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Most of my chickens and my rooster are losing their tail feathers. At first just a few were losing them and I thought they were establishing the pecking order but now all of them are missing tail feathers with raw spots on the area right above the tail feathers. With warm weather coming on I'm...

I would like to know if anyone else has this problem. I work a full time job while my girls are at home free ranging. We rescued these hens from a production house so our eggs haven't been as much as I had hoped with having 32 hens. The most eggs I have gotten in one day was 20 (once). We are...

I am looking for any information on a weed killer that I can use around my chickens. We have a large area that the chickens free range but we also have gravel for the driveway that my husband usually uses commercial weed killer on but since the chickens are roaming free we don't want to use it...

Thanks for the information. I thought that the stress of being in a production house and then unfortunately the week we brought them to our farm the temperatures spiked so I figured it was due to the heat. We have had some really cool days this past week and I have seen an increase in their...

I'm also new to raising chickens and was wondering if anyone can tell me a way to know how old your chickens are. We rescued these chickens from a production farm and was told they are 15 months old which should make them in the peak of their egg producing but out of 37 chickens I'm only...