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Green Bean has been out of it for a week now. Her four flock mates and she just turned three and they are feisty and laying prolifically but lately Green Bean has been groggy and sluggish as if sick but the others are just fine. Her comb shrunk. She eats and drinks but sometimes but not every...

Sky has been limping for a week. One leg she can’t put any weight on but she is drinking and eating and slowly learning to sort of get around. I had a vet tech near me do total body assessment and did not find any broken bones and we are hoping it’s just soft tissue (possible predation attempt...

What is the case for sex linked crosses for laying hens? I *did* search the forums before asking this if someone wants to direct me to some reading etc. I found a lot of nuisances about things people like about a particular cross and obviously they are easier to sex when hatched 👍 Cornish Rock...

These ladies have been champs, FAR exceeding expectations for egg production. I have had 9 eggs a day from 9 white leghorns almost daily with maybe 1 or two days a week I will get 8. And they are almost always done laying by 9am. So it makes this next part that much more puzzling. With no...

My Melodramatic Pep Talk guys I am new. I know I need a better feeding system to keep the snow off their food. I am doing my best with my very first flock but for now I submit this for purely entertainment purposes!!

So this is Lemon: It's just after sunset and I am trying to count all of my nine pullets and only getting to 8 and then I find Lemon downstairs sitting on these eggs. I took away the ones there and she retreated back to the other nest box where I left her for the night, I think she wants to...

Should I be concerned for the well-being of my Late Bloomer? And for the flock as a whole? My flock of nine White Leghorn hens seem happy and healthy at 22 weeks and are producing an average of half a dozen eggs daily, mostly laid right in two of the three nest boxes in the coop. But while...

Please, tell me they get quieter after they have laid their first half dozen eggs? I have nine hens 21.5 weeks old. White Leghorns. The first egg came with a lot of noise about two weeks ago. The daily quantity slowly increased with the noise. Yesterday I had seven eggs. And the racket has...

I have nine leghorns aged eleven weeks and my first flock. I am also a photographer. Building my back yard coop now and thankful for this resource!