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Hi Everyone! Thanks so much for your responses to my questions! We are so excited about the chicks. It was such a fun surprise. We moved the hen and her chicks into a pen that we have at the back of the coop. She immediately went to the corner and settled down with them. They have food and water...

Okay, this is kind of embarrassing, but my children have been collecting eggs for me in the mornings for quite awhile. Apparently, there was a broody hen whose eggs they were avoiding and not collecting because they came running back from the coop this morning squealing about the fact that there...

***UPDATE**** Tonight, I separated her from the other hens and gave her some cat food. I felt her crop and abdomen and if anything, I think she feels very skinny. Nothing feels swollen or enlarged. Unless you all have any other direction, I think tomorrow I'll work on getting her wormed. Oh...

Hi Everyone, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I'm going to check her tonight before I put her in and see if I can keep her from the rest of the flock for a few days for extra care. I'll go to the store tomorrow to get the suggested wormer and de-licing, and give her some extra proteins. I'll keep you...

Hi, I have a 3 year old Rhode Island Red hen who has been looking more and more ill for the last week. At first I thought she was going into a molt, but now I'm starting to worry. She is very near and dear to me---from my first group of hens given to me by my late grandmother, and the only one...