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  1. ChickenLady2012

    Yellow bubble in corner of hens left eye..... Please help!!

    This morning I noticed a yellow bubble in the corner of my hen Olive's eye. I'm not sure if this is an infection due to a small scratch or something more serious like eye worm. ivermectin was recommended online for an eye dewormer, however I'm nervous about about taking online advise. I just...
  2. ChickenLady2012

    Found mystery chicken on my property... Rooster or hen? What breed is it? I need to rehome if it's a

    About two weeks ago a chicken showed up outside my property fence. When we let the "stranger" onto the property it found interest in our chicken, our flock was out free ranging. My husband told me that the stranger stuck his head into the run and my rooster Chuck, and the stranger chicken were...
  3. ChickenLady2012

    12 week old chickens, when can they mingle with my existing adult flock?

    I currently have (4) 12 week old chicks and an already existing flock consisting of 1 RIR rooster, 1 Black austrolorp hen, and a RIR hen.... at what point can my two flocks mingle together ? The big chickens have a nice large coop and free range on our 2 acres,currently the little ones are...
  4. ChickenLady2012

    8 week old chicks living in my dinning room, big enough to be moved to thier coop?

    I currently have (4) eight week old chicks that appear to be fully feathered and completly bored in thier brooder box inside my dinning room. We have recently been taking them out to thier coop/run in the day times weather permitting but they haven't spend a night in it yet. I took them off the...
  5. ChickenLady2012

    labored breathing and pulsating vent = dead chicken in the morning :(

    I had a RIR named mystery that was appearently displaying odd signs for a day or two before she pasted this morning.... Last night while my flock was free ranging the yard I noticed mystery had her mouth slightly open and her breathing how heavy.... i noticed that her vent was pulsating ALOT...
  6. ChickenLady2012

    my black australorp is going to be naked soon......moulting????

    I have a 17mo old black australorp that recently ( 1 1/2 weeks) started to loose ALOT of her feathers.... she has been broody in the past so missing feathers from her belly wasn't anything that surprised me but my family went away for the weekend (we had a chicken sitter) and when we returned...
  7. ChickenLady2012

    Hens having been hiking thru the blackberry bushes...

    My hens recently started laying eggs in a shrub on front of my house on the manicured part of our property, but noticed as of yestetday they have been exploring the unfence area of our property that's covered with blackberry plants... They crawl pretty far into them and when I go looking I have...
  8. ChickenLady2012

    Laying eggs in my shrubs

    I have three hens (2 rir, 1 australorp) all three of them have just recently started to lay in a long shrub/ bush in front of my house, my kids found the secret nest after we hadn't gotten any eggs in the nesting box for a few days... My girls have been really regular about laying in there...
  9. ChickenLady2012

    HELP.......I'm a new chicken owner and I think one of my hens is broody!?!?!?

    Hi there..... Im new to the world of raising chickens and need some advise. I have three hens (2 RIR, 1 black australorp) and a RIR Rooster, all one years old. I got my hens about 1.5 months ago and my rooster about 2 weeks ago as my flock gaurdian. After the stress of adding the rooster my RIR...
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