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My neighbor's dog got into my yard and chased my chicken all over the place. She got herself into a tiny little hole under the house - usually only the chipmunks go in there. She's wedged in really tight - I can just see the tip of her tail. After waiting over an hour to see if she'd come out on...

I live in NW Connecticut and this is my second winter as a chicken keeper. We've had a moderate winter so far, but later this week the prediction is -10 degrees and I'm a bit worried and wonder whether there's anything I should do to protect my flock of eight. Here's my setup: I have two...

Ever since "Penguin" was attacked by a hawk and mostly blinded last winter, she has been bullied by the other girls. It's gotten so bad now that some days she won't come out of the coop - she just stays on the roost. Other days she wiggles herself into a little nook away from the others and just...

Early this year, I took some advice I saw somewhere and built my girls a roosting structure - it's sort of an A frame with slats at various heights, topping out at about six feet. It didn't take long before they started sleeping up there instead of in their coop (we have two, one for last year's...

My olive egger, Olive, squawks her head off for an hour at a time. My neighbors haven't complained yet but I'm waiting for them to - I would! I know part of the reason is she wants to get out of the run - sometimes I let her roam through the garden, but I just planted a lot of new starts and...

Possibly the wrong forum for this thread, if so I apologize. I have 4 year-old hens, and 5 ten-week old babies. One of the babies is supposed to be a bantam silkie. (The others are EE, welsummer and RIR.) Couple of questions. so far the silkie is the biggest of the bunch - could it be a...

I have four year-old chickens, and seven new pullets, about 7 weeks old. My new coop isn't ready so I've been letting the chicks spend the day outside with the other girls, in a separate enclosure but they are right next to each other and can see each other through the chain link - we've been...

I have three possible roos - a brown leghorn (sold as a pullet), an australorp (straight run from TSC) and a bantam silkie (ditto). All approximately 6 or 7 weeks old. What do you think? I know female leghorns have large combs, so hoping she's a girl. The Australorp is very aggressive -...

Too early to move them outside into the coop? The weather is ok now but it might go below freezing again next week. I don't want to use a heat lamp. They seem pretty well feathered out....

The saga of Penguin the Blind Chicken continues (earlier installments below - she survived a hawk attack but is now either 100% or almost 100% blind. After a month in a dog crate in my living room, she's back outside, and while I originally had her separated from the rest of the flock (they were...

Last year, when we got our first chicks, I didn't want to handle them too much - i thought they'd be scared, cold, traumatized, etc we we mostly left them alone. This year it's like the second child where the pacifier falls on the ground - you brush it off and give it back to the baby. We've...

S/he was sold as a silkie... Dark grey feathered feet, three toes in front and a sort of double toe in back. Creamy white all over. The bin also had some with bands of ever- so slight darker yellow brown on the back. Didn't notice the feet on those.

The new babies are in a crate in the living room under a warm red light. they have food and water, are neither too hot nor too cold, and one of them is cheeping nonstop at the top of its little lungs. It's past midnight and nobody is getting to sleep. What's going on and how can we get it to...

I never thought I'd fall victim to chicken math.... We started last spring with six birds...one roo got rehomed, one pullet disappeared (we blame the neighbor's dog): we were down to 4. Got two more (an OE and an EE that turned out to lay brown eggs) from a backyard breeder: up to 6...

Got a batch of chicks yesterday from tractor supply - they couldn't be more than a week old or so (mostly fuzzy but 2 or 3 itty bitty feathers coming in on the wings.) One of them, always the same one, has been letting out a piercingly loud series of cheeps every 5-10 minutes since dawn. The...

My EE, "Penguin" has taken up residence in my living room while she recovers from a hawk attack. She is perfectly fine now except she's totally blind. She's learned to find her food and water, and we intend to gradually reintroduce her to the flock when the weather is nicer. Meanwhile we just...

As mentioned elsewhere, my EE is recuprating after a hawk attack. The vet gave me some pain killer/anti-inflammatory, but I can't figure out how to get her to take it (it's in a little syringe.) Can I force open her beak, and if so, how do I make sure it goes down the right way and she doesn't...

As I've posted elsewhere, my 9 month old EE survived a Cooper's Hawk attack, but is blind. The vet thinks she might get her sight back - that it's cerebral swelling that may go down after a few more days - but for now I need to hand feed her.(Not that she has much appetite.) I'm assuming I...

My little 'Penguin' survived a Copper's Hawk attack yesterday. She was in shock, so she's indoors, warm, getting Nutridrench and VetRX. I realized today that ahe's blind. Our vet knows a lot about chickens and have her an anti inflammatory: she feels she's probably got some cranial swelling and...

She's in a box next to my desk. Sitting there completely traumatized.Able to stand, one wing drooping, one eye closed, no apparent blood. Neck obviously not broken. Anything I can do for her?