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This morning at dawn my 2 roasters were attacked. Not a whole lot of feathers but enough. One rooster is completely gone the other is in the corner of my fenced in area without his head. The only evidence is the fence line. Would a dog or Coyote only take the head off? My husband says it was...

My hens were laying soft shells once she week. So I added some calcium to their feed. Now I have a 22 day old egg that has pip'ed once. But the shell is SO hard. I can't even candle it. It's too thick and no light gets through it. Is this gonna be a problem or will it just be a longer hatching...

Ugh! I have too many hens for my zoned property and about 3 weeks ago I noticed one of my hens was sitting. I missed 2 eggs in my daily clean up, did some rough calc's and figured out that she was sitting on them for a week by that time. It's the end of week 3 I'm expecting them any day now...

What is with my rooster lately? Like usual he crows before dawn, which is around 4:30am where I live. But the last 2 days it's been 2am. No other roosters in he area are crowing, which I have listened to them in unison before. No predators...I have heard his crowing around danger and its blood...

Ok, I am a novice at chickens so bear with me if this is a dumb question but I have noticed that 3 of my chickens look like the right side of their front, what would be their breast area, is popped out. Almost lopsided. If I touch it, it seems normal feeling but just looking at the hens you...

My rooster has been picked clean by the hens. He has a few feathers growing back but winter is here and I'm concerned at night he will freeze. Should I risk letting him sleep In the coop with the hens? Will he freeze out in the cold? Gets down into the 40's.

I know my girls are stilll young but I have already lost one to being egg bound and my remaining are only laying one egg every other day sometimes every two days. Is this ok?

shes not straining though. and i just picked her up to see if she had an egg in her. she was fine before i touched her and now she has these symptoms. coincidence?

What the heck? I live in the desert and have tried everything to keep the pigeon and dove out of my coop and out of my chicken feeder. I use a 10 gallon metal feeder that hangs from the ceiling of the coop and every day pigeons fly in and eat out of the feeder. I have an open space where the...

I have one naked neck rooster, 1 1/2 years old that I would like to give to a home that will let him free range. He is a fantastic protector, but I already have one rooster and my flock is small. Too much competition. He is a beautiful bird. Long Red Neck and Face. Long black feathers with...

From what I understand, if an egg gets caught internally and the hen can't "lay" it, this can be deadly. Is this correct? How long would it take to actually kill the hen? For instance, my hens lay in the early afternoon. If I see them in the morning, at dawn and then not again until 5pm...

My heart breaks today. When I opened up the coop this morning at 5am, I found one of my 6 month old hens sitting upright at the front panting heavily. I grabbed my husband and a flashlight and she was just sitting there panting. I figured she was in the process of laying an egg, she just...

At least once a day my Rooster walks around and shakes its head from side to side 2 or 3 times. Is that some sort of behavior I should be able to read? is he showing dominance or that he is about to charge something or do Roosters just shake their heads?

I just feel horrible. I live in Las Vegas, just bought a house in a rural area and got 18 chicks. they were about 9 months old, already laying and when i woke up one morning i found tons of feathers everywhere but no blood or bodies. my 2 roosters didnt make a sound. this was 2 months ago...