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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...