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I don't know how to add a picture, but the box is in the garage - predator proof- with a screen lid.

It is in the garage, predator proof with a screen cover

I am getting 10 day old chicks tomorrow- I have a 3'x5' box already- the sides are chicken wire - do I need to have higher wood on the sides?

She shut down and wouldn't eat or drink. It broke our hearts, but she was warm, save and loved when she died.

I assume I should put the kennel inside the coop rather than out in the run?? Or should it be moved out during the day and in at night?

One of my hens was molting heavily especially from her back end. When I took a snack out to the girls, she was missing and I found her wedged between the nesting boxes and the walls. She had lost most of the feathers all over her back end, her wings were injured and she was limping. I moved...

She is now drinking water if we hold her by the bowl of water. We got NutriDrench down her last night and today she eat some coconut oil. There is no solid poop, but slightly soiled fluid on her towel.

I continue to work on the fluids, she is totally not interested. She can stand- not for long, her crop feels hard and she has not pooped since she has been inside. Just seems to rest mostly, keeping her in a box in the bathroom.

When I leave in the morning and get home at night it is dark, the chickens are in bed obviously. Last night when I went in to check their water and collect eggs, I was short one chicken. I found her outside in their run laying next to a feeding bowl, on her side and frigidly cold. Her body...

My buff orp had become broody, so I switched out the egg with a newborn, she is an awesome mama. We gave them separated from my other three girls. When and how do I introduce them back into the flock?

It is huge compared to where they are living.

The large coup is what we just completed for the girls, the smaller red one is where the two older girls lived, and the small one is where the three younger girls lived. They spent several hours out in the yard staying in their two separate groups, but when close together, one of the one young...

When you say intervene, how far do I take this,just stepping in at them or more?

I have two flocks of girls, two were born April 2018 and the other three were born this Feb. I have had them out to free range together some, last night their new coop was finished and they are now all together. The two older girls are scared to death of the other three. The easter egger is...