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Yesterday she was laying around most of the day, but still alert and would move if I went near her or anything. Today she is scratching and walking around. There is plenty of cold water and room, there is also a lot of shade. She is not acting hot. Her comb and face are extremely pale. You can...

Is it normal for chickens to loose weight when the heat gets bad? This will be the girls first summer, and they seem to all have lost a bit of weight. We are in FL and it has been in the 90s for the past few weeks. They are in the shade, get a cool treat, they now have electrolytes in their...

So I got chickens back in August, my friend thought they were cool, said her uncle used to have chickens, and she wanted some when she moved...well she moved and got herself some ducks and chickens... I don't know anything about ducks, but know a little about chickens, and it just breaks my...

One of our girls got a hold on a piece of duct tape, Very thin in width about 4-6 inches long. We tried to grab her before she ate it but we weren't quick enough. What do we do?!?!?! edited to add:: the tape is probably not sticky at all, she found it in the sand.

Two of our girls have what we think is bumblefoot. There is the black dot and very little swelling. One of our girls has it on both feet and the one in the picture only has it on the one foot. My fiance and I have been reading all evening and he has been watching videos on doing the "surgery" to...

We have an americana and some EE. The americana has the big puffy face. one of the other girls Princess keeps pulling out the puffy feathers on her neck and the americana (Peckers) is letter her! She will stand there and not move, look straight up in the air and let Princess pull out the...

This is a silly question.... I know chickens can handle some pretty low temperatures without problems....but we live in Florida. The coldest it has gotten this year is low 40's. Tomorrow night it is supposed to get down into the 30s and we will have freeze/frost. Our chickens are not used to...

One of our chickens is really thin, but she has always been smaller. Yesterday she was sitting in the corner in the dirt. Today when we let her out she was standing with her feathers puffed out and her head now and now she is back in the dirt just sitting there. We are going to separate her and...

We got four chickens back in August, three of them started laying about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and started squatting a week prior. The fourth girl is not yet squatting or laying. Any ideas why she wouldn't be laying? Also - we are feeding a mixture of layer feed and grower finisher just mixing it...

We have a free range chicken who sleeps on the porch on a basket (she roosts on the handle of the basket) and her nesting box is near where she sleeps. She only goes into her nesting box when she is going to lay an egg then sits there for a little while and jumps out and goes on about her day...

When we got our chickens (EE) when they were a week old, we played with them, loved on them, gave them treats. They loved us, would let us walk around holding them and eat out of our hands. Now they are about 21 weeks old and will not let us touch them. They have a big pen and a big coop...

We have four chickens they are 17 weeks, and one chicken who is 7 months. The older one is free range, but we would really like to get her to sleep in the coop at night rather then on the porch. We have tried a few times to put her in with the other four and does fine until she see's the food...

We bought DE a few weeks ago (YES we did get the food grade DE) :), we have four chickens. We have been putting it down on the ground for them for while they are taking their dust baths but I know you can use it in multiple ways, but I am just not sure which is the best way to use it. The ground...

We have four 11 week old EE. They are in a coop large enough for them, i'm not sure of the exact measurements (my boyfriend built it) but it is definitely big enough. It seems like there are a lot of feathers inside of the coop/run. I watched one clean herself and it looked like she pulled a...

All of our chicks are 10 weeks old and peckers is the only one that looks different, I am hoping she is just going to be unique! These are some of the pictures I took of Peckers, if you need a different view let me know I have a bunch more! Roo or Pullet? :) She is the same...

We recently started building our coop (its not fully finished yet) it has been raining on and off for the last week and a half, the floor inside is getting pretty wet, it gets flooded during the end of the night and this morning when we put them down I noticed the ground was still squishy, is...

We have four 9 week old chickens who have been raised together since day one, we also have another chicken who is probably 20-25 weeks old who is laying. As of right now the older chicken just runs around the yard and does her own thing but she will go to the side of the coop the babies are in...

we have four babies they will be 5 weeks old tomorrow, at night they stay inside in their brooder box and EVERY morning they have spilt their water and it is everywhere! The waterer is never knocked over so im not sure how they are doing it, it doesn't leak, we use the same waterer in their...

Hi, i'm am wondering how long an egg can stay outside in a hot temperature before it is no longer okay to eat? We live in FL it's very hot here, right now its probably 90 with a "feels like" temperature of 106, our chicken almost always lays eggs around noon when everyone is working, someone is...

I went out to check on the chicks in their outside daytime play pen and I noticed on of them has a black beak, I looked back at older pictures of her (she is only 4 weeks old so its last weeks picture lol!) and it was black then to, but not nearly as black. Is this just part of the growing...