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I have 2 breeds of chickens that I got a year ago (9 Welsummers and 3 Olive Eggers) as chicks. We were allowing our chickens in our garden this fall/winter and in December our neighbor's dog came over and attacked. He pulled a couple tail feathers out of 1 Olive Egger, a couple back feathers...

I have some Welsummer hens (they will be a year old the end of this month) and one of the 9 lays this odd light colored egg. She has always laid this color of egg. The eggs also always have a rougher texture especially on the smaller end of them. All the other hens lay a dark colored egg (as...

This is my first flock. I have 14 hens and after a dog attacked them in November, we were having issues with them pulling feathers off each other and eating them. I have 6 hens with bare backs from this (I don't have a rooster). So I read about putting pinless peepers on them to break them of...

So I had started a thread back in July about a chicken (my kids so kindly named Miss No Neck) that was holding her neck in after a high temp 4th of July weekend here in Kansas (the grey one by the fence on the right side of the picture). We ended up putting her back in with her friends a few...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I was raised on a farm with chickens, but this is the first flock I have had on my own. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? We currently have 15. (3) What breeds do you have? We have Welsummers and Sapphire Olive Eggers...

This is my first flock of chickens. We have 10 Welsummers and 5 Sapphire Olive Eggers, they are all 10 weeks old. We live in Kansas and it has been super hot and humid here. On the 4th of July, we were gone most of the day and when I came home I found one of my Olive Eggers all hunched up and...