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Setting: My chickens are outside during a rainy day. They are standing near a nice, fresh, and cool container of clean water specifically for them. They are also near a dirty old hole filled with mud water. My chickens will 100% of time choose to drink the mud water.

I forgot to follow up on this, but the problem resolved itself. Perhaps I was reading too much into the feather thing.

Twice now I’ve lost a chicken to a myster predator. This is how it goes: I hear a chicken commotion- my flock is kind of making distressed and attention-seeking noises. I go out to check on them and one of them is missing. I look around the whole entire yard and no feathers, no blood, no signs...

Hey, A week or so ago, we had a snow storm and snow got into the chicken’s coop through a loose window. Some snow got onto the back of one of my chickens and those feathers haven’t been the same since. So, basically, the snow-covered feathers froze and remained frozen for a few days. I would...

I’d say about 75% of my dreams at night are about my 4 little cute chickens.

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My favorite Christmas present this year.

I feed them multi-flock feather-focused crumble feed. I fed them an egg layer feed a few months ago, but then they started to molt so we switched. I think the next bag of food I get will be egg laying feed. But to answer your question, feather-growing feed at the moment. However I have fed them...

One young one is a Lavender Orpington, other young one is a Rhode Island Red. One of the older ones is a Rhode Island White and the other older one is a Golden Comet.

My flock has been eggless for multiple months now. Like, for two whole seasons. Since halfway through summer my chickens have not been laying any eggs. I have two 2-year old chickens, and 2 2-month old chickens. I can understand the younger ones not being able to lay yet- but my older ones...

Two of my chickens had this problem last year. At first I too thought it was mites. However, these chickens were at the bottom end of the pecking order and the other chickens of the flock had just been bullying these two chickens. Some butt pecking had gotten out of hand and they had bare butts...