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One of our favorite brown leghorn hens has not been acting like herself lately. Usually, she's super excited to be outside and runs back and forth by the door trying to get out, but now she's just standing still and slowly moving. We offered her some treats, but she just stared at it while the...

We've been looking for new chickens to add to our flock, have been considering Rhode Island Reds and Australorps, and came across the golden comet: I've seen they lay lots of eggs, are pretty friendly... has anybody had any experience with these chickens and are they good chickens for beginner...

It all started when the store we bought our chicks from gave us the WRONG chicks. We ordered eight rhode island reds, and instead got eight brown leghorns. We live close to a city, and although our backyard is pretty big, we were not prepared to have brown leghorns. As soon as we moved them...

I have 8 chickens, who are pretty bored and mad for most of the day. They really love scratching outside, but we don't let them free range unless we watch them because there are a TON of hawks around. In the time that they aren't free ranging, what can we do to distract them and make them...

One of my chickens is missing all of her feathers (fluff, I guess not really feathers) on her butt... The chickens peck each other a lot, we've been trying to stop it, but I'm not sure if they are pecking her there... what is happening?

I'm using a heat lamp for the first time because its going to be like -6 degrees outside... the only thing that worries me is that if it falls to the ground it might burn the chicken coop... or maybe it's too cold for fire to even be started? Any advice for how I can make sure nothing bad...