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I grew up in Bloomfield, just outside the capital of Hartford, and am exploring moving back there, so one of the first things I did was to check the L.O.R.E there. I tried checking the ordinances online, but couldn't use the search feature from my phone at the time. So I just called the Town...

Now, granted, there are probably quite a few other things I could and should be doing, (finding some important papers, figuring out and then cooking something for supper--yikes, It's after 9:00 pm!), but while I was reading my, myYahoo local news earlier, I somehow went from news of a former...

Almost a month ago one of my hens didn't go in the coop with the others. It was dark when I went back out to look for her. Using a flashlight, I searched behind the coop, finally finding her body underneath (raised coop).... The University of Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic...

Someone please tell me what (predator?) animal left this calling card: Sorry I didn't have a ruler or quarter for size reference, it is about 2 to 3 inches long, 1/2-inch? wide. I saw it near the bottom of the ramp from the (closed) pop door to the run. I also realized that when I closed the...

These are my new girls. I think we've decided their names are Sylvie and Shirley.

This is my first classified, so if I've missed anything, let me know. I have "a bunch" of empty feed bags in the back yard, maybe a dozen or more. We've been told bu the landlord to clean up the yard, so that's one thing to go. (I never did learn how to make those grocery/tote bags ) If you...

I saw a story yesterday on a local (Hartford) news station about a woman who was told she can't have chickens in her town. (One of those ridiculous your-property-is-too-small ideas.) I wanted to post this right away, but they didn't have the article on the station's website when I went...

Helping my aunt with her grocery shopping, I went to the dairy section. Got the half-gallon of milk and the pound of butter she asked for, and I saw she had eggs on her list. Part-way through the "how long has it been since I needed to" thought, I looked at a dozen Jumbo brown eggs, and just...

>>> WARNING: Clinically Graphic Description to follow <<< GROSS FINDINGS: Four adult chickens were submitted for necropsy examination. Chicken 1: "Helen" New Hampshire Red, 2+ years old, leg Band CTA13610. There was extensive hemorrhage on the head and subcutaneously along the adjacent...

I could almost believe (as a neighbor suggested) that my chickens freaked out over Storm Sandy's noise, and went after each other, but can a chicken really leave another chicken headless? I thought, after the raccoon, we had things tight-- but is there something here that can fit through an inch...

A few days ago, I noticed my Wyandotte was in the second nest box, with my broody barred Cochin in the other, when I opened the coop up for the day. I scooted them both out, and didn't think much of it. Looking back, she's been kind of quiet, listless, but it's been hot, so I attributed it to...

It is my broody Barred Cochin doing this. I don't think it's anything I should worry about, but it is definitely a curiosity. She was actually out of the nest box for a while today, but when she --and a couple of others-- were just in the coop this afternoon (probably because I was there, with...

I had started putting aside eggs from the chicken who had been on antibiotics. I won't eat them, or even re-feed the shells to the flock, so I thought they might be good for crafts. (Easter got to me, I guess) Does anyone know how to keep eggs, in the shell, without worrying about them rotting...

My Barred Cochin is broody again. (I "broke" it in her several weeks ago, but it came back earlier this week.) She's taken over the preferred nest box (of 2) in the coop. For a couple of days the count seemed low in the other box. Yesterday I discovered that 3 of my hens had decided to lay in...

First, I've had a broody one for about a week. I tried the icepack in the nest box, but hours later, all I found was a sweaty hen, and a near-empty, wet zip-bag. Guess I should've checked more often that day. So then I lugged out the ol' dog crate (someday, Dad's gonna ask for that back), put...

About 2 and a half months ago (late November) I realized that the swelling and dark spot on my hen's foot was Bumblefoot. I took her to a veterinarian, where they confirmed it, performed surgery, gave me prescriptions for the antibiotic Clavamox and an anti-inflammatory, and told me to bring her...

(...well, yesterday now) It was not in the nestbox in the coop, but outside in a little nest-like hole in the dirt of the run, as if she couldn't wait to go up the ramp to lay. This is one picture, after I wiped some dirt off with a napkin: And another (I grabbed the quarter for size...

They have made it quite clear they do not want anything to do with that cold white stuff on the ground and in the air, no way, no how! When we had a dusting last week, my boyfriend told me that when he went to open the coop & let them out, the first hen took one step onto the ramp, and went...

I need other members' help in figuring out what this could be, and then, what to do about it. A couple of days ago, we noticed that our WL, Bianca, seemed to be limping. Yesterday, my boyfriend pointed out that one foot looked oddly swollen, almost like a ball or something. Well, it just so...

I think my "Ameracauna" pullet has begun to lay, but the egg that we thought was from her has no hint of blue (or green, or what I think olive should look like). We got her at "Chick Day" at our local feed store, thus, I think that she was from a hatchery, (so --as I've learned on here-- she...