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Hi! Thanks for asking! She's kind of better. She definitely was not egg bound. She's not laying still, and still has pretty runny poop. But she's not quite so lethargic and her tail feathers have perked up. We had her inside for a couple of days, then treated her with an antibiotic (which...

I was surprised this morning to find that she did not die during the night. In fact, she doesn't look any worse than yesterday. She's still lethargic, but it doesn't look like the end is imminent. She's been drinking water and eating a bit. It almost makes me wonder if it could be something...

Oh, no! I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm hoping that this one recovers because otherwise that would leave us with just one lonely hen. We had one other that died last summer. I'm surprised by how much she seems to like the bath! Normally I wouldn't think she'd tolerate that so much. But who...

First clue something might be wrong was my hen seemed to be in the nest box most of the day, the day before yesterday. I thought maybe she was broody, but the only egg that there wasn't hers (I don't know if that matters). Then yesterday she came out occasionally but seemed lethargic, not...

Good to know! Thanks! And that's right - we don't have a rooster, and she's the most dominant.

One of our hens, a barred rock, has been making a noise the last few days remarkably similar to a rooster, maybe missing a syllable of the familiar "cockadoodledo." I think she did the same thing about a year ago for a little while. Has anybody seen this before? Just curious! She's still...

I, too, bring the water to a boil, and then lower the eggs in. If it's just one or two, using a ladle works well. But if you've got a bunch - like lots of people do for Easter egg dying - I find it works to bundle them into a kitchen towel and lower them together, then just leave the towel in...

Hi! I've been concerned about a hen that's been molting. Her new feathers have started coming in and until today I was starting to feel better about her. (She had been kind of not herself, didn't have her usual perk, etc.) Well, this morning she will not leave the coop and come outside. She...

Thanks for the suggestions! I suppose it's possible that the feathers aren't broken after all but the new ones coming in. I'll have to take a closer look - maybe I'll wait a day or two since today's mite treatment might have been a little traumatic. Thanks for that - and thanks for the...

Hi! Okay, I posted on this a few days ago but a few new things have come to light. I have one of my hens that has been losing feathers. I think it started slowly initially, then about four days ago she started losing them very quickly. At first I thought she was molting. Then I thought...

Okay - I'll go with that. Thanks!

Hi - my Buff Orpington suddenly started losing feathers a few days ago - they're scattered around the yard and in the morning they're carpeting the coop. At first I thought maybe she was molting - I don't even know if this would be normal but didn't know what else it could be. But neither of...

Great! Thanks for the ideas!

Hi! I'm pondering this year's garden and this is the first year that we're starting the growing season with full-grown, free-ranging chickens. I appreciate all the droppings they've deposited all over the garden, and I love how they've kept weeds to a minimum with all that scratching they do...

It's possible that it's not frostbite but peck marks or something else. There were several spots that were completely black, as I recall. But no, they were not cooped up more than usual. They have the run of our yard in the winter time. And it did heal. Maybe it was just a fluke. But I do...

Hi everybody - this is my first real question here, so thanks in advance for any info anybody has for me! I appreciate the notion that chickens can live in very cold places without heat, etc - in theory anyway. But when it got cold here for several nights in a row (15 degrees at night), one of...

Hi! This forum has been very helpful - I figured it was about time I registered. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? [/b] We just got ours last March, about ten months ago. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Three (3) What breeds do you have? One...