1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
6-7 years ago I adopted my first three chickens.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
19! Chicken math is exponential!
(3) What breeds do you have?
Mille fleur duccle, banty frizzle, banty Cochin, Easter eggers, Welsummers...
I have a hen I hatched last spring, and she has not been able to poop on her own for several days. I thought at first she may have been egg bound, so I put on a glove and checked her cloaca, feeling nothing- when I pulled out my finger (a short 2”) a load of stinky (not broody, though) poop...