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Sunny is a 2 year-old EE. She seemed fine when I opened the doors this morning. I observed that she was just standing in one place for much of the morning and she's just been very lethargic and slow moving. She joined the other chickens pecking away at treat-time. No visible injuries. What...

We have & chickens, 4 20-month old EE, 2 8-month old White Leghorn and 1 8-month-old RI Red. The 3 youngsters have been consistent in their egg-laying. The older hens have endured their 1st molt and are now getting back into production. All seemed to be going well until . . . The weather turned...

One of my hens needs more vitamin E in her diet. Will it be harmful to the other chickens if I just add it to the flock's waterer?

Sunny is 1-1/2 years old. My wife has observed Sunny suddenly shake her head and then take a few backward steps. We've seen our other hens shake their heads - but not walk backward. Should this concern us?

Instead of oyster shell, we've been providing our hens with egg shells. My spouse read that you should bake the egg shells before feeding them to discourage egg eating. Whatchoo think, Chickeneers?

Does anyone know how to discourage other birds from raiding our chicken feeders? We're seeing our chicken food supply rapidly dwindle. The local quail flocks stop by to dust bathe and have a snack - we don't mind them so much 'cause they don't raid the feeders, but the sparrows are everywhere...

Sunny was a favorite target of our (former) rooster. He was a lot bigger than her and quite vigorous. She was wearing a saddle, but it didn't provide much protection for her wings. Should we do something about the exposed areas?

When our pullets first began laying, their eggs were a sort of Blue/Green/Teal color. Over the last few weeks, it seems that many of their eggs are much lighter - almost white. They're almost a year-old. Is that a reason to be alarmed?

We have a small flock - 5 hens and 1 Roo. Our Roo starts crowing waaaaaaay before sunrise. I'm wondering how - or IF - this affect the sleeping (or TRYING to sleep) hens.

Sometimes we hear the Egg Song, only to find no eggs. Sometimes we DON'T hear the song and DO find eggs. Sometimes the song is from the coop. Sometimes some other hens join in. Sometimes the hens and our roo join in. Today, I was filling their feed and was able to hear one hen going off - and...

We're wrapping up a Corid regimen. Because Corid is s'pozed to deplete B vitamins (?) we're advised to start giving our chickens Nutri-drench. How long are we s'pozed do use Nutri-drench?

We have 4 pullets and one Roo. They're 5 months old. Smoky has been acting normally, he's eating and drinking. We haven't noticed any abnormal poops. He has certainly been acting like the hormonal teenager that he is.

We got 6 chicks in May. Two of them turned out to be roos - we kept 1 and re-homed the other. We got our first egg on Thursday! Unfortunately, Sunny chose to lay her egg on a pile of temporary fencing in one of our storage sheds. Today she's frantically trying to get in that shed. We have 3 (so...

Based on the responses to my last post, I've concluded that my hastily purchased coopage will be woefully inadequate for when my chicks are fully grown. I'm hoping that the collective BYC knowledge base can help me make a wiser choice for their future home. So . . . Y'all got any Pre-fab...

My first posting has been . . . less than easy. I pretty much gave up trying to format the blasted thing. But I'd to make things a bit clearer by adding some text. How do I do that?

Being new to chickening, I rushed into purchasing what I thought would be the right sized pre-fab coop for 6 chickens. They were listed as being adequate for 4 to 6 hens and, since they had wheels, I thought tractoring would be a neat option. Reality has not been kind. Since discovering the...

1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? - We are newbies. We got our chicks May 4. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? - 6 cute fuzzballs (3) What breeds do you have? - We were told that they’d be Ameraucanas, but the sign at the store said Aurcaunas. In any...