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Hello everyone, this morning my beautiful Easter egger died. She was 3 years old and very healthy up until recently. So another chicken in our flock was ill about a month ago, became very lethargic, wings dragging and very pale comb and waddle. We brought her in and gave her electrolyte water...

I noticed a couple of days ago that one of our chickens has leg mites. Her leg scales began to flake up and her legs became slightly yellow in color. I've cleaned out all the bedding in the coop, took apart the nesting boxes and hosed them off, sprinkled DE around and sprayed every crevice I...

Ok Roo or hen???? He/she is 3 weeks old, hatched by my buff. I'm not really sure what the bread is, the egg was given to me by someone else. I'm curious to find our what everyone thinks. Last time I posted a baby pic everyone was right.

Ok so I have a broody hen that's been sitting on fertile eggs. I also have other chickens that insist on laying in the box with my broody hen. So it's day 19 and I picked up my broody hen to collect the infertile eggs under her and noticed a pip!!! I can see the baby moving inside so it...

I have a jersey giant that is about 26 weeks, I'm pretty sure she has layed two eggs to date. Last Sunday our family went out for the entire day and she somehow got out of the yard and was without her food or water for I don't know how long. It was a very hot day, Temps over 100. She has not...

Hi, I have a flock of 7 birds, 2 of my birds are a little over a year old and the remaining 5 are about 5 months. One of the older chickens gets along really well with the chicks, no problems there. My other one, the buff, has picked on them from day 1. Initially I thought they just need some...

I have 5, 8 week old chicks and just 2 older hens. The more dominant hen is broody right now so I thought, hey great time to introduce the chicks. I've been bringing the babies outside for about an hour a day for the last week. I'm letting the older hen get just a little closer each day, no...

I have 7 week chicks who are completely feathered but obviously still very small in comparison to my older hens. So right now I only have 2 hens, the more dominant hen is broody right now and the other one is just hanging by herself. The one who is not broody just lost her friend last week(hit...

Hello, my name is Christine. Last year my kids had this crazy idea to get some baby chicks from our local feed store. Well that was it, we absolutely love our chickens, in fact we just added 5 more to our small flocks. I'm looking forward to being a part of this community and will have lots of...