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Unfortunately I am giving my chickens away, I know it won’t be long before I am itching for more, is there anything special I need to do to "winterize" the coop if there are no chickens? or anything I should do to the run while there are no chickens to make sure it is in good shape for future hens?

I’m pretty sure I have an egg eater because I have seen a significant drop in the number of eggs I’m getting. The problem is I’m not home during the day to collect the eggs right away. This also means I’m not home to watch and see who is eating the eggs. Any suggestions?

I have 4 chickens that area about 1 year 7 months and 6 that are about 7 months, I never had a problem with the older chickens and when the young ones first started laying then had no problem either, but right around day light savings and when It started getting colder they started laying...

I have 7 hens who free range, I never had problems with them laying in the nesting boxes until about 2 weeks ago. My boyfriend found a couple eggs in the woods and I figured that maybe they were just too far from the boxes and didn’t make it back, then I went from getting 6-7 eggs a day to a few...

I have 8 chickens - 9 month old, and one of my Dominique chickens seems sick, she is smaller than the other chickens, her comb seems smaller than the other Dominique and her comb and waddle look pale. My boyfriend thought he felt a lump in her throat but I couldn’t feel it. Non the less I was...

yesterday after work I noticed that one of my hens was quiet and isolated from the rest of the group, she was standing still for a long time and as I approached her she squatted and laid an egg right in the middle of the yard. She immediate turned around and pecked at it...it has a really under...

I have 8 hens all about 22 weeks old, I know at least a few of them are laying as Im getting aprox. 5 eggs each day. But I can't tell if they have all started to lay. Should I be getting 1 egg a day for each hen? I have: 2 road Island Reds (I've seen them lay) 2 Cinnamon queen 2 Golden Lace...

Right now I have a 2 gallon feeder that I bought from a supply store but I would like to make a larger one so I don't have to refill so often, I've seen a bunch of ideas on the feeder, but I was wondering if the feeder needs to be in the coop or can I just have it in the run? so far I've had it...

I have 8 hens and they free range, I noticed one of them in the coop making a lot of noise by her self, I noticed there was what looked like and undeveloped egg but the later that day The same hen was back in there and when I went out to check there was a little egg. that was 2 days ago and now...

A few of my chickens have black dots on their comb and Waddles. It is just a dot right now it doesn't look like what they are showing in the pictures of Avian Pox, but I wonder if its just the beginning. I'm going to try to figure out how to post a picture, but for now does any one have any ideas?

This is my 1st year with chickens and I have been loving it. I have 8 pullets and a cockerel and I have been hearing all kinds of good things about Guinea fowl, mostly that they eat ticks. I wanted to find out if they will get along with my other chickens? will they be ok with the rooster? I...

How old will my chickens be when they start to lay? How long will they lay?

This is my 1st year raising chickens and so far it has been awesome!!! But over the last few weeks one of my chickens won’t roost in the coop at night and roosts in a nearby tree, so I have to climb the tree and put him in the coop. it’s a pain but it wasn’t that bad till the last few days there...

This is my first time raising chickens. I have 9 chickens of all different varieties about 15 weeks old. Is there anything I should be doing at this time to prepare them for Laying? I keep seeing people talking about golf balls in the nesting boxes, do I need to change their diet, do I need a...

my boyfriend rescued 2 baby wood ducks right around the same time that I got my 1st chickens. I had been raising my chickens for 2 weeks when we got the ducks and they seem to be about the same age. Now my chickens are about 8 weeks old and the ducks and chickens are living happily together, but...