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We have 4 chickens that I've identified as non-laying or nearly non-laying and we don't have room to keep retired chickens. We're looking at a local chicken butchering service but these were good girls in their day and I think turning them into dinner is a poor reward for all their hard work...

No problems with my Springer Spaniel or my girlfriend's German Shepherd. However her daughter has a golden retriever who has never harmed one of their chickens and a mutt who's taken out several and is looking for an opportunity to do it again. So for the most part I'd treat all dogs the same...

And then she died. I should have moved immediately when I saw her acting oddly. By the time I did something what I should have done is put her down. Lesson learned.

I soaked her in a 5 gallon bucket with about 6" of soapy water with a little vinegar in it for about an hour and a half. She didn't drop an egg but did seem to be much more alert and active when I took her out. I wrapped her loosely in burlap and set her on a nesting box and left her. She...

Thanks. I've been reading and suspected egg bound. I soaked her for an hour in a 5 gal bucket with warm slightly soapy water. Then I held her and tried to massage her a bit. She's clearly tender and there's pressure on her anus but I can't feel an egg. Not sure what's going on now. No...

I've got one chicken who has really started acting like she was feeling poorly. Two days ago she didn't leave the pen when I let the rest of the chickens out. Yesterday she was just standing under the shelter not interacting with the rest of the chickens. Today she's sitting on the ground...

Good Morning, I'm going to wash my chickens today. They all seem to act healthy but some chickens look better than others, some act a little differently, and I'd like to look them over to judge their condition. Has anyone got any tips or is there a good online guide? I don't handle my...

I've got a White Orpington that started limping on one foot 4 days ago. I saw she had an injury on the top of that foot or front of her ankle but it was late so I let it go until the next day. When I went out the next morning she was limping on both feet, holding one up against her body when...

If you can figure out a way to STOP chickens from eating worms you might want to post it here just for the educational content.

Hello, I've got a flock of 10 hens, mostly Orpingtons with one (I think) RI Red in a 300 sq ft chicken yard. One of the Buff Orpingtons is just getting hammered. Feathers are nearly completely gone from her shoulders and head and my Jennie saw some blood on her shoulder today. The only...

I'm a new chicken rancher so take my words with a grain of salt. We've got a mixed 10 chicken flock that had a chicken yard with a low fence (we've raised the fence) in a suburban neighborhood. They quickly learned they could fly out but since they mostly stuck to our fenced in yard we didn't...

In the last year we've had three "fairy eggs". Two of them were smaller than a nickel and one about the size in your photo. Regular sized chickens, no bantams. It happens once in a while and makes of one delighted grandson when it does.

The term "a pellet gun" is much too broad. As others have pointed out they range in power quite a bit. Some will certainly NOT kill a squirrel but if you search the internet you'll find a video of someone killing a buffalo with a "pellet rifle". Growing up I had an model 1894 Daisy that was...