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shes a buff orpington and shes about 6-7months. We feed them normal pellet food. Every other chicken seems okay and it hasn't been hot lately...

maybe, but this chicken layed an egg on the ground and also is falling over when she walks...

she probably is but she hasnt really eaten all day, and her breathing is slow, we just went down there and she looks closer to death than ten minutes ago.

One of our chickens we found today in the nesting house, its very weak and doesnt want to move. We saw an egg on the ground the day before being eaten by ants, but we dont think its an egg problem. HELP PLEASE. BTW her crown is also tilted over, but doesnt show any major discoloration. Also its...

I was wondering what you guys think of these chickens I met in Cuba. I asked the rancher I was staying with what breed some of them are, and he told me all of the chickens in Cuba are weird cross-breeds. The Cubans call their eggs "huevos criollos". Let me know what you think! Thanks!

This link may help: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

We had an ameraucana a while ago and we had the same problem with her. She would be the last one in at night, and eventually, since we didn't realize what was happening, the skunks got her. Since then we've been keeping tabs on our birds, we often go out and make sure they get to bed, and if a...

I'll Definitely try that! Thank you so much!

Trying to get our chickens to go in their coop! Frusturating

I don't think you need to bring your chickens indoors, if thats what you're asking. We just made sure our coop was secured. Skunks, raccoons, and foxes are all really sly and can fit through small spaces. It doesn't look like your chickens were harmed at all which is good. But if you let your...

We got chickens about two months ago and we moved them about 3 weeks ago from a small box to a large house to live/sleep in. For some reason they won't go into the large house at night, and sometimes they wait for us to shoo them in. Usually they get in, and we keep a light on for a bit just so...

We had chickens that got attacked by skunks. Often times, the skunks wouldn't harm them, but would come back after it terrorized them a bit. I would assume that It'll come back, the chickens should be fine as long as they're caged in securely