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The age old question, hen or Roo? I don't have another to compare to, buff cochin from wilco.

One of my chickens likes to stick her head through the fencing, rest her chin, and sleep against the fencing, lol. At first it freaked me out-was she stuck? Was she dead? Nope, just fine, she just likes to sleep that way. She does it all the time. :lol:

Not sure what this is, but it hasn't gone away and is bigger now. Just on the one side. Otherwise she's normal.

3+ week old chick. Wish I had gotten two of them to tell easier. Getting big feet and beak but maybe normal for breed? Has black feathers with brown tips, used to be only brown. The dark feathers are coming in on the neck and pics I've seen the roos have light feathers on head and neck? Going...

I'm thinking my week old chick may have impacted crop. It is very full and large and she has pretty much no mass around her keel. I've had them for 4 days, on medicated starter. There is nothing hard I can feel in the crop. Otherwise she is acting normal. She still wants to eat more, so I have...

Hello, We will be building a new coop soon and I'd like to use the deep litter method. I'm wondering if there are certain aspects of the coop that would work better for this? We've discussed concrete vs dirt floor? As well as having metal siding near the bottom to avoid wood rot? What would...

We are moving and supposedly the new place has foxes that have killed chickens before. I haven't dealt with foxes before, only possums and raccoons which have never attacked my chickens so far. I will be building a new coop, but I was going to do some kind of temporary thing before it's...

I recently noticed my oldest laying hen had a "I'm sick" posture. She is in the middle of molting, so I thought she might just be uncomfortable but when I caught her I realized she was very underweight! I've never felt one of my chickens to be so thin. By interacting with her, she seems very...

I've had issues lately with mice getting into the free feeder I have set up for feeding pellets to my chickens. Mice poop gets in it, and I have one chicken who is avoiding the pellets now. I'd like to set up grandpa feeders soon, but want to think of other options in the mean time. For those...

I recently noticed my oldest laying hen had a "I'm sick" posture. She is in the middle of molting, so I thought she might just be uncomfortable but when I caught her I realized she was very underweight! I've never felt one of my chickens to be so thin. By interacting with her, she seems very...

Yesterday I saw one of my chickens seriously hobbling. So I separated her into the chicken tractor. She avoids putting any weight on her right leg ave holds her foot up. She hobbles when she has to but will lay down quickly. I may need to put her in a smaller housing and bring her food/water...

My chicken Maristella and her first egg! She's not too sure why I have it, lol!

Hey folks, I've been using grazing frames for a few months now and really like it! Yet so far my chickens really only eat the grasses I've grown, and don't go for clover or other plants that I've tried. I have three grazing beds and grow one type of plant per bed so it grows well and plan to...

This is my first Amerucana and the only one I have, so nothing to compare it with. It's 21 weeks old

So this year I have kept my chickens fenced in about a third of the yard, before they had free range of the whole yard. I realized we have ticks in the yard were the chickens aren't. Should I be protecting my chickens from the ticks somehow or should I let them range in the yard to help eat...

I noticed a pretty bad sore on the top of one of my lower ranking chickens foot. After treating it and separating her for a day, I noticed smaller sores on a couple others feet in the same spot. I then saw my highest ranking chicken biting, not just pecking, really biting the feet of chickens...

Puffed up, not drinking, didn't fight me at all when I picked her up. She's inside, on a heating pad now. Other steps to take? Two weeks ago I had a wyandotte that is a year old die out of the blue. I put the other chickens on oxytetracyline antibiotic when I found only very dark lungs in the...

So my husband found one of my chickens dead this morning. She was outside in the run area, didn't appear to be attacked, and was still fairly warm so it was this morning. He also found a slightly bloody egg laid in the coop, but no blood in the stool that was next to her when he found her. She...

So next to the coop we have a large brush and wood pile in the corner of the yard. I also tend to throw any broken eggs into the brush pile. It was when I did this a couple weeks ago that I saw the first possum. We have since trapped two smaller ones, but not the big one I saw. On top of...

I've noticed one of my older chickens pecking at the butt feathers of my younger chickens, just when they are out and about. Not sure if it is a dominance thing or vent pecking thing. Could it lead to vent pecking? She seems to do it in an aggressive manner, not a preening or curious manner.