thought we were going to keep the chicks in the garage but I'm afraid they would get too cold at night even with a heat lamp. We currently have them in a Rubbermaid...

We have a 3+-year-old Barnevelder chicken. She is done molding for the year. She also recently lost her sister chicken to infection. A few weeks ago her behavior changed. She will not come down off the roost for long periods of time. She is not nesting so I do not believe she is Broody. We have...

Does this look like normal molt? These ladies haven't molted yet but all three are now. It's under wing, butts and chest.

Ok we have rats or mice and they are multiplying fast. We noticed our chicken feed being gobbled up faster than normal. My husband and I noticed small marks on the coop around entry points. We finally started to see them and they aren't too afraid of us. We just put out standard rat traps but...

We have a or possibly multiple mice getting in to the coop and eating the chicken food after dark. Any ideas on how to stop the madness?

We have 2 year old Barnevalders. One of them has been really puffed up and is making a constant awkward low pitch cluck. I have a video that I can send for the noise but can't upload. The following pictures are the best I could get. She laid an egg today so no egg binding. Thoughts?

Friends with chickens and vegetables: our chickens destroyed our yard over the winter. We have rocks and mulch and bark scattered all over the grass which will need to be completely redone. Do you have your chickens penned in to a separate part of your yard? We are going to create a specific...

This is the second time this week I've seen it. Everyone is eating and drinking fine. Energy levels are ok. Should I be concerned?

So we have 3 first year laying golden sex links. Over the course of the last few months we've found an egg once a week or every other in the droppings board broken. We thought it had been kicked out of the box and we had the beginnings of an egg eater. I thought we weren't getting out to let...

I got 3 gold sex link this spring. They just started laying two weeks ago. We were getting 3 eggs a day clockwork. Yesterday two did not lay. Today we got this one weird egg (pictured below) and I found my two Barnevalders eating at some liquid (assuming yolk) in the roost this morning before I...

I'm new to owning chickens. One of my Barnevalder has started losing feathers around her head/neck. Is this moulting or does it looks like mites/other disease. I see no noticeable black flecks or eggs around base of feather. She has stopped producing eggs. Her sister Barnevalder has not started...

We are new to raising backyard chickens. We recently moved to Bothell, WA (climate is on the cooler side). Our house came with two hens, about a year old. We bought 3 chicks in May who are now about 7 weeks old. We have been keeping them in our guest room inside, but I believe they are getting...