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We seem to be losing chickens to eagles - it's been an ongoing issue for most of this year, but we've only just realised it's actually the eagles taking them. They've basically taken our entire flock one by one. :( Our hens have been completely free range up until now - they sleep in a coop at...

I've posted about this before (approx 6 months ago), but I have a slightly different question to ask now, so hope it's ok to post a whole new thread? We got some chooks very cheaply from a neighbour a couple of years ago. They were a mess when we got them - clearly there were stress and...

Actually... I just had a thought... I wonder if it is kind of a 'scarcity' thing after all. We decided to let the goats into the chicken yard a while ago so they could eat the thorny bushes that were taking over. We also thought we'd let the chickens out into the goat yard where there's masses...

Thank you so much for your reply, I really appreciate it! The weird thing is that I don't think it's really about the new chickens. The older lot of hens were introduced to each other maybe a year ago and there were no problems at all. The new ones seemed to settle in fine, they were smaller...

We have a flock of 15 hens - most are older Isa Browns that we bought cheap from a neighbour. When we got them, they'd obviously been pecking each other really badly, but when they moved in here, they seemed really happy and it completely stopped. They'd also been barely laying, but started to...

I just went and gave her some more food and I noticed that her comb is normal red now, no purple is obvious at all. Is this a good sign? I'm not sure whether to be hopeful or not. She didn't eat much, but she did have a little - she mightn't have liked the taste I'm not sure (it was a mix of...

Hi Everyone I'm new here; I live with my family in a rural area of Sydney, Australia. We have 19 chickens at the moment, mostly Isa Browns, one cross breed, and 6 rhode islands. They're mostly maybe a couple of years old, apart from 3 pullets who aren't laying yet. We just keep them for eggs...

I was hoping you might be able to offer me some advice. I have a very unwell chicken - she's been sick for almost 2 weeks now. At first it was the usual signs of a parasitic infection - diarrhea, pale comb, off her food, etc. I treated the entire flock with wormer and all the other chickens...