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I let my hen go broody and she has been pretty faithful. Tried candling a couple eggs, but it looks like there is a large mass on one side and an air sac on the other end. We are only at about day 10. She was off them for a few hours one day when I did not see her get on the wrong nest, but...

Hey! Can anyone tell me what causes this??

Ok, so one of my hens has decided to lay on about six eggs, and while I discouraged broodiness all winter, it is now mid-march and I figured, well heck, let her give it a try. We have a dozen nesting boxes in the henhouse, 15 hens and two roos. I am dreadful with dimensions, but I would say the...

Hello all! I found one of our hens mouth breathing and really rasping when she took a breath. We isolated her, took her to the vet (OUCH! $$$) and he put her on Baytril, and very expensive and hopefully useful antibiotic. I thought she had pneumonia, but he feels it is much higher up, in her...

So it is Oct. 9, and since my last post the girls (16 of them with two roos to inspire them) are laying an average of a dozen eggs a day. Which is wonderful. But today I went out, collected 12, and one girl was sitting on top of some eggs in one of the nesters. Now, as much as I really wanted a...

22 weeks old and got our first egg this morning. I made sure to go out and thank the girls with extra attention and some blueberries! YAY!

Any advice on over wintering? We live in Radium BC, have a November to March winter. Doesn't usually get horrifically cold... and the coop is insulated and we have a heater in there. But during the cold months, when they cannot range quite as much, am I looking at issues I should prepare for now?

So we are feeding our chooks (Rhode Island Reds) non-GMO barley, wheat and hemp feed. Now that we are closer to laying, we are adding some oyster shell to their once per day wet feed. They will be 21 weeks on Monday Aug 27. I have to say, we have had no issues at all with picking at all, and I...