Recent content by beatriceanddaisy

I forgot to reply to this thread last year but I wanted to say THANK YOU for all your advice! The integration process happened eventually and they're one happy flock now. Now we have 5 grown chickens and 3 teenage chickens and are starting the process all over again 🤪

Update: I took her to the avian vet and she confirmed that it doesn't appear to be any kind of paraiste. Vet confirmed that she's pulling out the feathers herself, and this is actually a normal (though not common) reproductive behavior that some prolific layer breeds such as RI Reds have at...

Thanks for your reply! I am taking her to the vet tomorrow.

Thanks for your reply! That's heartening and helpful.

Thanks for your reply! She roosts on a cedar bar and has been on the same one her whole life, so I'm not sure its something about the bar. I wiped it down to be safe, and didn't see any residue or weird stuff on it...

My 1.5 year old RI Red has been progressively losing feathers for several months. She's active, eating, and laying. We ignored it but have recently been concerned that its something serious, and when we picked her up to inspect we saw that her entire underside from neck to vent is featherless...

As the title says, my 1.5 year old RI Red is missing feathers on her entire underbelly and around vent. It wasn't until we picked her up and looked that we saw the extent of the missing feathers (click through to see close-up): She lives with 4 other hens, none of whom have any noticeable...

Could really use some advice. We have three 4-month old chickens and three 3-month old chickens and are trying to integrate them into one flock, but its proving hard. They've been living in the same covered run, separated by a fence, for over a month. (The older ones are in the coop, and the...

Thank you!! That is so good to hear. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond!

Phew, thank you!

Thank you!! That is so good to hear. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond!

Experienced chicken people - do you see anything alarming in these photos? We got this RIR about 3 weeks ago from My Pet Chicken as a 6-week "started pullet" so she's now about 9 weeks old. She's always looked a little scraggly. She hates being picked up but a week after we got her we did a...

Until this week we had four lovely 9-week old chickens. They've been outside for barely a month, and have a very secure coop+small run (5x10' total) and we let them roam in an enclosed but open-top area during the day, unsupervised. But now we only have three chickens, thanks to two raccoons and...

Hello! I'm a newbie chicken owner living in an urban area. Always wanted chickens, and this spring was the right time to go for it. In early April we got 4 baby chicks and off we went! Having chickens is more fun than I expected, and we've already learned quite a lot - there are some things I...