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Thanks for all the replys. I'm assuming, although we still have a few inches of snow here in MI, that the hens are getting ready for spring and molting. I haven't seen any predator tracks in the snow around the coop, nothing has changed with their food or surroundings and I'm quite sure their...

We have 20 hens, 6 are two years old and the rest are almost one year old. We have been getting 10-15 eggs per day and then all of a sudden last Friday we got only one egg, the next day two eggs, and yesterday only one egg. What's going on here? Also, another strange thing is tht we have two...

I just looked at my chickens and noticed that many of them had blood on their beaks. The one featherless RIR had blood near her tail feathers. I separated her, now how do I take care of her featherless back and bloody tail feathers? How long should I separate her? Thanks!

My 5 week old RIR has lost her feathers on her back up to the stem part (I haven't looked at what the technical name is yet) and I don't know what the cause of it is or what I should do. I have 13 hens brooding in a rabbit cage right now. The RIR seems to act fine. I haven't seen any pecking of...