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I have a Jersey Giant hen that looks fine but she seems unsteady on her feet and will only walk a few steps and then sits down like she's sitting on a nest. I've separated her from the flock. She seems to be eating and drinking OK. She's still laying eggs. She's about 4 years old and the other...

I've been using house water to water my chickens. Well after nearly 3 years of hauling water out to their coop, I'm kind of done with it. I'd run a hose out to them but it's at the furthest point in my yard from my out side house water bib. However, it occurred to me that the chickens are always...

I have this EE hen that has only a few times laid an egg with a decent shell on it. I've tried supplementing the feed with oyster shell and with crushed egg shells and it doesn't seem to help her much. Most of the time the shells break in the nest. She once laid and egg with almost no shell...

Any thoughts? She/he's about 18 weeks old.

I'm not sure that I am really new to chicken raising. When I was a kid we had them for a couple of years until the neighbors complained and the city made us get rid of them. But we've only had ours since March. I have 4 EE's and 2 Buff Orpingtons and I'm hoping that I've talked my husband into 4...

I have just started this whole chicken thing this year. We got 10 chicks (5 buff orpingtons and 5 EE's). We lost one to some strange chicken thing and one of out buffs was a rooster and really mean so he went to freezer camp. We decided to cull down to 6 hens. A friend of mine purchased two (a...