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Has anyone used the automatic poultry feeder with the lid that opens when a chicken stands on the platform? The feeder is waterproof and can be filled with enough feed for a week or more -- the big selling point to me is that mice, rats, birds and other lighter-weight critters can't get the...

I just got a call that my chickens' fecal sample showed dwarf tapeworms. Last week the vet had said to give him a sample that had poop from all the hens since if one had parasites the others probably would too. I had been told the results were negative earlier this week but just found out about...

I asked this question or similar recently and got no response, so wanted to try again. I have one hen who has been dropping soft-shelled, mis-formed eggs from her roost at night -- I find them in a puddle under the roost in the morning when I open the coop. Another of the hens has done the same...

Suddenly the weirdness is upon my small 4-hen flock once again -- the past few days it seems laying has gone a bit haywire, just like it did last summer, and it's not even spring here yet! First a couple of days ago in early morning I found what must have been an egg that my hen Lucy dropped...

Before I make a big mistake, wanted to check and see if there are any dried herbs and flowers that anyone knows might be bad for hens.....my thought has been to toss some natural dried herbs into the coop bedding and nesting boxes, just to help things smell a bit fresher in there....I'm figuring...

We had our first big storm of the season last week and I realize that work needs to be done on the enclosure/run area -- right outside the coop entrance the dirt turned to terrible stinky muck, other areas are nasty too, but not quite so bad. As it is now, it's a mixture of dirt, mulch, old...

Sorry, I'm still a rather nervous newbie with each new thing that comes up! My 4 girls are 11-12 months and at least one of them has started to moult -- I just realized her tail feathers are gone and she's looking a bit sad, has stopped laying this past week, and goes in to roost before dark...

Lucy-fer, my oldest hen, an NHR and just one year old today, has always been top of the pecking order with the other three in my small flock -- she goes thru periods where she really jumps on them and pecks at them -- of course, mostly over food and I often isolate her when feeding choice...

I wrote some weeks ago about my young Brahma Baby who had gone broody and was setting on and attempting to hatch some wooden eggs. For a number of reasons my plan to find a wire cage for her to try to break the broodiness didn't work out before I had to leave town -- so we defaulted to just...

Trying to figure out what's going on -- yesterday I found a broken egg in a nesting box, and today I found two broken eggs, one had a small hole in it and was intact otherwise, it was sitting in the nesting box next to another box with a hen in it -- I fished the broken egg out and 10 minutes...

I'm new to hens -- have 4 under one year - no roosters. I'm wondering about my Brahma who is the youngest and just started laying last month. The last two nights she has gone into the coop earlier than the others (who wait until the last second before night falls) -- when I checked to make sure...

I have 4 hens -- oldest is about 9-10 months and the other three probably about 7-8 months. They have all started laying in past couple of months, the last one just a couple of weeks ago. The oldest has been top hen and while she can be pretty pushy and definitely a "me-first" kind of girl...

Two days ago I heard this weird vocalization or maybe cough from one of my young hens -- it was kind of like the sound when my dog chomped down on a squeaky toy -- abrupt, short, high pitched and almost a bleat. I thought she was coughing, hiccuping or maybe even choking for a minute. She did it...

I'm new at chickens (always had Malamutes until my last one died in February) -- I adopted two pullets, survivors of a raccoon massacre next door 2 months ago where chicks were not being well taken care of and locked in at night. My two girls are now about 5-1/2 months, New Hampshire Reds. We...