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Due to a change in my living situation, I am unable to keep my 4 hens. I have one light Brahma, one buff orpington, one barnvelder and one easter egger. They are about 4 years old and healthy. They still lay occasionally but not frequently, so they are best for someone who doesn't care as...

In my experience, they won't lay for a week or two after going broody.I have a small flock and have had two of my girls go broody. I had to put both in a wire care to break them. I broke my broody Easter Egger last week. She hasn't laid an egg in about a week and a half. It usually takes...

It sounds like it could maybe be pasty butt. I have never raised chicks, so I have no personal experience with it, but I think you need to moisten a paper towel with warm water and moisten the droppings on the chick's rear using the paper towel until you can gently remove them. and then keep...

Chicken food=rodents=snakes. I wish some non-venomous snakes would move into my yard = natural rat population control. I'm smack in the urban burbs and have seen many a rat in my yard since we got the chickens and I don't feed food on the ground and my chickens don't really bill out food and...

Search "sudden death" in the box at the top of the page. There are several threads on this site about this topic that might be helpful. If you really want to know what happened, you should get you a necropsy done. Wrap the hen in a plastic bag and put her in the refrigerator (NOT the...

I was born in the mid '70s. Growing up I thought that I didn't like actual butter. I don't recall ever having real butter in the house unless my mom was making a recipe that absolutely needed real butter. And we never spread it on bread. That was what margarine was for. I don't think I knew...

I laughed out loud when I read about Finn hanging from the screen. When I was in high school I used to baby sit the kids across the street who had a dog and an outdoor cat. The kids were in bed and I was downstairs by myself around 9:00 at night watching T.V. and sitting directly across from...

Oh, those poor little babies! That just breaks my heart!

Have you looked around your foraging area to make sure they haven't found a spot they like better than the nest box? Maybe they are laying under a bush, or somewhere.

Yes, that is their crop. It will be full and bigger/rounder when they have eaten a lot, and smaller/not visible in the morning after they have gone all night without eating. It;s like a storage pouch where the food goes before being digested. If it isn't smaller in the morning when you let...

Congratulations on saving these hens! Have you tried looking on Craigslist for a coop or posting on the free stuff wanted section of Craigslist saying you are looking for a coop? I know Santa Rosa has it's fair share of chickens, so maybe you can find something that way. I've used a dog crate...

It sounds like could be coccidiosis. I agree with the suggestion to treat with Corid. @casportpony has a good thread with dosing info here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/818879/updated-corid-and-amprol-amprolium-dosing Good luck with your babies!

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How does her crop feel? Could she have sour crop? Is she eating/drinking/eliminating OK? I'm assuming you would see it if she did, but is it possible that she has an open wound of some sort, maybe cause by the rooster, that is infected and smelly? I don't know, I'm just throwing ideas out.

Glad we could help. Too bad chickens don't come with an instruction manual! But even if they did, they wouldn't read it so they still would leave us scratching our heads! Glad your girl is OK.

I think your chicken is molting. It happens. I've read that it doesn't happen until after they are a year old, but I've had some molt much earlier than that. Is it acting ill in any way? Are the other chicken's picking at it? If not, it's probably just a mlt and nothing to worry about...

Gaping for breath is never a good sign. If she hasn't been laying, do you think she has been laying internally? Does her abdomen feel hard or warmer than it should? If she has been laying internally, she likely has an infection and there probably isn't much you can do for her. Are you able...

Is she laying? IS she eating and drinking? Does she seem like she is gasping for breath? How long do you think she has been sick.

Oh, lucky you, @Idpowell! I had a stray hen show up in my yard on News Years day, 2015 (but I live in the the urban 'burbs, not the country). She looked almost exactly like your new friend, and believe it or not, her name was also Clucky! LOL! Unfortunately she passed away 7 months after she...

Because your chickens are so young and just started to lay. The eggs will probably increase in size a bit over the next few months. Keep in mind that different chickens and breeds of chicken will lay different size eggs.