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For the past week, we've had one chicken who won't go inside. Everything is clean, no bugs (that I can see), no predators and she isn't the lowest in the order, so I'm not sure what is happening. Maybe she just likes the warm summer nights? We have an electric door and at first, I was going out...

I went out this morning and one of my girls is not well. She came to me and pooped the grapes I gave them last night...almost intact as if she hadn't digested them. She's sitting in the shade and about every 3 seconds her head is twitches like if a fly landed on your head...quick twitch every 3...

I've posted a little but wanted to say hello here, too. I'm from Texas and we have 5 hens. Used to be 6 but they got rid of one of themselves the 2nd day we moved them into their house. We have 2 Easter eggers (Rossi and Chandler), 2 barred rocks (Phoebe and Joei) and 1 buff orpington (Rachel)...

I appreciate the responses to my question about free ranging. But now I have a different problem. One of my hens is bullying the others. She's pecking at them and I'm pretty sure the reason for all the feathers and egg laying has slowed/stopped for the other hens. If I separate her in a cage...

We have 5 chickens that have a 20 x 30 pen with a big house inside. They've spent their first year inside and we're thinking about letting them free range. We have 30 fenced acres. If we open the pen doors so they can go out, will they return home each night?