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Hi everyone- we have a 5 year old Easter egger hen who has a jiggly mass under her. It is impacting her walking although she eats regularly and has energy. My husband tried to insert a needle with syringe to drain fluid thinking it was water belly but blood started to come out so he stopped (18...

Hi everyone- wondering if anyone can offer input/advice/reassurace: some quick background.. A little over a month ago, I introduced two 8 month old EE hens to my flock of 4 (4 three year old hens). We quarantined for a month and then integrated them all together- just providing separate night...

Hi all. I posted earlier about how I am looking to get two new adult hens and integrate them into my already existing flock of 4 (they are 3 year olds). I have a few options I am weighing and wanted to see if anyone had an opinion on these choices. Choice 1- a family about an hour from me is...

Hi everyone, long story short- we have had a couple of predator attacks the last few years and our flock of 6 has dwindled down to 4 (4 adult hens around 3 years old). We are looking to add 2 adult chickens to the flock of 4. These 4 have only ever had each other, a couple can be a bit...

My 3 year old EE hen has been eating and drinking normally but walking oddly. She walks like she is carrying a heavy load, lower to the ground and with her butt kind of down. Her crop feels normal to me. I took pictures of her vent. I felt a large round watery/jiggly lump in the area of the...

Hi everyone, for about a week now I have noticed that my 3 year old BO hen has been walking differently- with her butt sort of tilted downward- almost looks like her bottom is too heavy to lift. I cleaned poop from her butt (she had a lot of it hardened and stuck) and her vent looked normal when...

My 3 year old RSL is eating and acting fine. She is currently molting. It's been very cold. My friend felt her feet looked red. Wanted to share here if anyone else felt so. Thank you very much!

Here in upstate NY, Temps will be dipping into below 0 on Friday and Saturday. They say there could be wind chills at night of -25 to -40. I have five 3 year old hens. 4 of them are big and puffy (BO's and EE) but one hen is a skinny (and molting) RSL. Our coop is shut up tight each night and...

Hi everyone! This may be on the website somewhere but I am wondering about lifespans for chicken breeds and length of time that certain breeds typically lay eggs for. I have a RSL, 2 BO, and 2 EE that are all 3.5 years old. They have not had any eggs in months now. Are their reproductive years...

She is 3.5 years old. Eating and drinking normally I think. She just has not layed an egg in months. She also tried sleeping in the nesting box tonight which is wierd for her (she never goes in there- even when she was laying eggs she would not lay them in there). I'm just worried with her age...

Hi everyone, does anyone know the typical lifespan of a red sex link hen? I know they tend to live shorter lives, but I'm wondering typical lifespan for one that has been raised in a small flock with excellent food/water, free ranging, etc. - if that might lengthen their life? My RSL will be...

Hi everyone, I have five, 3 year old hens- one RSL, two BO, two EE. They typically lay a lot less in the winter but even my RSL has totally stopped. It's been months since we have had eggs. The last few eggs my RSL had were large and hard- different than her normal eggs- not sure if that...

Hi everyone, my BO hen always has a poppy but. She is healthy but the poop over time sticks to her vent feathers and hardens. I try pulling it out with a glove buts its hard and caked. If I were to just cut the feathers that were caked in poop, would that hurt her? I wasn't sure if its unsafe to...

Hi everyone, I think my BO hen is broody- noticed the clucking this morning and she has been unwilling to leave the nesting box for the last few hours. I'm leaving for FL in a couple of hours and my neighbor will be watching the chickens for me while I'm away. I don't want him to have to...

Hi all, I have a flock of 2 year old hens that have never laid a soft shel egg until today. One EE and one RSL both did. Should I be concerned? Both were soft and felt like water balloons. Only change lately was we started a different egg layer feed two days ago...pics below. Thank you!

Hi everyone, I just have a general question about bantam roosters with a small flock of medium/large sized hens. Because a bantam is so much smaller, would it mount the hens less? We have always considered getting a rooster for our flock but only having 5 hens, I'd worry about mounting/the...

Hi all, we have a cold spell in upstate NY and I'm just concerned about my 5 chickens. They have a raised coop that fits them comfortably, it has some thin insulation and has pine shavings for bedding. I have a little heat screen in there but you can only feel warmth off of it if you are...

Hi everyone, I had tried treating my 1.5 year old EE for round worm a couple of weeks ago. I did 5 days of goat dewormer 1 ml. Each time. Her situation (white fungus) on head has not improved though and actually looks worse. Do I treat again the same way? Can I treat with dewormer for longer...

My 1.5 year old BO hen has very red legs/feet again, especially in the crevices. She has had scaly legs in the past and I treated it. The scales don't appear too raised like they were last time to me but perhaps you all will have some advice. Should I treat this? Thank you all very much.

Hi everyone, my husband and I are away until tomorrow. We left our chickens in their extended run which has trench and screening all around it. The screening the run is made of above ground is attached in the following photo. Could a cat squeeze through this? We saw a cat on our security camera...