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I have a barred rock hen who has suddenly started laying very large eggs. This started after she had been egg-bound one day. The color is much lighter than it used to be and the white seems thinner. The shell is a bit thinner too but not a soft shell. Should I up her calcium or something else...

These two are 16 weeks and I just noticed those tail feathers popping out. Roo or pullet?

This morning I found a chunk of feathers with skin attached on the coop floor. Looked around and saw my 6 week old cream legbar with a chunk missing from her neck. Im sure it was one of my hens. They have a safe place to run to in the coop but she must have gotten cornered. They have plenty of...

I’ve been wondering if there’s something in my soil. We moved to our home in July. First issue: My 2 BR hens got sick but recovered in July from an URI. I gave them Tylan injections and they recovered. No further issues. Second: I had 3 cream Legbar pullets die suddenly but each 2-4 weeks...

I have 2 pullets, a Wyandotte 16 wks, and a Cream Legbar 14 wks who both suddenly started limping this afternoon. What really concerns me is the Wyandotte looks very bad and her right wing is dropped. I quarantined them together. Both are eating and drinking. I have not found any unusual poop...

My husband and I recently converted this barn into a coop. I currently have 2 hens and 4 12 week old pullets in it. I have 11 1 week old chicks in a outdoor brooder by the house. I would really like to move them into the barn/coop ASAP as it’s a lot more secure and bigger than their brooder but...

Yesterday I received an online shipment of 15 chicks. 4 were DOA and 2 were struggling. One has perked up nicely but the other is still very weak. I actually thought she was dead along with the others and am amazed she has lived 24 hrs. At one point this morning she had clear snot coming from...

Hello all! I have a batch of 15 chicks arriving this week and I just started rethinking how to brood them. I live in north Texas and currently our high is 97 and low in the high 60’s. Although (hopefully) it was cool off a bit soon. It won’t be cold for at least a couple of months. So I was...

These 3 have me so baffled. All supposed to be pullets. One has a hen tail but large wattles, another has possibly a rooster tail with small pale comb and wattles, the last one has a hen tail and small but red comb and wattles. I have spent hours researching trying to find out for sure. Any...

Hello! I often come to this site to check for threads on my questions so I finally decided to join. I started raising chickens almost 2 years ago. For the first year and a half I had zero issues. The last 3 months, however, I feel like I’ve dealt with almost every issue from predators to...