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One of my hens started laying eggs with these brown/white lumps in them a few months ago. Does anyone know what they are and/or why they are present. It's kind of an appetite killer every time I crack an egg open and see it...

One of my hens has a bunch of feathers missing on her neck and on a bump on her chest. Is that bump just her crop? Is she molting or do you think she has something else going on? We don't have a rooster so I know that's not the issue. Also, while you're looking... does anyone happen to have...

I thought only one wing needs to be clipped? I will try to get a picture up, but I may not have a chance for a few days. We tried to clip the first 10 feathers all the way down to where the shorter feathers grow (really technical - I know). We have one bird who even flew up to the top of our...

We clipped our chickens' wings and one of them is still getting out of the run. We have the wire nearly 6 ft high. The coop itself is right next to the edge of the run and I'm wondering if she is jumping up on the door of the coop and then over the rest of the wire. I can't close the coop...

Thanks for the input! I tried hosing it off and that helped - it didn't get all the hay stuck in between both levels of wire, but it did get a lot of the poop, which is my main concern. Thanks again!

She's never had them before - I'll give it a try and see if it works though. Thank you!

Any tips on how to coax a scared chick out from under a large deck? One of my chicks has always been terrified of people and today she ran out of her coop and under our deck... now she's just stuck under there and it's too low to the ground for me to go under there myself (not that I would be...

Does anyone have tips on how to really clean a coop with a chicken wire floor? It is a layer of chicken wire on top of a layer of hardware cloth and tons of poop and hay seems to just get stuck in between. I even tried pulling it out by hand (with gloves) and it wasn't doing much. Any tips...

My pest control company advised me to sprinkle chili powder around the edges of my deck and shed (it's elevated off the ground) to deter rodents. My chicken coop will also be elevated with a chicken wire floor lined with straw. I am worried about rodents going underneath and spreading...

Thanks for the responses!

I just got 3 chicks today - 2 are only 1 week old but one of them is "a few weeks old". This one keeps flying out of the box I have her in! How should I keep her in the box with the heat lamp??