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We have 6 chicks about 6 weeks old. Nearly fully feathered. Their segregated area is rather small at this point. Mama has been a very good mama but today she has taken to pecking at them all..... Is she done mothering???? I put her out with the adults. Maybe she just wants some grown-up time????

Hi All, I currently have A Swedish Flower Hen rooster and two SFH hens, also a Salmon Faverolles, and several other that lay very similar colored eggs. Short of sitting in the coop all day to monitor nestboxes and ladies who find it amusing to get in one box, sit a spell then move to...

I am not a newbie with chicks but I recently acquired an 8 week old Silver Laced Polish. She was in a group before coming to me and she only weighs 9 oz and is very thin. SHe has had some of tips of her feathers bitten off, so I am not sure if she had difficulty getting to the food. She was...

Hi Al, One of my hens has twice now dropped (I say that because it was with her poop and not in the box) a very strange looking thing. Both times, it is the size of a small grape, irregularly shaped, pink color, and rather layered when I cut it open. No shell material. She is not...

Yesterday, we found this where one of the girls sleeps. She has not been laying as was sickly for a while. There was no shell, and no white around it.

My handsome leghorn roo boy, who is about 3, has the crap beat out of him several days ago by a neighbors' feral roo. Fortunately I caught him before he got too beat up, but he was laying on the ground and the other roo was pummeling his head. Truth told, my roo does not fare so well in these...