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I found my little Buff Orpington dead in the coop this morning. She was 23 weeks old and I noticed she was eating and drinking but not gaining any weight and seemed small.No other signs of illness. I guess whatever caused her failure to thrive ended her life prematurely. It's very sad to me...

That sounds like what happened to my favorite little 18 month old Orp today. I am sad tonight because she was my favorite.

I lost my 18 month old blue Orp this morning. She had been having some neurologic symptoms but seemed better yesterday. The others seem fine. Sorry for your loss.

I am worried about one of my hens. She is 15 months old, blue Orpington, and has been scratching and preening at her chest, so much that she sometimes rolls over. Still eating and drinking. Her 4 eggs a week dropped off to one so I knew she was stressed. I started duramycin in her water this...

We started with three young pullets and I would do it all over again. You get eggs quickly and they are sturdy.

I just saw this article in my hometown news. Talk about smart use of goats! http://www.brentwoodhomepage.com/owls-hill-workforce-grows-by-30-goats-that-is-cms-14963#.UtRVCJ5dU-c

I am changing out my waterers every hour or so and it's 7 here in Nashville. The pullets are twice their normal size, all puffed up trying to stay warm.

Great advice, thank you! We put golf balls and empty plastic Easter eggs out there and haven't had another incident. It probably helps that I started checking the box every hour or two after the broken egg. So far, we have collected 6 more eggs and no more broken ones. So it may have been a...

We had our first broken egg with another pullet grabbing the pieces of broken shell and running with it. I cleaned everything out of the nest box, put fresh litter in there, grabbed the broken shell bits and hung a suet feeder out there with celery tops to distract them. The feeder is full and I...