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I've noticed yesterday that one of my hen's toes is oddly swollen. It just seems to be the middle portion of her middle toe. She seems to be walking fine, it bends normally, and she doesn't freak out when I touch or put pressure on it (so I guess it doesn't hurt?) Her mood hasn't changed and...

I let out hens out this morning and all of them were acting weird. Usually as soon as I open the run, they all come out and immediately go for the bird feeder. This morning, they all seemed pretty spooked or something. The first one out was one of our welsummers, and she walked pretty slowly...

Another question about our odd little faverolle. All of our hens are past laying age (all the same age too) but when I went to go check on them, I saw the faverolle sitting in one of the nesting boxes (which they haven't touched in a while) Could she be starting to go broody again? Last time...

So, Friday night, we lost one of our hens to a wild animal (we're still not sure what it was, but I bet $5 on bobcat) She was a salmon faverolle and the sweetest girl in our flock. Luckily, the other five hens are alright, but I'll still miss her dearly. After the attack, our second faverolle...

This just started happening recently. Our faverolles (who hasn't had this kind of problem before) is losing feathers on her neck. I'm not sure if the other chickens are picking them off because I haven't seen any of them go after her. There's six and they stay in their coop at night and most of...

One of my Welsummers recently developed bumps on her face and (what looks like) dry skin on her comb. It looks terrible, but she doesn't seem to be in any pain. She's still walking around and doing her chicken things with everyone else like usual. The other chickens don't have this problem...

Our faverolle went broody near the beginning of summer, and now, a few months later, she's still trying to incubate a fake egg. We've tried forcing her off the nest multiple times and dunking her feet and belly in cold water, but she's still determined to hatch something. We dont have a rooster...

This hen has been confusing me ever since she started laying lol We have a dark faverolle that has shown signs of broodiness in the past (even though she turned 1 year old not too long ago) and every time we thought she was broody, she stopped doing all that stuff. But now her behavior's...

I went out to feed my girls mealworms and this one decided to jump up on my lap and help herself! Then when I placed the tub of mealworms on the table, she jumped up to get some: Does anyone else have girls (or guys) who do this?

Chickens are weird, man. Ok so, I understand that a hen will cluck (or even scream) at you when they're going broody and you're just trying to collect eggs. I get that, but one of my favs just laid this morning and when I went out to get it, she made this horrible sounding, loud sound that was...

So, one of our welsummers started molting about a week ago, and I came outside today to find her taking a dust bath. I didnt think anything of it since they were all doing the same thing yesterday, but she's been at this for quite a while (and now she's absolutely covered in dirt and pine...

One of my largest (and shy-est) hens looks like she has some sort or pus pocket in her eye lid. She keeps closing her eye and standing still too: Its barely visible in the picture since the only way I can lure her close to me is by pretending I have treats for them. Does anyone know whats...

This faverolle is just full of surprises- Most of my posts on here have been about her. Anyway, right now, our dark faverolle is on the nesting box. It seemed normal to me, so I started focussing on the others. Then, after a few minutes, I heard a very unpleasant scream coming from the coop. I...

One of our faverolles (who's having a world of problems thrown at her, poor girl) drinks a lot. I've tried to stop this by placing a tub we have outside of the run (we put it in there when temperatures were reaching 90-100°F, but now its winter so there's really no use for it.) There is a bucked...

One of our faverolles just started acting weird. I gave them dried mealworms in our backyard, and of course everyone went for them. The Fav was eating the mealworms, and I noticed something white coming out of her mouth, like she was throwing up. Not only that, she sneezes a lot and constantly...

One of our Favs is picked on... a lot. All of her saddle feathers are gone as well as her "beard" feathers. Is there anything I can get to treat her? I've heard blue-kote works, but I wanted to see of there was anything else in case we couldn't get it.

Just a video I took of my girls telling me what's on their minds. They hadn't laid yet today, so I guess that was why (at least for the dark faverolle, the other crows all the time) Video:

Oh boy, another post. I just got home from school and made myself something to eat. Outside I saw one of the Welsummers being chased by the other hens while holding something large in her beak. I went out, grabbed her and took the cracked, empty egg that she was holding. I knew it was from a...

Oh boy, another post. I just got home from school and made myself something to eat. Outside I saw one of the Welsummers being chased by the other hens while holding something large in her beak. I went out, grabbed her and took the cracked, empty egg that she was holding. I knew it was from a...

Our Faverolle is on the nest right now (I just filled up their suet cage with Cauliflower leaves and I was watching them destroy it) and she just screamed out of nowhere. I've never seen her do this before. So far she's only done it once, but I still wanna know why she did it to begin with...