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I have a similar question. What did you end up doing? In my situation I have a small flock that has been dwindling... one is too old to lay anymore, one died a few days ago and I am left with only 4 hens now. So I have been looking into getting more chicks and found a breed I really love and...

I wanted to post an update on what happened as it may help others. What we ended up doing is we brought the babies inside for just 2 nights and it ended up separating the maternal bond. It was heartbreaking at first because the mom kept looking around for the babies and was clearly upset. But...

I am not an expert at all... having done chickens only for about a year and a half. We've lost 3 hens to being egg bound. One confirmed by the vet. In all the cases the hens stopped eating and was clearly not feeling well. My understanding is that you can feel the eggs and a hardness in the...

Barkersbirds, Has she already been laying and this is a break in her laying?

We have 4 Black Copper Maran chicks that are 5 weeks old from a hen who decided to set outside the coop where we couldn't get to her. We were able to catch them and have had them separated from the rest of the flock for the past 4 weeks. But they ran out of room so we decided to put the chicks...

Thank you Bobbi-J!

We free range our chickens (5 hens of varying types and one black copper maran rooster). Our one black copper maran hen has always had issues with laying outside the coop but we could usually find them and stop her laying in each area we found. Now we know she is sitting on some eggs in an...

I free range mine during the day usually and they are often out in the "sun" or what we can call the sun here... today we had frozen rain and they didn''t have a problem with it! Just fluffed their feathers to get the little rain pellets out... it was kinda cute. I think they are just molting...

Yes, I had been under the impression that it would be easy to see them molting but that doesn't always seem to be the case. The 4 are all the same age and were raised together. So maybe they are molting together. Thanks!

I have 5 hens and one rooster. They were good layers all winter until a few weeks ago when we dropped down to maybe one a day. Now we are not getting any eggs for the past week. Due to re-seeding my lawn I kept them in their coop for 3 days this week and confirmed no eggs (I usually free...

I just wanted to post my experiences as we just lost a chicken to being egg bound and we have the results from the vet who did a mini autopsy. So about a week ago we noticed our Rhode Island Red named Lucy had poop stuck on her rear feathers. I didn't think too much of it,although I did...