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My 3.5 year old hen, Parsley, was spayed one month ago. She is doing great but is now in a nest and growling at me. I have an intercom radio in there so I can listen to the girls at night, she tucked that underneath her and is growling. I have to be very aware of possible signs of ovulation...

Found these things this morning. The rubber blobs have been seen before, but am curious what the heck they are! Saffron, BO, 3.2 years old, stopped laying 10 months ago. Eating, drinking normally - still alpha hen. Did look "tired" in the eyes late yesterday afternoon. No signs of illness...

My alpha hen, Saffron, has not laid an egg in over 8 months. She has been going up and sitting on the nest for the past month or so but nothing laid. This morning (6am) she sang in her coop and I found a shell-less egg! The "egg" contained only egg white, so now should I be worried about the...

We had a scare last week. A HUGE female Red Tail Hawk dove down and tried to take my BO, Saffron, who was about 6 feet away from me. The girls and I are very scared and I need to set up some sort of Hawk deterrent asap! The backyard's perimeter has fruit trees and some bushes but the middle...

Please forgive me for posting a redundant question....I have searched the threads and am even more confused. My girls have mites and only one has even been treated with Ivermectin at the vet's office last year. I have four hens, all between 2 and 2.5 years old. Their weights are about 5-7...

My 2 year old EE, Sugar, has laid two fart eggs and now today one rubber/shell-less egg. Last week she had a waxy poop smear off her vent and I gave her ACV in her water, probiotics and careful watching. It appears to be a one off occurance but the egg issue is really bothering me. She has...

My beautiful JG, Parsley, may be fighting a recurring bout of EYP. I suspected because, although she was laying up a storm (4-5 eggs/wk), is almost 2.5 years old, her bottom had grown some, was squishy then grow hard...really hard. It seemed like it was cyclical....before she laid, hard..after...

I went out and purchsed two roasters (Roosters the lady told me)....total they weigh almost 16 lbs....so how do I cook them? Will a 24 hour brine help to tenderize them? How long do I leave them in the oven or can I use a crockpot or pressure cooker? I figure if I mess up the cats/dog and...

It is now 15 days since the last dose of Baytril for my hen. How long do you abstain from eating eggs from a hen after baytril treatment? What do you do with the eggs that you disregard...do you cook them and feed them back to the chickens? When I called Bayer Animal Health, they were adamant...

my Parsley didn't look good the past few hours so I brought her inside for warmth. I just checked on her and she laid an egg with a rubbery shell. she was eating the remanents of the egg shell, so I don't know how much she actually released. What do I do? I still have liquid baytril..should...

my Parsley didn't look good the past few hours so I brought her inside for warmth. I just checked on her and she laid an egg with a rubbery shell. she was eating the remanents of the egg shell, so I don't know how much she actually released. What do I do? I still have liquid baytril..should...

My hen, Parsley, has not laid eggs for almost 2.5 weeks now. She has been on a 12 day run of Baytril for possible EYP. She seems normal...eating, drinking, dust bathing and pecking at her pal, Saffron. The past two days she has squatted for me. Today she actually got into the laybox on her...

it's been 2.5 weeks since she last laid. Her vet said she had EYP and gave Baytril and an anti inflammatory. Parsley's xrays said she was not egg bound, nor did the vet see any eggs forming at that time (last week). Now, Parsley has been squatting for almost 2 days and is now in the lay box...

My oldest hen, Parsley (1.9 yrs), is going through her first major molt now. She is also battling possible EYP and will be finishing up her Baytril antibiotics tomorrow. She dust bathes but just today, when she shook off the dirt and her larger feathers flew she jumped and squawked. She seemed...

My hen, Parsley, is doing so much better! She is on the final days of Baytril and she has put on some weight. I believe she is starting to molt...feathers are starting to fly off and she is grooming them off too. I have been feeding her buttermilk, Greek yogurt and Goat's Milk kefir mixed...

for an egg to appear? My hen, Parsley, has not laid an egg for about 3 to 4 days now. This past Friday night she stumbled out of her run with very very pale comb, face, waddles and very unsteady on her feet. She seemed like she was alittle disoriented. She stayed inside the house that night...

My beautiful Jersey Giant, Parsley, has taken ill the past 24 hours. Last night between 3-6pm, she all of a sudden lost most color in her comb and wattles. She was weak and doddling just abit around and had just passed fluorescent green droppings. When I picked her up, she was swollen between...

A stray cat that has been visiting the neighborhood died a few hours ago in my next door neighbor's backyard. Is cat mange contagious to chickens? I don't think it was ever in my backyard...but I can't be certain. Since I am setting up a worming schedule for my girls (wazine first then...

Well, I didn't think it could happen but it is! I received an old clutch of 7 American Buff goose eggs almost 2 months ago. I placed them in my hovabator on April 4th and now I have at least one little gosling hatching right now! I am shocked!! I candled them and half looked infertile and...

Is there a set ounces of food per pound of chicken in regards to feeding chicken? I now have only 4 (2 hens, 2 pullets) chickens now and am wondering how much to feed them. The get to run around on the back lawn and eat all the grass and bugs they want but seem to want to eat a lot more feed...