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I took in 7 Cornish crosses who were the unwilling participants in a kindergarten hatching project. I have forever homes lined up for them, but only if they are hens, not roosters. At 7 weeks old they have all their feathers and are the size of my Longhorn cross. Two of the pullets have tiny...

In June I took in 7 "broiler" chicks that were the unwilling participants in a kindergarten hatching project. I had a forever home lined up willing to take all seven, but it fell through. The poults are now 9 weeks old and I'm pretty sure that at least one is male, with three other possible...

On Monday I noticed that my 3 year old Leghorn mix(?), ex-battery hen's back end was down - not penguin posed, but holding lower than her back. Feeling around her bottom I could feel an egg near her vent. I feared she may be egg bound, so I brought her inside and gave her a warm bath and gently...

Advice, please. A neighbour girl bought two chicks at last Sunday's Fall Fair. She was keeping them in a taco box in her bedroom until she realized yesterday that they might need more. So, I have 2 one week old chicks in a dog crate under a heat lamp in my hallway. I also have 4 three year old...

I have a 2 year old ex-battery hen. She is, I believe, a White Leghorn. We've had her for a year. She is a free running hen and is fed a high quality feed, food scraps, and whatever bugs and plants she enjoys from the gardens. For the last month her eggs have had thinner and thinner shells...

In May I rescued 6 ex-battery hens (one since passed away). My dh built them a really nice coop (approx 5wx8lx4h). It's an insulated, draft-free coop with glass pane windows, perches, three nesting boxes and some floor space covered in shavings to walk around on. It has no ventilation holes, but...

We have 6 rescued spent hens. They have been through a lot and their bodies and minds are finally starting to heal from their lives in battery cages. Some of them are really really thin and I was wondering if there were certain foods I could feed them to put a bit of weight on their bodies. We...

We have 6 rescued "spent" hens. Two have turned orange. Their legs are orange, their faces are bright orange and their eyes are spooky orange. Why oh why is this happening?? Someone suggested that it's the layer mash that they are currently being fed, which has corn in it. However, they eat a...

I was looking through a thread that I can no longer find about either jaundice, twisted neck, pneumonia or something like that and there was a link to a chart showing diseases (aspergillosis and Newcastle's Disease to name two) and symptoms. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Trying to...

We rescued 6 hens almost two weeks ago. I am pretty sure that one has gapeworm and the others (looking at their stools) have some kind of worm as well. I went to the feed store and they had never heard of gapeworm and offered a de-wormer for roundworm and nodeworms (?). The hen is (obviously)...

Hello. My name is Loraine and a week ago my family rescued 6 battery hens. We were told they are about 12-14 months old. They were very badly bruised and smelled horrible! We spent a lot of time lurking around this site before getting the chickens and have built them a really nice coop using...

Please help. One week ago I rescued 6 battery hens hours before being loaded onto the trucks bound for slaughter. They are very badly bruised, but seem to be coming around to life outside a battery cage fairly well. Two have even ventured outside the coop today. One chicken has started throwing...