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The hens are in a coop with multiple rooms. There are roosters outside (we have doors and windows open to the outside, hens stay in the outside roosters will come up to the windows and doors and talk with the hens) and roosters in another room adjacent to where my layers are that the layers...

If you artificially light the coop they won’t molt, egg production continues, etc. we HAVE lots of roosters but none in with them. I believe that @rachelsflock made an excellent suggestion. I knew it was something that happened, but I didn’t think about it. I have placed a rooster in with the...

I’ll have to give it a try. I have some silkies that I breed for specialty meat and I have an overabundance if older roosters. Hopefully they’re aggressive enough to fix the problem!

We do no have Roosters in the coop, but they can see roosters and hear roosters.

So we have a bunch of girls that are missing tons of feathers. They are missing a lot of them on the backs of their heads and on their backs just above their tails. (See pictures) They looked awesome all winter. I let them molt this year. This started maybe 2 weeks ago. Tonight we had a dead...

My husband is a veterinarian and will take some Corid down for her in the next hour or so. We couldn't get a hold of him until the last few minutes (also his specialty is dairy cattle not chickens...so anything chicken related he has to do some research, I thought maybe the internet could pull...

They just sometimes stop out and care for them while we are at work because they enjoy them. Our farm is not our primary residence, someone is there every day regardless. All of the members of our family is very capable of administering care to animals.

My in-laws went and checked on our hens today and they called me and told me we have an extremely lethargic Rhode Island Red. She is under a year old. She was fine when I saw her last (2 days ago). They said that she was laying on the floor with her eyes closed, so they went over to her and...