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Our 3-yr old hen is sitting feet-forward like this & doesn't seem to be able to stand. When she does move in the coop, she does so by flapping her wings & pushing herself backwards w/ her feet. This just started today, although for the last couple of days she has not been moving around a lot...

This isn't great, but it's what I could get this morning:

We recently introduced a young (not a chick but not laying yet) Bantam Cochin to our flock of 3 full-sized hens. Shortly after this, our #1 hen started to have some trouble walking and spent a lot of time sitting. A full explanation here would be too long, but I'm certain this is unrelated to...

Ok, after a couple of days inside she perked up some & seems to be doing better. Hasn't laid since Sunday but maybe that is part of the recovery process?

We have three hens, a Leghorn, a Barred Plymouth Rock, and an Easter Egger/Ameraucana. The BPR is about 2.5 years old, the others are under a year old. We live in southern AZ where it's quite warm in the summer -- every day in June topped 100 degrees. We try various things to keep the girls...

Thanks for the advice. We ended up getting two more chickens, a Leghorn and an Ameraucana, from the "3-5 month" group at the local feed store.We didn't have a way to section off the run, so we used a dog cage and kept it right outside the run so they could see/hear each other. We introduced...

Hi all, About a year ago we were given our first two chickens - 1-yr old Plymouth Rocks. One of them recently passed away - we don't know what caused it, but it has not affected the other chicken (except that she seems lonely). We would like to bring in 2-3 more chickens to keep the remaining...