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So I have my first lavender hen. I got her as a chick from TSC back in June. Lately she has been molting like crazy, way more than the other girls I got around the same time. It honestly looks like something killed another lavender out there because there are just so many feathers. She also is...

My speckled sussex is a little over a year old and I am almost positive she has never laid an egg. It wasn’t until 2 or 3 months ago that she started turning red but she is nowhere near as bright as my other hens. Recently when outside and I’m by the run she will come to a corner near me and...

When I talked to my vet about bringing my chicken back out after an impacted crop she told me about a chicken who was a repeat offender. So much so that after many surgeries they had to keep the chicken off the ground and inside. Has anyone had any success after an impacted crop or did their...

I am working on slowly reintroducing my head hen back to the tiny flock after an injury. The only thing they all seem interested in is figuring out what mesh is. None have tried to attack each other through the mesh. I am having a lot of anxiety about letting her out when shes better. So, does...

I have a quarantined chicken who has been high stepping and has some bald patches. I gave her a dust bath using poultry dust for mites today but it’s my first time using it. In the Spring and Summer, how often should I be powdering the chickens down? How often do I powder the quarantined hen...

So my head hen had an impacted crop and had to get surgery. During that time she also sprained her leg. She has been inside recovering and the more I read about sprained legs I am getting worried about reintroducing her. She was the head hen out of the three and they were all raised together...

Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am new to chickens. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have three chicks! (3) What breeds do you have? I have a very clingy Speckled Sussex Pullet, a sweet Molted Java Pullet, and I can’t remember the breed of my third...

Hey, I have three chicks all a few weeks old, the youngest is maybe 2 weeks. When its time for bed and I turn out the lights and leave my girls chirp so loud. Like screaming until I come back and sit with them and sometimes even hold them. They have access to everything they need they just need...