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So we did all we could but she just kept getting weaker and weaker, and looked like she had given up so yesterday we made the difficult decision to end her suffering. Afterwards we cut open her crop and found a clump of wood shavings and small leaves in there. I made sure to feel the body...

Update: We took her in the house last night and hung out with her for the evening. She seemed to really like the kind companionship as opposed to being beaten up by the other chickens, and eventually fell asleep on my arm. I noticed that she was excreting only the white stuff (which I...

Hi everyone, This is our first time keeping chickens and we could use some help. We have ten birds who we got as 2 week old chicks, they are 14 weeks old now. A few days ago I noticed one of the hens was being attacked repeatedly and it sounded vicious. On one occasion I saw two or three of...

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Thanks for the tips!! Some very good points in there, I'll keep in mind about the corners and not making long narrow corridors (that's something I might have done in between garden plots). How big are the spaces in the netting you're using? I wonder if it makes a difference whether we fully...

Chicken tractors are awesome, that was what I originally wanted to do, but sadly that's not the answer in this case. It wouldn't provide the flexibility we need to deal with the irregular terrain and it also wouldn't allow us to change the size and shape of the enclosure when we want it to fit...

Hi all, we are new to chicken keeping and have been coming back here again and again, finally I had a question I couldn't find a clear answer to so I decided to sign up and ask :) We are building a coop and fixed enclosure/run with it, but in addition to that we'd like the chickens to be able...