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My 2 grey girls used to be a dark grey but now they are getting lighter in color and light in feathers. Any ideas?

Thanks for the idea. It looks like I have a project when it warms up some. I live in Southern Iowa. I can't wait.

Is it hard to move?

I have a couple of girls that are a year old and they are losing their feathers from the chest down. I have dusted them. My Cinnamon Queen is okay. They don't seem to be sitting on the nest for an extreme amount of time. They go out and run around outside, in fact they get upset if its too cold...

I was just mowing my backyard and saw the biggest grounding in my coop. He chewed a hole in the building to get in there. How do I get rid of him?

It was in our local paper that it's in SE Iowa now. 5 commercial flocks have been hit. I only have 6 birds, what can I do to protect them? And what are the symptoms? The only birds mine are exposed to are finches and robins.

It's been 40 years since I have had chickens. I live in southern Iowa and our weather goes from icy to bitter cold. This may sound stupid but what are the protocols for letting them be outside if at all?

They go on the shed and sleep in the straw.

I haven't checked for lice, here is what they look they otherwise.

Their baby yellow fuzz. They won't sit on a roost.

Lay real still, they'll think we're just decorations.

Ever since they lost their fuzz they had looked like this. They have loose stools, but not all the time.

I have an older red hen that doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with the younger ones. They are white and twice as big. They have been seeing each other they the fence, they even stick their heads thru to each the scratch feed. But if I try to put them together she just chases after...