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Hello my chicken friends! Need your help again. I just hatched 5 blue ameraucanas and the last one to hatch seems to have some sort of crooked leg. I've seen people splint splayed legs and crooked toes, but not something like this. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hello all! I'm writing from Lusaka, Zambia where I am doing some work for 3 weeks at a center that educates women and teaches them to sue. One of the projects I'm working on is a building a chicken coop and teaching the caretaker the basics of raising chickens, which I am very excited about...

So I have 5 backyard chickens. They are 6 months old. I let them out of the coop in the morning and they roam my backyard all day and head back into there coop at dusk... or that's what they used to do at least. For the past few of weeks they've been waiting longer and longer to head back to...

So I was cleaning chicken poo out of the coop today. The floor of the coop is a mixture of sand and Sweet PDZ. As I was raking the poo towards the middle to scoop out I noticed these slinky looking strains of something. They were clumped together and I knew it wasn't chicken poo. I pulled...

So my EE laid her first egg today! She scratched all the pine shaving out of the nesting box, which I think resulted in this slight cracking on the top of the egg. I've since changed the bedding to a mixture of pine straw and shavings. Hopefully that will help. My question though, does all...

I've searched the Internet and this blog, but can't seem to find a clear answer... Are chicken fleas and dog fleas the same thing? My dog, who never has fleas, has been getting them from the backyard where the chicken roam. So I'm wondering if my chickens are being bothered by the fleas...

I have a chicken (Delaware) who has a toe on each foot that seems to bend in an odd way. I notice some of my other chicken's toes that will do this sometimes, but not near as much as my Delaware. I've noticed this since she was a few weeks old. Is this a problem? I have a friend who said...

My wife and I are new to raising chickens, although we’re not new to spoiling pets! :) We have 5 chicks, an easter egger, 2 barred rocks, a barnevelder, and a delaware. They are two weeks old. The first couple days after their arrival we let them adjust to the brooder. Since then we’ve been...

I'm completely new to chickens, but very excited! Building my coop with a run next month, and I've done a TON of research on this website (super helpful!), but my novice chicken brain has a question... Does there need to be food, water, and roosting poles in the run or just in the coop? Are...

Hey everyone! After spending hours on this website learning about chickens, I thought I should go ahead and join the community! I'm completely new to chickens, so I know this forum will be helpful! I plan to build my own coop this January (stupidly excited about that), and buy my chicks...