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My main instrument is accordion, but I also play guitar and mandolin, and write tunes on those instruments tinker around on the banjo and fiddle, but only at home. I learned a really wide range of music growing up learning accordion, and listening to my grandparent's and parent's music, Played...

Braveheart pretty much did a full molt, I made sure she had a good diet. She is back to looking like herself with nice new fluffy feathers, and getting back to asking for lap time.

yes, Actively dropping lots of feathers. No, I don't use supplemental lighting. I want them to do what is natural for them.

Does anyone else here in the Northeast have any chickens that are molting, in January, in 30 degree weather?

Thanks everyone for replies, I have done most of everything recommended, other than the ducolax or molasses.

I read in one of the articles about sour crop that ducolax can help with in impacted crop, I have a chicken who has lost wait and strength with a bout of sour crop. My question is, she's headed in the right direction now but struggled to poop. Will ducolax help? I probed her vent and didn't...

At first I didnt notice, but, Yes, there was a wet spot.. That was my first thought, but it seemed like such a perfect fit, I couldn't imagine that being the case. I was a little worried about where the missing part of the shell went, but all the birds acted fine and they all laid an egg today...

I found this in the nest box along with the other eggs. There was more, but I peeled some off to investigate. Has anyone experienced this before? When I cracked it open, there is nothing out of the ordinary

We spend a lot of time just sitting nearby, talking, holding, and singing at night to the birds when they are on the roost. The Buffs and the Easter Egger love sitting in our laps.

They can be so funny. When one of my Buffs was first starting to lay, I found her trying to squeeze into a 12x12 nest box that already had two Australorps in it. Needless to say, it was quite a circus.

I started keeping bees 18 years ago, and I've been wanting chickens for about as long. I finally got some 2 years ago in April. I love having them.

My buffs are hair nibblers as well

My Mazie clucks a lot while being held. We have many good conversations.

I have two Buff Orpingtons that will be a year old around April 15th, and I totally Love them. One is named Mazie, for the Amazing Chicken, and the other is named Braveheart, be cause when we introduced them to the flock, she went right up face to face with one of the Australorps in all her...

I have 3 Australorps from spring 2021. In 2022 I got 2 Buff Orpingtons and an Easter Egger chick. It has been interesting to see one of the buffs Braveheart, who used to burrow under the other, Mazie, on the roost and sleep that way, get rejected when Mazie was first of the three to start laying...