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My daughter broke this egg on the floor and the strangest (grossest) thing was inside. Please help, I have searched many site, forums, and books and cannot find a pic like this. Do any of you hen keepers know what this is?

I am feeding her only water with apple cider vinegar, layer feed mixed with warm water, yogurt and apple cider vinegar. Can this get her to clear infection and crop on her own or should Try to tip her upside down and get her to clear it? I have never done this before, this is my first lock.

I have 10 hens that are all laying or starting to lay (they are all 22-24 weeks old). When one goes into to lay, my Maran always stands at the door of the coop and clucks extremely loud. All the others join in. I figured this would happen in the morning when they lay, but this literally...

No major injuries yet. Yet, I want to have some stuff on hand in case there are any injuries as my neighbor has just had with her hens. I don't want to scramble for stuff. Can you seasoned flock keepers tell me the must haves? I have my feed ad DE. I use DE all around to prevent mites and...

So, my 17-20 week hens have started getting pretty noisy to "notify" me if it time to let them out of their coop/run into my backyard at sunrise. I promptly get out of bed and do their bidding. However, this was soon not enough. I scattered a little scratch for them a few mornings. Within a...

I was moving some things into my shed. I leaned a roll of hardware cloth on the shed which accidentally fell. The hens follow me everywhere when I'm in their fenced area since I am the "purveyor of all things delicious.". The roll fell on some hens and my 4 month old Russian Orloff is now...

I went out to check on my chicks this afternoon and every sing,e one of them has the exact same fresh bleeder where the comb meets the beak. I have raised these 7-10 seekers all together without any problems. They are out in the coop with a small enclosed run accessible during the day. I put...