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I have a hen, 6 months old and she was limping the last couple of days. Today she will hardly put weight on it at all. I've checked her feet and legs and there are no signs of bumps, cuts, or bruises. All that I notice is that her ankle seems larger than the other when I feel it. It must be...

I have a 21 week old barred rock. She was doing this weird thing with her backend letting it pulsate constantly. Otherwise she was perfectly normal. I was watching her because I suspected egg binding. I am new to chickens and have never seen it before. I was just going off what I had picked...

So I have this barred rock who is 21 weeks old. Two of her companions have started laying this past week. She has been doing the squat for over a week now and frequently visits and sits in the nest boxes...but no egg. I thought from her behavior she would be second to lay. I've noticed for...

Out of the blue about a week ago one of my chickens was closing her eye. I opened her eyelid to see her iris red and a small white dot near the middle. It looked like an injury though I didn't know what. I flushed her eyes out with contact solution and applied triple antibiotic ointment a few...

So it was time to move on from filling the water pan daily so I decided to make a gravity feed waterer. I had just completed a small version for inside the coop using a coleman water thermos turned upside down. It worked perfectly. I think I understand the concept fairly well. You have an...

I'm am at the bottom of my 50lb bag of all flock for my 10 birds. They are all 15-18 weeks old now and should start laying soon. Is it too early to go ahead and put them on layer feed? I know I won't go through another 50lb bag before they start laying.

I was wanting to construct a simple trough to give our chickens kitchen scraps. Given that chickens love to scratch around, I was wondering if its better to just put it on the ground and let them scratch through it. Experiences?.. or am I overthinking this?

New here to posting but been reading a long time. I've gotten so much great info from here. Thanks! So I wanted some white eggs added to our flock and I chose a brown leghorn. Its about 6-7 weeks old but I noticed its feathers starting to darken. It had a big comb early on but that seems to...