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I have a wild turkey hen "sort of" hanging around. I have a burn pile about 100 yards from the coop which of course has lots of ash. She loves to dust bathe in it daily around 4pm or so. I see her in my back yard (about 4 acres in the back) foraging, often within about 50 yards of my birds while...

I have Welsummers from 2 different breeders. I am amazed at the variety of coloring produced by the same breed-although each bird is pretty consistent in the coloring she produces. One of my hens is very "artistic". My Speckled Sussex and Cuckoo Marans eggs were so consistently colored it was...

Two of my Welsummers will be 1 yr old April 1. They just started laying a month ago. My other three are 28 weeks old and started laying a couple weeks ago. I wanted to show y'all the lovely eggs I'm getting from my flock of 5 Wellies. The flock: The eggs:

My 4 new Welsummers (now 4 1/2 months old) spent a month in quarantine. Then I moved the coops/runs next to each while letting my 2 older Wellies (10 months old) out one day, then the littles the next day. After a week of that I turned them all out together to forage for a few hours each...

I have 2 Welsummers that are 8 months old. I just brought home 4 more 10 week old Wellsummer pullets. Both the existing Wellies and the new ones have been vaccinated for Marek's and Fowlpox. I have my older girls in a coop/run and not being allowed out at all (because as we all know, first thing...

My two Welsummers are 28 weeks old. Nice red combs, healthy birds. I haven't seen them eating oyster shell and they're not squatting. Looks like they've been in the nest boxes exploring but that's it. There's no way they're laying anywhere hidden. It's migration time and they are kept in for...

I'm in Texas and we're dealing with the flooding from Harvey. It's been raining since Friday night. 18 inches so far and about 10-14 inches more predicted. Winds have been 40-50mph and gusts over 60. My coop is two story. The top is two roost poles and the nest boxes, plus walking around area on...

Thinking about trying some cream legbars and wondered if anyone has any knowledge of how they do in heat? I'm in central Texas and summers can be brutal. This year we've had record breaking heat for week on end and night time temps "down" into the 80s. Lost my 2 cuckoo marans, even though I have...

Situation: I have 2 coops. One has two young welsummer pullets 16 weeks old. They have 50 sq ft of run to share. I got them May 1. The other coops is 75 sq feet and has my 5 yr old birds. One cuckoo marans and one speckled sussex. Both coops and runs are mobile and get moved every 10 days. Coops...

I wanted to try supplementing my sussex with vision problems with some nutri-drench. I see it's 1cc per 3 lbs. but what I DON'T see is how often/long to use it. Once daily? How many days? Don't want to create a problem with diarrhea but do want to help her any way I can.

I have a lovely 12 week old Speckled Sussex pullet that appears to have gone blind in her right eye. It looks like she may also be going blind in her left eye-I see some cloudiness there. I free range my girls for most of the day and I was ok with her being partially blind. (they are not ranging...

She's a Speckled Sussex. Her appetite is excellent. She drinks a LOT (is excessive thirst an indicator of an issue?). She's active-I even saw he fly about 10 feet in the run yesterday. She got about 4 feet off the ground. She's with two 13 week old Welsummers. They have 55 sq feet of run, shade...

I got her and another Sussex, as well as a couple Welsummers, from a breeder. They are being fed medicated chick starter. Day 3 being here, she started acting lethargic. She wasn't eating or drinking much. Day 4 I brought her inside and started treating her and everyone else with Corid...

I have a 4 yr old Speckled Sussex that may have bumblefoot. She's moving slowly and sitting a lot. I looked at her pads and they appear a little swollen. No heat or redness. I soaked her feet in an epsom salt bath yesterday, which she loved (I had to prop her head up along the edge of the tub...

I have 3 hens - lost 1 a couple months ago. No clue what happened. I found her in the nest box dead. Not eggbound, no injury. She was a 4 yr old Cuckoo Maran. I will be getting some 4 week old chicks next week and will be keeping them in a separate coop & run next to my current 4 yr old hens for...

Does anyone know where I can find some men's socks with chickens on them? I'm only finding them in women's sizes.

I've often read that caracaras are not a threat to chickens, but about an hour ago I heard some loud squawking (not my chickens) and stepped out back with my dogs, who chased up a pair of them that were on the ground about 30 feet from my hens' coop and run. The coop and run are completely...

I picked out my latest chicken guardian last week. He'll be coming home Jan. 1. He's a GSD and should learn some great chicken-herding tips from my other dogs. He's 6 weeks old in this picture. Glad I have an extra kennel for housebreaking, as my usual one has become the Hen Hospital!

My head hen, Bella, is a great leader. She reminds the other 3 she IS the boss, but she's not overly aggressive or mean about it at all. She's the first to alert when she hears or sees anything "not normal". Over the last few months I've noticed she's grown spurs. Not very big, but definitely...

I'll be deworming my gals late fall/early winter and wonder if it's safe to cook up the eggs and feed them to the gals or if I should just feed them to my dogs.