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I have had one broody hen for about 2 weeks now. A couple others have been broody for a few days, but have now stopped. I noticed for the last 2-3 days that there have hardly been any eggs laid. Out of 11 chickens I am collecting 2-3 a day. Is this because of the broody? She comes out of the...

I am planning to use DE as a maintenance dewormer for my animals. I have dogs, goats, and chickens and a horse. My goats are still pretty young and I do not feed them grain. I am still weaning them off the bottle. Can I add the dosage to their formula? I cannot find anything online. I hope...

I got a pygmy goat yesterday and he is a bottle baby. It is too cold for him to be outside, so we have him in a crate that is for a large dog. He has been on the bottle his whole life and is really attached to people. I let him roam around, but he is quite a peebody. When I catch him in the act...

A deer or a horse ... if size were equal? I cannot find any comparable info online and it has become a debate between my husband and I. I know ... super random!

These are from yesterday and today. The one that is just fractured looking was yesterday. The busted one I just found. Is this a normal thing to happen. The eggs have been in the nesting box, but they kick everything out of the box so all that's left is the plywood. The egg did not have a...

I had two eggs on my waterer this morning. One was hard shelled and this one was soft. I have 3 pulleys that sleep on the water, the one has been laying for almost a week, the other two haven't. One is a black sex linked (brown egg) one is a white leghorn (white egg) ... Who does this one above...

I have one chicken, who in her defense, just started laying. We got egg 3 today (she is my only layer and that is why I can keep track!, lol). Egg 1: Laid under a piece of plywood in backyard. I Since have started keeping them in the coop until late evening so she wouldn't lay the egg out of...

I want to put zipties on their legs because it is getting hard to tell them apart. I use to use zipties when they were littler, but got really turned off by it because they grew too fast and I felt it was dangerous.

Sorry for any redundancy! Please point me in the direction of other threads if necessary. I got my first egg today. You can read the details here and there is a picture: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1011978/got-my-first-egg I heard that eggs are usually small (which this one was), but...

I got my chickens a week before Easter and I just got my first egg ... I think, anyway. I heard tons of commotion coming from the backyard. It sounded like one of my chickens was distressed. Because I couldn't see a chicken from the direction of the noise, I thought that she had hopped over the...

I bough this at our local feed store. It is pellets. I don't know if it is formulated for layers or just an all purpose flock food. Also, is it medicated? My birds are 3.5-4 months old and not laying yet.

My chickens have yet to start laying but they are approaching 18 weeks and I assume it is eminent. They didn't instinctively go into the coop at night, in fact I still am working on it with many of them (tried treats, but my birds have never really been treat motivated!). I don't want to have...

I already posted to emergencies, but it doesn't seem to get as much exposure as this section. It has been less than a week since the leg got broken. I have it splinted up. The swelling has went down, but it is bruised. She can move her toes. I have had the LH in a separate cage next to the...

Our chickens have not started laying yet. They are around 15-16 weeks old. My husband's friend is insistent that we need to feed them a special food or have a rooster in order for them to lay. I said that they lay and then you put them on the special food (layer feed, basically). Who is...

She is not walking on one leg. Is there anything I can do? He didn't mean to hurt her, but somehow he did ... I think it was partly in her effort to get away more than from anything he did.

How can I keep my chickens happy and healthy when it is hot? It has been in the 90s here. I have been giving them cool fruit from the fridge and making sure they have multiple water sources. Any other ideas?

One of my BO is developing wattles and red on the face faster than the others. It isn't growing a large comb in comparison to the others and is not crowing. But, would you generally know by 13 weeks if a chicken was a roo?

I read that great article on the home page here about mites. I have pine shavings in my run area. The pine shavings are fairly shallow and the chickens have dug into the actual dirt/soil and seem to be content dust bathing in that. Is that equivalent to sand for the purposes of treating/...

My chicks have been outside for 4 days, tonight will be their fourth night. The first two nights I physically put them in the coop and locked them in. Last night, I could not catch all of them (they went under their house) and I left them to go into the coop (or not) on their own. Tonight I...

Well the important parts. We still have some extra details to add. I designed the coop and my husband built it. They stayed in it last night, that was pretty comical. I had to physically get them into the coop and then as I am walking away I can tell they are exiting the coop (no door). I turn...