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My 30-week-old hen, was just out in the yard draining and the other chickens were following her around and all of a sudden she pushed out a soft-shelled egg. She walked away slowly and stopped and started straining again and the chickens again were following her and she pushed out another...

The last couple days my rooster has had a lot of poop hanging from his vent, I finally caught him and soaked them in a warm bath of Epsom salt and cleaned him up but his vent was dripping blood. I don't know what that is what caused it or what can I do

I need to know how to tell males from females.

I went into the barn after work as always and I always count my chickens and roosters. I was missing someone? the rooster was not visible and that it strange, he is always front and center with the other rooster. I looked and found him under the coop which is about 3 feet off the ground inside...

So I went into the barn one day it was rather cold but not freezing temps, I saw one of my older chicks(2 years old) standing alone and she was all puffed out, i noticed her comb was very pale and the first thing i thought was that she was cold, so i wrapped her up in my jacket and carried her...

Does anyone know what breed of chicken this is? No one seems to know and i just went to the new York State fair and there were hundreds of roosters but none like this.

So I heard that sand is great in the coop, my coop is 10x10 feet in the barn and off the ground by 2 and 1/2 feet. i was told to use all purpose sand not play sand so I did. I made a scoop out of a pitchfork and hardware wire, it totally did not work, i then got a big kitty litter scoop and...

Just want to say I am so grateful for joining back yard chicken club. i started raising chickens 18 months ago. i started with six and then my husband bought me 8 more for this last Easter. Out of the 8 I got 3 roosters which one I gave to a good home. After giving the rooster away thinking...

One of my hens always has feathers sort of messed up on the front of her on her chest, I saw a graph that shows areas of concern and it was saying some thing about a hard crop, does anyone have pictures of this. What should i do for this if in fact that is what is going on with her and how do I...

I have some 12 week old chicks that my husband got me for Easter and I have 6,1 year old hens. I put the chicks in the coop in a separate pen so that could be observed but not touched. About 4 weeks ago I started to put them out in separate runs so they again could be close and seen but not...

So I have had my chicks in my dinning room in a pack and play till the weather got nicer and they were old enough and had their feathers to go to the barn to join and meet my big girls. It has been a nightmare already. I put the little girls in a dog create to put in the middle of the coop...

Is it ok to feed my chicks rabbit pellets for a day? I can not get to the store to buy them more food until tomorrow, I made them some oatmeal and managed to get out to the field and got them some ears of corn which I really do not like to feed them.

So I got my chicks in march and they have been laying since they were 17 weeks old, will they molt this year? and if so is there any thing special I am suppose to do to make it easier for them and do I change there food or any thing. I am a first timer.