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I am looking for opinions. In the last 3 months, I have lost 19 hens and I have no clue how. I thought it was a fox because I have seen a fox near the coop but now I'm not so sure. My coop is in an area that is wooded behind it but open into our yard in the front. The woods themselves aren't...

I have 23 eggs in my incubator right now - most of which are on day 15. I weighed/candled them today and I'm concerned about one egg in particular. It started out well but it has lost a lot more weight than any of the other eggs. I can still see the chick moving about inside but I'm concerned...

I've looked online and checked everywhere - I think I have an egg on day 9 that is just a blood ring but I'm not totally sure. Opinions? I noticed on day 4 or so that the vein appeared to be stuck to the shell and much darker than the rest of my eggs - it was much smaller then, probably a...

Meet Nugget. I'm worried about his comb & wattles. This is my first winter with chickens and I'm not quite sure what is wrong with him or what to do about it. It was very cold last week so I'm thinking maybe he got some frostbite - even though I did run the heat lamp for the two days it was...

I went out this afternoon to collect eggs (for like the tenth time today, as usual) and I noticed my head rooster, Nugget, was missing huge chunks of feathers on both sides of his neck. I'm very worried about what happened to him. All of my flock was in their enclosed run(top, sides and...

I'm not sure what is up with my EE Midge but I caught her laying her egg on the coop floor this afternoon - when no one else was in any of the nesting boxes. This is the third day this week that it has happened. She has been laying for a few weeks now and up until this week, has always used...

I thought I had one thing - then another - but I just don't know. I have 4 of these - I'm pretty sure all 4 are cockerels - although I'm not sure about one. I did see a roo attempt to mount it one day. I need to figure it out soon. I've got 4 roo's I need to get to the butcher - but I feel...

I grabbed this little lady from my kids school - I loved her because she was the "runt" and well......in the three weeks I've had her, she hasn't gotten any bigger. She is now the same size as my 3 week old barred rock's...... I'm kind of worried about her. She is about 8 weeks old and just...

My husband and I (mostly me since I am a lot handier than he is - nothing wrong with that though - I'm the one with all of the ideas too!) have been working on this for about 3 weeks so far - we still have a bunch of work to do - but the ladies (and gentlemen) are spending their first night in...

My husband surprised me one day with 4 Buff's and 4 other chicks.....they were all straight run from TS (which is why I didn't buy them when I was there earlier in the day). 2 of my buff's are roos - maybe even a third out of the four he brought home. Now I'm trying to figure out what kind the...

I have read through the threads and just can't seem to figure out a couple of my chickens.....the EE's are so confusing to sex! I want to start thinking about weeding out my flock - I really only want to keep one rooster - but I'm fairly certain that I have at least 3 in my flock of 29 right...