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Well, my remaining pet RIR, the Lovely Rhonda, is 7 years old, healthy and vigorous. She resumed laying in May, laid for 3-4 weeks, then caught a virus and stopped laying. After she got well (3 days), she did not resume laying, and hadn't for at least 6 weeks.. However, she laid and ate one egg...

Rhoda, my 6 yr. old RIR, is in trouble. -She is listless, not moving, not eating or drinking more than a taste. -She has white to yellowish, stringy, mucous-like, liquid stool. -Her normally large, bright red comb and wattles are shrunken and purplish in color. -She sits/lays with her head...

Valentine's day morning, our 2 R.I reds were on the patio in the dark (5 am). The door to the run had been left open (wife forgot to close). My dear little Marilyn (bantam cochin) was not to be seen. I went to the coop immediately, and she was there, dead, head chewed off. The reds were agitated...

My friendly white bantam cochin (Marilyn) loves being indoors with us, but is not happy when she gets fitted with her chicken diaper. She picks at the straps and pulls out feathers while trying. She just won't leave it alone. Any suggestions about helping her adjust?

I wrote that rhyming stuff hoping to get enough attention for my sick R.I. Red (Rhoda) that she will BE HEALED! The scenario: It turned cold three days ago and snowed. My three ladies (Rhoda, Rhonda, and Marilyn) refused to come out of their coop. They won't even come down the ramp into the pen...

In my suburban backyard, we have many squirrels, 45 varieties of wild birds, and the occasional opossum and raccoon. My chickens (3 ladies) have the run of the yard, and are cooped at night. I just noticed a squirrel that appears to have distemper or something like that. It weaves from side to...

My feed and farm store gave me piperazine to worm my free-run chickens, saying that eating earthworms, slugs, etc. can give them intestinal parasites (worms). This medication is used for dogs and cats as well. My problem is with method of giving them the piperazine and the dosage. Directions...

I'm just curious....what is the reason for the wiping of the beak on the ground? My three girls do this fifty times a day. Is it marking turf, like cats do? If so, is there a scent gland involved? Is it to sharpen the beak (lordy, I hope not)? Is this a silly question?

In my attempt to understand chicken choices, I offer many different foods to my three girls. For example, mine don't like cracked corn, but love fresh corn. They also are crazy about cheese. Is this a no-no? Last week, I was on the patio with a bag of marshmallows, chickens milling about my...

My white, featherlegged, bantam cochin (Marilyn) goes broody every three months or so. Her R.I. Red sisters (Rhonda and Rhoda) share a nest box with her. They will only use one box, even thought there are two, side-by-side. When Marilyn starts setting, there is competition for the box and...

I'm curious about what one can learn about their chicken's health from the nature of their droppings. My three girls (2 R.I. reds, 1 bantam featherlegged cochin), put out very different droppings from day to day. They are free-range in my back yard and all eat basically the same thing. The...