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I am a newbie at all this and have been reading about how most people cull or butcher their chickens after one or two years due to declining egg volume. Then I read where chickens can lay eggs for up to 10 to 20 years. So I have a few questions. Do most folks start over with a new flock after...

Thanks for the input. We have a friend coming over tonight to take 4 hens plus the rooster. It will be fun to see how the remaining flock responds.

The time honored tradition that works seems to be to put golf balls around the area. The snake thinks its an egg, eats it and chokes to death. I haven't needed to do it yet but have been told by 3 different people that it works.

Thanks for the input. We will follow these recomendations. She has been seperated for a day now and is looking better back there already with some cleaning and ointment.

We have 10 hens, a guinea and a large RIR rooster all less than 7 months old. Their liviing quarters are a 4x5 coop, and a 8 x 16 run attached. We free range them for about a half hour each day, then back to the pen. We got them from a family that kept them in a bit larger area but had to...

It felt soft when we applied the water and iodine. When they are being pricked at like that, do they tend to sit so they can't be poked at anymore? We also noticed her comb is leaning over to one side now. We have 10 hens, a guinea and a rooster. They have a large 8x16 run but a small coop...

We have a hen that is just sqatting around. I posted earlier but now have a pic to show. She gets up for a little bit then just squats for hours. When we returned from vacation yesterday, we noticed the rooster was mating her a lot and keeping her in the coop. We have seperated her from the...

We got back from a few days of vacation to find one of our hens just squatting on the ground and not wanting to move. The rooster tried to mate her several times and we shooed him off. She will get up and move a little then just squats back down. Her legs look OK and the wings all look right...