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We had a broody hen and my neighbor gave us some possibly fertilized eggs. One hatched today but we think the broody might have mites. When my husband was checking for the hatched chick, he felt something crawling on his arm and found teeny tiny (smaller than a pin head) things crawling on his...

Hens will be a year old in May and have been laying perfectly fine eggs until today when my husband sent me a picture of an egg laid in the roost poop tray that had a soft shell. All of our chickens have been laying normal eggs with no problems, We did notice that our Barred Rock had a clump...

We got our first egg, or eggs. The hens were all born around the beginning of May 2021 so they all are about 5 months old give or take a week. I went into the coop yesterday morning and found two eggs in the poop tray right below the roosting bar. I'm not sure which one laid them, but what was...

Our little cross beak Nutmeg is almost 16 weeks old. She “threw up” on me tonite. From research, I know chickens don’t actually throw up but she has difficulty eating anyway and we are concerned about this new problem. The chickens free range in an enclosed pen and have access to the run as...

One of our 8 week old Easter Eggers has cross/scissor beak so we are keeping a good eye on her. It almost seems like her bottom lip (beak) is paralyzed, like she has no control over it. She seems to be eating ok, we feed her from a typical hanging poultry feeder and make sure that the feed is...

Hello everyone. I am a new member and we just started raising our flock. We moved to 8 acres in the country 18 months ago and we will retire here. Our chickens are about 6 weeks old and we are just finishing up building the chicken coop and are excited to get them into their new home.....and...