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So a little background. We live within city limits in a small rural town. We have a field, currently planted in wheat, on the back side of a 6 foot vinyl fence, which serves as the back side of our chicken yard. The rest of the chicken yard is enclosed with 1" x 2" opening 4' welded wire...

We have two ~18 week old hens that we are trying to integrate into our existing flock of 4 chickens. The 18 week old RIR ended up getting picked on, but we tried not to interfere with the pecking order. I went out last night and noticed that there was a gash that was about 1 inch by a 1/4 inch...

Okay so I'm back again with some concerns about one of our hens. Last November our Black Australorp became very sluggish and wouldn't eat or drink for a couple of days but eventually just got better. So the same chicken has been very lethargic for the last few days and the comb is limp. I...

So my wife and I built a version of the Wichita Cabin Coop but we are having some issues with the egg box leaking. I put composite shingles on the roof of the coop but the top off the egg box is just 1x wood. It is snowing and when I went out to look I noticed water dripping into the egg box...

Hello everyone. I am hoping that some of you might have advice for me. I have a black australorp that is about 18 months old and when I opened up the coop to let the chickens out for food and water this morning she just stayed on the roost. Her eyes kind of look like she was sleepy with these...

I built a new coop this year because we added a few more chickens and last year we just had a small A-frame chicken ark. In the coop I have placed a 250 W infr-red heat lamp on a thermostat just to try to keep the temperature slightly above freezing. It has been kicking on lately for just a...

I went to let the chickens out this morning and noticed our year and half year old black sex link just laying in the coop. She wasn't moving and when I reached in she was hard. I don't know what happened to her and I was hoping maybe I could get some ideas from you guys. She had been our...

I have a chicken that has laid two eggs. I believe it is my buff orpington. Today I found the egg and it was wet on the outside with what appeared to a watered down yolk like substance. I wiped it off before I thought to take a picture. I was just hoping nothing is wrong with one of my...

Ok I have a question on here about ideas for auto door openers. I have seen a lot of ideas and am pretty confident I could put something together for a door that slides from side to side or up and down. The problem is that my current coop is a Chicken Ark with the ramp being the door. I would...

So I received my first egg on Saturday, which was really soft and was two eggs attached together. I believe it was from my black sex link which is just a little over 16 weeks old. I have since had nothing. Is this normal, acceptable, problematic? All of my birds are still full of energy...

Ok I received my first egg yesterday. I thought it was from my buff orpington who has very a very large comb and waddles. Then this morning when I went to open up the coop I hear crowing, but I couldn't see who was doing it, then when they came out into the run whoever it wasn't didn't do it...

Well okay got my first egg today and have been waiting so anxiously. First it wasn't in the egg box, but it was close and it looked like she tried nesting in there and just didn't like the paper. I'm going to try hay. But then I noticed that the egg was really soft and it actually looked like...

Okay so maybe that is a little overly dramatic, but I am getting so anxious. I have 3 16 week old pullets. From left to right in the attached picture is Princess Buttercup a buff orpington, Trinity a black sex-link, and Victoria a black australorp. Buttercup's comb and waddles have been large...

I built a chicken ark for my 3 hens. I live on 1/5th and acre with about half in the back mostly fenced in. I am just looking for pictures and ideas of coops that people with small yards and small flocks have built. I don't intend to ever have more than 5 hens in my yard at a time, but I may...

Ok I have a small yard and not a good spot for a permanent coop, so we built a chicken tractor. It works well for our 3 chicks, however we have started letting them roam the yard in the evenings when we are home, and if we move the tractor it seems that they get lost. When it is time for bed...

I have 3 16 week old pullets, well at least I hope they are all pullets. I have a small chicken tractor with egg boxes at each end. There is a roost pole running down the middle, but it seems that they like to all crowd together into one of the egg boxes. I think I should be getting close to...

Ok, we are worried that our princess buttercup may become prince buttercup. This has been our favorite chicken but unfortunately where we live if it turns out to be a male we will have to relocate him. The reason I'm asking is we have two other chickens (black australorp and black sex link)...