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Thank you for responding! Unfortunately, she passed away on Sunday night. I feel terrible that we didn't put her out of her misery earlier. I knew she wasn't going to get better, but just tried to make her as comfortable as I could. I know it's just a part of owning chickens, but it doesn't...

We have a 3-4 year old ISA brown. She started acting sick a few days ago. Yesterday, it was very obvious that her abdomen is full of fluid. My first thought is water belly, so I took a syringe and drained a little bit. It was clear fluid. Any ideas? I stopped draining and kept her inside...

Our 2 little bantams are always snuggled with the roosters! There's always one with her tail sticking out from under him. I guess they figured out a way to stay warm!

Thanks! I'll try to put one together tonight.

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We have a sapphire gem pullet. She's about 5 months old. On Thursday night, she wasn't walking very well. She would walk, and then collapse on her butt and stay sitting down. I checked for an egg internally, and didn't feel anything. I gave her a warm soak, dried her off, and let her stay in our...

We had to kill one of our roosters yesterday. He was our favorite and had such a personality! Unfortunately, he was too rough on the hens. Whipping them around, causing wounds. They would scream and hide from him when he came near. We just had 2 chicks hatch a week ago and he went in and...

I'm not sure if I posted in the right spot, sorry if it's not! I had someone come and pick up several dozen eggs. She ended up tripping on something while walking out our door. She dropped 2 dozen eggs and most of them broke. I replaced the broken ones at no extra cost to her. I had to pull a...

7 month old brahma started showing signs of illness on Saturday. Very lethargic, huddled in a corner with her tail hung low. She would still get up on the roost at night and her crop would have a little bit of food in it. She stayed the same for a couple days. I checked to see if she was egg...

Thanks everybody!

She/he was hatched out by our broody hen and is 14 weeks old now. Up until recently, I was confident she was a pullet - the tail is throwing me off a little bit now. Thought I'd turn to the experts! Thoughts?

I do have kids! That's a great idea!

Yes, I'm thinking I need to raise the price if I provide the carton. The price I give is lower because I'm supposed to get my cartons back :hmm

Why do people you know (friends/family) expect their eggs for FREE?? Maybe I'm the only one with the problem, but I've had several people (people who I do work business with, siblings) just want eggs for free. Don't even offer me any money. My fault for allowing it a couple times. I don't...

She was. We are pretty confident that she was the only one in that nesting box since last night, though. We tried moving her last night to a separate space, where she was protected but could sill see everything and all the other chickens. She freaked out and rammed herself into the fence...

Have a broody hen. We kept taking her off the eggs hoping she would break (we had just had a hen hatch out 5 babies a couple weeks before) - didn't work. We picked out 3 eggs and put them under her. 1 broke and 1 didn't develop, so we were left with 1. It pipped last night. She's been in the...

So, we've got a broody hen. We just had a hen hatch out 5 chicks for us a couple weeks ago, so we didn't want a bunch more chicks. We picked out 3 eggs we wanted to hatch and gave them to her. It's about day 9 or 10. One of the eggs got stepped on and broke and one isn't developing. So, now we...

We had a broody hen that originally was sitting on 13 eggs. A couple broke, one disappeared and 2 stopped developing. She had 8 eggs in the end. They were all alive and moving 4 days before they were due to hatch. 5 hatched within 5 days and are doing great! The other 3 hatched and all died...

This is our first year with a broody hen, so I apologize in advance for any stupid questions! She started out with 9. They were all alive and moving as of Sunday (5 days ago). We had one die in the shell, so down to 8. We have 4 that have hatched and are doing great! I went out this morning...

We had an issue last year with this. The HOA went inactive and there is no longer even a board, but the covenants were "with the land." No one follows the covenants and everyone thought they were abandoned. Anyways, some asshole bought the lot next to us and started giving us problems about our...