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Let’s play the game! Hen or Roo? Supposed to be a speckled Sussex but the legs are yellow - so I guess some kind of mix. Sister speckled Sussex is in front At bottom of first photo. Also any idea of what she/he is mixed with? Not pure bred speckled Sussex due to yellow legs. Approximately 8...

I have a Rhode Island Red that might have acitis also known as water belly. She went through her molt and seemed fine all winter. Symptoms have been subtle and slow to progress. She had been waddling and at first I thought she was getting fat. Then I noticed she was having more trouble walking...

I have a black Austrolorp that will sometimes leave the nesting box before her egg is out completely. I have caught her a few times hunched over and watched her finish popping the egg out onto the ground. I have even caught it in my hand a couple of times. Lately she does it almost every time...

I have a flock of five hens - no roosters - my first flock. I first noticed the feather loss on one of my Black Austrolorps belly. Almost all of her feathers were gone. Then I noticed my other Austrolorp was missing feathers on her belly also. Then I started seeing feathers from the Rhode Island...

I have five hens and yesterday I noticed that two of my girls have lost big patches of feathers - mostly on their bellies. I can't tell if it is a mite problem or molting. The skin where the feathers are missing doesn't look red or irritated. I checked under the roost bars last night and...

I have one Americana hen that stopped laying about four days ago. She has been very consistent up till now - only skips one day here and there once she started laying almost a year ago - and even layed all through winter. She is just over a year old and seems happy and healthy otherwise. All of...

This is the first year I have had chickens and so am new to a lot of things still. I started with 5 pullets around 16 weeks old (2 black Australorps, 2 rhode Island reds and one arunacana) and so far so good. They are a great little flock. However the rhode island reds and the australorps...

This morning I went out to do my chicken chores and I noticed that a couple of my hens had small scabs on their combs - and two of the girls had significantly more than the others. One girl looked like she had a scrape and the other had scabs on the tip of her comb. They have had these scabs...

Hello fellow chicken lovers! I am a new chicken owner as of this past May. I have 5 hens - 2 black Australorps, 2 Rhode Island Reds and one Araucana. I am looking for any advice for winterizing my chicken coop and pen. I live in SW New Mexico - up in the mountains at about 6000 elevation. We...