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Hi! We have 9 chickens and one of them is a polish chicken with a big bald spot on the top of her head that keeps getting biger. Is there anything we can do to stop the other chickens from hurting her? It looks so painful! And when they pull the feathers out, she doesn't stop them, she just sits...

our almost year old chicken started laying on the ground, when i go out to check on her she springs up and runs away, but when i leave she is laying on the ground sideways again. is this normal or concerning?

what are everyone best egg tips? we live in utah and it is very cold so if we don't collect the eggs soon after they are layed they freeze and sometimes crack. how do we stop this? can we still eat the eggs that have been frozen? i have also heard it is bad to wash eggs but there is almost...

we currently have 2 chickens, and only one has started laying. She lays them on the ground in the corner of the coop instead of the nesting box. how should i get her to stop laying it there and use the nesting box instead?

we have a easter egger, and a silver laced wyendotte that we got around may 6th right about when they were born. (we used to have 5 chickens but 3 of them are roosters and our neighborhood doesn't allow that). they are both old enough to lay, but they don't. are they sick? is something wrong?

nooooooo! we got 5 chickens, and three of them ended up being cockerels, leave us with two chickens, a easter egger and a wyendotte. would it be ok to keep them? in the spring we would get more chickens, and they wouldn’t be lonely anymore.

guesses on gender? 16 week old silkie, we had two and the other was a loud crowing male, and we already had to get rid of it.

there are two of our chickens, a silkie and a bared rock. We are 99% sure the silkie is a guy because we heard what we think is crowing coming from it and the bared rock looks exactly like a rooster. please let me know if you think these are actually roosters because we are about to give them to...

we have our food and water containers hanging in the run from the hardware cloth. i was trying to take it off and broke one tiny bit of the wire where it was hanging, and i just moved it to another square hole nearby to hang from. is there a way to seal the small break in the wire?

my girls are just about start laying eggs next month, so they have gone through a few molts, and there are feathers everywhere. what is the best way to clean them up? picking them up takes forever because they are small and everywhere in the run!

our yard doesn’t have a fence and we have lots of raccoons. Is it normal to let our chickens out during the day right now they just stay in their coop and run, mostly in their run. I’m a little bit worried for our chickens because they could run away or something else could get in. Should we let...

what are the best container to use to hold this two things? i can’t find anything to see what people do normally. is it just in a parrot cup? or some other container? what is the beta container to buy that has two compartments for each, or two separate container?

barfhow do you keep wasps and spiders from living in the chicken coop? i live in utah where there are lots of both. there is already a wasp nest in a little bin where we put shaving and food, and there are a few strands of spider webs that i got rid of with the hose, and it has only been built...

our 10 week old chickens who live outside sometimes poop on the ground, but today i saw a weird looking poop that is a lot warmer in color, liqudy, and smell HORRIBLE! idk why it is, but i think it is just one chicken with that kind of poop. is it bad? will it change?

we have five chickens who are ten weeks old, and they are very skitterish. they live outside in the coop, without any other chickens. Once they are picked up they love it. They let you pet them and hold them when they’re on the ground. They are scared of you though, and always run away from you...

My silkie is about 10 weeks old, and some of her feathers aren't fluffy like the rest! Her wing and feet feathers are waxy and look like normal feathers. Why is this, and is there anyway to make it fluffy?

our 9-10 week old chickens go in the coop in their own at night, and there are no other chickens. they always look scared and huddle in a pile. one of them tries to go between the others legs all the time. why do they do this?

we have a waterer that fills the little cups with water, and our chickens keep getting dirt in it! how did they do it and how do we stop it? did they bring dirt in or on their beak and get it in the water? did they somehow kick it into the water? i’m not sure how it happened or how to stop it...

is 1 inch holes in hardware cloth to big? we are deciding on what size to buy for the apron around our chicken coop.

Any guesses on genders? Edna the white silkie and Nova the grey americana are 7 weeks, the rest are 6 weeks #1Edna the white silkie #2 Chew “bach” a the black silkie #3 Nova the grey americana #4 Bach Obama the plymouth rock #5 Fancy Nancy the silver laced wyendotte they are all super cute...