Hi - my friend recently got a backyard coop with a dozen chickens. She does not have the time to clean the coop and have asked if I would do it if she pays me. She wants it cleaned 2x/month. How much do you think I should charge her if I were to take up on her offer? She would have all the...
Hi everyone, I noticed that our cream legbar stopped laying eggs a couple of weeks ago and she has gotten extremely skinny. We adopted her so we are not sure of her actual age... She's eating and is walking around normal, so I'm not sure if this is a winter thing or if there's something going on...
hi everyone, i noticed our hen was hobbling after we had a coyote attack. he took her bestie and i think she might have been in the bath when the coyote showed up and might have injured herself while trying to get away. i’m not sure if it’s a cut but i put some hydrogen peroxide on it and it was...
My boyfriend chased a coyote out of our backyard this morning right before he had to go to work. He told me it may have gotten a chicken. I went out and saw that we had a headless chicken in our chicken bath. :( The coyote didn't break the wiring but he stuck his nose/mouth in and tried to yank...
Hi all, I am looking for 2 hens as we had two that just passed away. I saw on the LA shelter website that they have hens for adoption. I was wondering if anyone has adopted before and what their experiences were. Thank you!
Hi all, my two older gals passed away a week apart. Both their crowns were getting speckled white dots on them.
The photo with the chicken in the coop (img 1908) is one of the ones that passed away last week. She puffed herself out and it looked like there was dripping from her nose. The other...
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My name is Gladys and my boyfriend, Nick and I are new chicken parents. We got our chick-a-dees mid-April during the pandemic lockdown. We didn't know this but we were given two mature chickens and two teenage (?) chickens - they were not laying eggs yet and their crowns were...